Space War

This article is about the Atari 2600 game. For the original PDP-1 game, see Spacewar! For warfare in space, see Space warfare. For other uses, see Spacewar.

Space War
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc. [1]
Publisher(s)	Atari, Inc.
Programmer(s)	Ian Shepard [2]
Platform(s)	Atari 2600
Release	NA: October 1978 [3]
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, multiplayer

Space War is a multidirectional shooter video game released by Atari, Inc. in 1978 for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982). The game is a version of Spacewar! , the 1962 computer game by Steve Russell. ^[4] It was released by Sears as Space Combat for its Atari compatible Tele-Games system. ^[5] A version for the Atari Lynx was planned but never released. ^{[6] [7]}

Variations

The cartridge includes 17 game variations. Variations 1–13 are duels between two ships and 14 to 17 are for one player. In some of the variations the ships fight near a planet which has gravitational attraction. ^[8]

References

1. Space War at GameFAQs
2. Hague, James. "The Giant List of Classic Game Programmers".
3. "Atari VCS game release dates". Atari Archive.
4. http://www.mobygames.com/game/atari-2600/space-war/trivia Moby Games. "Game Trivia for Space War" (retrieved on March 9th, 2009).
5. "Atari 2600 Space War". AtariAge.
6. "Reportaje - Lynx - La mejor portátil que Atari no supo vender". Última Generación (in Spanish). No. 6. MV Editores. September 1995. pp. 68–73.
7. "Все игры » Atari Lynx » Space War (Beta)". tv-games.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2018-08-12. Retrieved 2019-04-21.
8. http://www.atariage.com/box_page.html?SoftwareLabelID=470 Archived 2014-08-17 at the Wayback Machine Atari Age. "Atari 2600 Boxes - Space War" (retrieved on March 9, 2009).