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Space Attack

Space Attack is an arcade shooting game, released by Sega for VIC Dual hardware in 1979. In the US it is thought to have been renamed Super Space Attack - whether there are in fact two separate games is…

1 February 1979

Space Attack is a shooter developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd., released 1 February 1979 on Arcade.

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What Space Attack is

Space Attack is a shooter game developed by Sega Enterprises, Ltd. and released in 1979. It was published by Gremlin Industries. It is available on Arcade only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Space Attack is an arcade shooting game, released by Sega for VIC Dual hardware in 1979. In the US it is thought to have been renamed Super Space Attack - whether there are in fact two separate games is currently unknown, but the two are extremely similar and "Super" is often dropped in internal Super Space Attack documents. It's a Space Invaders clone and is almost identical to Taito's classic. It is completely identical to another VIC Dual Space Invaders clone, Alpha Fighter, sharing full color graphics and a "bonus" round (in which the saucer briefly descends from the top of the screen after clearing the rest of usual set of invaders). Space Attack has a different set of graphics to…
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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.

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When did Space Attack come out?
Space Attack was released on 1 February 1979 for Arcade.

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