Looking for spaceship fight two-player minigame included in Amiga 500 workbench

https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1ieh0fo/looking_for_spaceship_fight_twoplayer_minigame/

created by eggbertbot on 31/01/2025 at 15:15 UTC

6 upvotes, 4 top-level comments (showing 4)

Hi, I am looking for any hints on a very simple minigame that was included in the Amiga workbench (1.2 or 1.3 I think). I think it was called "Space Ace". Two players would each steer a simple arrow "space ship" and shoot at each other. The great thing was that you could turn on "inertia" resulting in the spaceships becoming very difficult to steer.

I also remember that if you steered a spaceship off the screen edge, it would reappear on the opposing side.

Anybody have any pointers to this gem of my childhood?

Comments

Comment by mrmonkeysocks at 31/01/2025 at 20:10 UTC

3 upvotes, 0 direct replies

I'm not sure about being included with Workbench, but sounds a bit like Gravity Force 2. Maybe it could be the first one - I never played it.

Regardless, Gravity Force 2 was great; thanks for reminding me!

Comment by danby at 31/01/2025 at 15:47 UTC*

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Sounds like a two player Asteroid clone, maybe the PD 1989 space war.

https://www.lemonamiga.com/games/details.php?id=5062

But here's some others too

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/space-battle

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/amigoids

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/megaroids

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/cabaret-asteroids

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/hemroids

https://amiga.abime.net/games/view/stellaryx

Comment by GeordieAl at 31/01/2025 at 21:20 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

No games included on Workbench disks. The game sounds a lot like Space Wars

Comment by ascaria at 01/02/2025 at 02:30 UTC

1 upvotes, 1 direct replies

Could be Turbo/Turbu Raketti? I played that game forever back then. So simple. So addictive.