Starflight II.

Excellent sci-fi adventure/rpg title that centered around the travails of your ship and its crew as you attempted to defeat the evil foozle and save the galaxy.

SF II sported tens of hours of fun, addictive gameplay with a climactic final battle. However, the ending made me want to spit. Upon defeating the evil overlord race and liberating an ancient enslaved one you were greeted with a single low resolution pic of what must have been one of the developers or one of the developers' wives/girlfriends wearing a scarf on her head accompanied by a mindless paragraph of text that read something like, "Thank you so much for what you've done. You are great. You are really great for what you did! Thanks!" Now given that this was an 8 bit title developed for PCs (I played it on my beloved Amiga 500) I wasn't expecting a Cecil B. DeMille rendition of an endgame animation sequence but it would have been nice to get a simple sequence of pics & text accompanied by a nice little musical piece... you know, to wrap things up and give me a nice pat on the back for a job well done.

Thankfully Star Control II came along and set things right. SC 2 took the combat aspect of the original SC and combined it with the strategic/exploration aspect of the Starflight series. Great game with a great ending (and the Amiga version totally shamed the PC release)!