Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter video game released in arcades in 1983 by Atari. Star Wars was converted by Parker Brothers in 1984 to the Atari 2600. Star Wars gameplay Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (“Red Five”), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The controls consist of a … Read more
In the Atari 2600 game Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, players take on the role of Luke Skywalker, piloting a snowspeeder to combat Imperial AT-AT walkers on the planet Hoth. The goal is to delay the walkers from destroying the power generator at the Rebel’s Echo Base. Various difficulty levels exist, with factors such … Read more
Stargunner is a horizontally scrolling shooter for the Atari 2600, where the objective is to stop the invasion of the Sphyzygi and score as many points as possible. Players do this by avoiding bombs and shooting down alien saucers and creatures, such as space buzzies and squeezers. However, players must avoid colliding with them or … Read more
Starmaster is s similar to Atari 8-bit family game Star Raiders. The game never ported to other consoles. Starmaster gameplay The opening jingle of Starmaster features Also Sprach Zarathustra, which was used as the theme for 2001: A Space Odyssey. The player pilots a starfighter, with the purpose of destroying a number of enemy ships … Read more
Strawberry Shortcake: Musical Match-Ups, released in 1983, is a puzzle video game for the Atari 2600, developed and published by Parker Brothers. Players are challenged to reassemble scrambled Strawberryland characters within a specified time limit, as indicated by Mr. Sun moving eastward at the top of the screen. When a character is correctly pieced together, … Read more
PAL-Release – Quelle-variant is a BitCorp-clone; also known e.g. as Ataque Laser, Innerspace, Laser Volley, Laser Gate, Laser Gates
In 1958, a horror science fiction film called “Space Master X-7” was released in the United States. Around twenty-five years later, in 1983, Fox’s video game publishing division announced a Space Master X-7 video game for the Atari 2600. The game was not based on the original film, as the programmer behind the project, David … Read more