2D Space Fleet Combat

I'll take a guess:

http://www.windowsgames.co.uk/critical.html

HEY!!! I was just thinking about this! I think. Was it where you had a ship, then you would have a certain amount of energy and you would say "shields are 200" then you would order your ship to turn x degrees and then you could put x amount of energy into a shot. If the other guys shields where not set high enough then boom.

Anyway it was just a simple text program and I have no idea what the name is, but I'm looking.

Charvel, that's it! Wow, can't believe you found it that quickly! Man, gotta download and get in on this...

Thanks for the try mbaron, and plus karma to both of you! Any other games like this one out there?

I'm glad you found your game!

Some others you might want to try

Battleships Forever

Space Combat

Warzone 2100

Vega Strike

Check here for lists of free games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeware_games

The Starfleet Command series, specifically, the second of the series, are some of the best (IMO, the best) 2-axis space combat games. If you see them in a bargain bin, they're worth a try at the least.

I remember there was a semi-recent game that was more or less HOMM in space, but it get pretty poor reviews. Let me see if I can dig it up..

Edit: here it is: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/spaceforcecaptains/index.html

Without looking at any data not on this page, the game in question sounds a lot like a miniatures game I play sometimes called 'Full Thrust.' - No comments from the peanut gallery, please.

An upcoming game ya'll might be interested in:

Gratuitous Space Battles
The idea is that you outfit and deploy a fleet of ships and watch them blow stuff up.

Thanks guys! A lot of these games look interesting. I just spent a few hours trying out battleships forever, and that is a pretty sweet game! Not easy, though!

Starflight?

I don't know about getting the originals, but there is a fan made game at: http://www.starflightgame.com/

You have to use their forums to find the download; I can't remember the link. It's an okay game, but mostly it went unfinished (plenty of gameplay still) as the dev team had other things to do. Even still, it's open source now and hopefully someone will finish it.

Starflight - that brings back memories:

Sitting in my basement jamming to ACDC's Back in Black album while tediously trying to find that next deposit of Molybdenum to mine.

This game actually looks kinda interesting!