Space Wars

Released

2018-07-23

User rating

0.00 / 5

Genres

Casual, Indie, Action, Simulation

Platforms

PC

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Game details · IGDB

Space Wars is an early vector graphics arcade game. It is based on Spacewar!, a PDP-1 program. It was ported to the Vectrex in 1982. Space Wars was the brainchild of Larry Rosenthal, an MIT graduate who was fascinated with the original Spacewar! and developed his own custom hardware and software so that he could play the game. Cinematronics worked with Rosenthal to produce the Space Wars system. Two players controlled different ships. One button rotated the ship left, another rotated the ship right, one engaged thrust, one fired a shell, and one entered hyperspace (which causes the ship to …

Released

1977

Genres

Shooter, Arcade

Platforms

Arcade, Vectrex

Game modes

Multiplayer

Developer

Cinematronics, Cinematronics

Publisher

GCE, Cinematronics, Taito, Sega, S.A. SONIC

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