 Science fiction writer Jerry Pournelle named Starflight his game of the month for January 1987 , stating that it was " as much a career as a game " and " fascinating " . Fellow writer Orson Scott Card wrote , " Starflight is the first science fiction computer game that actually gives you something of the experience of roaming through the galaxy . ... I have found this game obsessively fascinating — and the graphics and player interface are superb " . He called it the " Star Wars of science fiction games . <unk> designed and programmed ... the standard against which all other space @-@ exploration games must be measured " . Compute ! listed it in May 1988 as one of " Our Favorite Games " , stating that " Starflight captures the feel of a certain type of science fiction ... the game can take hundreds of hours to play fully , yet those hours are anything but boring " . 
