Star Ship

This article is about the 1978 Atari 2600 videogame. For the vehicle for interstellar travel, see Starship. For 1976 Atari videogame, see Starship 1. For other uses, see Starship (disambiguation).

Star Ship
Star Ship Cover art of Star Ship
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc.
Publisher(s)	Atari, Inc.
Platforms	Atari 2600
Release date(s)
Genre(s)	Shoot 'em up
Mode(s)	Single-player

Star Ship is a First-person shooter video game cartridge developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 went on sale in January 1978. It was designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead. It was based on the Atari arcade game Starship 1.

The re-branded Sears TeleGames version was titled "Outer Space" The game was the first space-related game developed for the Atari VCS. The player(s) used the joystick controller to achieve one of the following objectives:

• Destroying as many spacecraft and robots as possible within a time limit, all while dodging asteroids.
• Alternating between avoiding enemy fire from spacecraft and firing at the opponent-controlled craft (human or computer).
• Avoiding asteroids and other varied space objects to cover the greatest distance possible.
• Landing the space module on a lunar landing pad. The moon can either be stationary or be computer- or human opponent-controlled.

Star Ship was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs on December 22, 2010.

Reception

Street Racer was reviewed in Video magazine as part of a general review of the Atari VCS where it was given the low review score of 4 out of 10, and its individual games were described as "look[ing] nice but [being] hard to get a handle on".

External links

• Star Ship guide at StrategyWiki
• Star Ship at MobyGames
• Star Ship at AtariAge