Star Ship
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This article is about the 1977 Atari 2600 videogame. For the vehicle for interstellar travel, see Starship. For 1977 Atari videogame, see Starship 1. For other uses, see Starship (disambiguation).
Star Ship is a first-person space combat simulator video game programmed by Bob Whitehead and published by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari VCS was released on September 11, 1977. Based on the Atari arcade game Starship 1, it was the first space-related game developed for the Atari VCS. The re-branded Sears TeleGames version is titled Outer Space.
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Developer(s) | Atari, Inc. |
Publisher(s) | Atari, Inc. |
Programmer(s) | Bob Whitehead[1] |
Platform(s) | Atari 2600 |
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Genre(s) | Space combat simulator |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
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Star Ship was removed from Atari's catalog in 1980.[3]