Omega Race
Set in the year 2003, the game involves using a spaceship to destroy enemy droid ships. The player's ship is controlled with a spinner to rotate the ship, a button for thrusting, and a button for firing…
Omega Race is an arcade developed by Arcade Engineering, released 31 December 1981 on Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Arcade and Commodore C64/128/MAX.
What Omega Race is
Omega Race is an arcade game developed by Arcade Engineering and released in 1981. It was published by CBS Electronics. It is available on Atari 2600, ColecoVision, Arcade, Commodore C64/128/MAX and Commodore VIC-20.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Set in the year 2003, the game involves using a spaceship to destroy enemy droid ships. The player's ship is controlled with a spinner to rotate the ship, a button for thrusting, and a button for firing lasers. The enemies that the player must destroy or avoid are drone ships, commander ships, two types of space mines, and shooting star ships. The ship bounces off an invisible barrier on the edges of the screen that briefly appears when hit. By default, Extra ships are awarded at 40,000 and 100,000 points, but this can be changed by the machine's owner.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
Omega Race launched on 31 December 1981, within three weeks of Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf and Robotron: 2084.
Released around the same time: Ms. Pac-Man, Zaxxon, Gorf, Robotron: 2084.
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