Stardust (game)
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Stardust is a shoot-em-up computer game for the Amiga 500, released by the Finnish company Bloodhouse in 1993. The game is essentially an Asteroids clone with modern enhancements, such as power-ups, shields, vivid use of colours and the occasional tunnel section. The game's graphics drew critical acclaim for the aforementioned tunnels and the use of ray-tracing. The company has since merged with Terramarque to form Housemarque.
In a not untypical bout of Finnish humour, the developers gave several things ludicrous names in their own language, which was (and still is) highly obscure in the international market. The damsel in distress is named after a brand of butter, and the final confrontation takes place over the planet Imatra.
An almost totally rewritten enhanced version was released for the Amiga 1200 and AmigaCD32 as Super Stardust.