Early 3D game pioneer Graeme Baird dead at 63
Starstrike squeezed 8-bit CPUs hard enough to bring a Star Wars-style 3D shoot-em-up to home computers in the mid-1980s. But it was Starstrike II, featuring solid polygons, original spaceship designs and a more detailed campaign, that blew me away. It was the first game my parents bought me on the Amstrad CPC I’d gotten f…
