Started playing #msdos 's Starflight 2 and it's incredible how addictive it is, even if the core gameplay is so repetitive. The sense of exploration (particularly of the planet surface) really sucks me in. I wonder if a modern game implementation of the game would work. I might try to create a small prototype, perhaps in text mode to check if the idea works. I'd add the creation of trade routes between discovered settlements and space combat would work like in Star Traders: Frontier.