I know, I know, you probably didn't find this review helpful. and yet is completely inappropriate for the subject matter. it's got goofy flying saucers, lots and lots of cheesecake, christopher lee losing every scrap of his dignity, tons of mind-controlled people acting really zombified and stupid, space battles that look like they were lifted straight out of "mars attacks!", possibly the most ridiculous costumes of all time, and the real coup de grace - one actually extraordinarily talented actress (Helen Shaver, the wife of the UFO researcher guy) caught in the middle of it all, trying valiantly to salvage this whole mess. And my mom was like, yeah, I don't know what to tell you. I was all, wow, that really sucked, mommy. Sid Meiers Starships (free version) download for Mac OS X Mac Games Strategy Sid Meiers Starships Sid Meiers Starships by Firaxis Games Download now from developers website 3.6 on 91 votes 0 /5 stars License: Commercial 16.46 Total downloads: 2 Latest version: 1. Believe it or not I remember seeing this thing 29 years ago when it came out. ![]() And the sadistic kid who squashes the tomato. And the overacting family in the huge car! "look! it's a flying saucer! For god's sake DON'T MAKE THEM ANGRY!!" And the robots who look like trash cans. Everybody was all, now we can finally achieve world peace, because there are pocket calculators. I rather would have thought that interplanetary trajectories would be a bit complicated for a pocket calculator, but what do I know? I remember when SI came out pocket calculators were a huge fad, along with digital watches. ![]() Fortunately my video store happens to have an old copy.) Wait till you see the part with the pocket calculator! In this movie a guy uses a 70s style pocket calculator to compute flightpaths for a flying saucer. Players also build telescopes, allowing them to view the. (It's out of circulation now and amazingly it's going for 150 bucks on amazon, this movie. A simple game that allows multiple players to colonize stars in a galaxy by building starships. This movie is completely hilarious! I can only hope warner pulled SI out of distribution because they're working on a 30th anniversary DVD edition with lots of making-of featurettes where the director details how much crack he was on while he was making it. I have to agree with the people who say this movie's bad, but disagree with the ones who say it isn't so bad it's good.
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