Since a number of people have expressed an interest in compiling a list of Glide games, I thought I would share some specific information on a few of the more obscure Glide games that I own.  Please do the same for games that you have.

The second game that I will spotlight is the 1999 title Sinistar Unleashed published by THQ.  This space arcade game draws from the storyline used in the Williams arcade game Sinistar from the early 1980s although the appearance of the two games is quite different.  Digital Eclipse released PC ports of the original Sinistar and other Williams games (Defender, Robotron, Joust, Defender II, and Bubbles) in the compilation CD-ROM "Williams Arcade Classics" which was published in 1996.  Sinistar Unleashed has gorgeous graphics, although a number of reviewers criticized the game for being too short or repetitive.


According to the readme.txt file:

If you have a 3dfx board, choose "3dfx Voodoo" for your setting. Sinistar:
Unleashed is optimized for Glide.


The English FAQ indicates the following:

Why do things sometimes look funny when I run my Voodoo Board under Direct3D?

Textures sometimes display incorrectly when you run any Voodoo board (Voodoo Graphics, Voodoo2, Voodoo Banshee, Voodoo3) using Direct3D drivers. The solution is to use the 3dfx Glide drivers instead of Direct3D. See the Video Mode Selector section on how to change your drivers setting.


What 3D Chipsets and Drivers have been tested with the game?

Chipset                          Driver Provider   Date        Driver Version      
ATI Rage Pro Turbo          ATI Technology    5-12-98      4.10.2307      
Matrox Millenium G200 AGP   Matrox Graphics   11-4-98      4.11.01.1000      
Riva 128                  nVidia            10-20-98      4.10.01.0043      
Riva TNT                  nVidia            11-17-98      4.10.01.0048      
S3 Hercules Savage 3D       S3 Incorporated   12-8-98      4.11.01.4005-6.13.05      
Voodoo Graphics                  3dfx Interactive  5-11-98      Glide version 2.46  Glide3 version 3.02      
Voodoo Graphics                  3dfx Interactivve 7-7-98      DirectX version 4.10.01.0016      
Voodoo Graphics                  3dfx Interactive  7-7-98      Glide version 2.46      
Voodoo Graphics                  3dfx Interactive  11-14-98      Glide version 2.211      
Voodoo2                          3dfx Interactive  1-22-99      Glide version 2.54  Glide3 version 3.01      
Voodoo2                          3dfx Interactive  1-22-99      Direct3D version 4.11.01.0350-2.18      
Voodoo2                          3dfx Interactive  1-22-99      Glide version 2.50      
Voodoo2                          3dfx Interactive  1-22-99      Direct3D version 4.10.01.0094-2.16      


A demo (54 megabytes) and a patch for the retail version of the game (4.6 megabytes) are available at the following site:

  http://www.3dgamers.com/games/sinistarunleashed/


For reference purposes, my system has the following components:

  Soyo SY-7VCAE Motherboard
  Intel Pentium III  933 MHz Socket 370 Processor
  3dfx Voodoo5 64MB AGP Graphics Adapter
  Creative Labs Sound Blaster Live! Platinum (Model SB4760P)
  256 MB SDRAM
  Microsoft Windows 98 SE