Space Wars
Released September 1977 on arcade video game machine, Nintendo Switch and Vectrex
- Developer
- Cinematronics
- Publisher
- Cinematronics
- Made in
- El Cajon, United States
- Genre
- Shooter, Arcade
- Themes
- Action, Science fiction
About Space Wars
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 disappear and reappear elsewhere on the playfield at random).
Summary: IGDB.
Release dates
| arcade video game machine | September 1977 |
|---|---|
| Nintendo Switch | later, date unknown |
| Vectrex | later, date unknown |
Screenshots
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