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* ''[[Star Wars|Star Wars: Starfighter]]''
* The ''[[Colony Wars]]'' series
* ''[[X (Videovideo Gamegame)|X3]]: Terran Conflict'', which also features a variation, in which star flecks are accompanied by region-themed clumps of other stuff, such as red nebula gas.
* ''No Gravity'' to a slightly painful degree, where they can also be found on planet-bound levels.
* ''[[Eve Online]]''
* The upcoming ''[[Black Prophecy]]'' uses black chunks of space debris and a set of [[Speed Stripes]] encircling the center of the screen.
* ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' had this in at least the first two games.
* ''[[Free Space]]'' calls it "motion debris". The upgraded FS2_Open engine has the option to disable it for the sake of realism.
* ''[[Freelancer]]''
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* All three ''[[Escape Velocity]]'' games do this.
** [[Naev]] even tells you in the tutorial that this can be used to gauge your speed. (That was before they changed the star field to a visible background and gave you a speedometer on the HUD but you can still see stars slightly.)
* A rare but iconic television version is popular in [[Star Trek: theThe Next Generation]]. Whenever a scene shows a window or exterior view while the ship is moving at sublight speeds, the star field moves slowly but very noticeably in the background. This is made possible by a large roll of black fabric marked with a random collection of pinpricked holes, which is then spooled very slowly and heavily backlit while filming, giving the audience a field of hundreds of stars while providing the illusion of the Enterprise in motion. Obviously, then can lead to continuity errors, when the star field moves in a direction opposite the ship's course at the time, or they do not show a planet the ship is orbiting, and so on.
 
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