Space Attack
Mattel’s MO was to make, slightly inferior perhaps, ports of their Intellivision games and release them on the 2600 to entice people over to the Intellivision. Most of the games Mattel ported were simple…
Space Attack is a shooter developed by APh Technological Consulting, released 1 July 1982 on Atari 2600.
What Space Attack is
Space Attack is a shooter game developed by APh Technological Consulting and released in 1982. It was published by M Network. It is available on Atari 2600 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mattel’s MO was to make, slightly inferior perhaps, ports of their Intellivision games and release them on the 2600 to entice people over to the Intellivision. Most of the games Mattel ported were simple shooters that didn’t require much use of the Intellivision’s keypad controller space battle which was renamed space attack on the 2600 is the major exception. Space battle used eleven of the twelve keypad buttons and somehow that all had to be condensed into a single button controller.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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