Space War

This article is about the Atari 2600 game. For the original PDP-1 game, see Spacewar! For warfare in space, see Space warfare. For other uses, see Spacewar.

Space War is a video game cartridge released by Atari, Inc. in 1978 for the Atari Video Computer System (renamed to the Atari 2600 in 1982). The game is a version of Spacewar!, the 1962 computer game by Steve Russell.^[3] It was released by Sears as Space Combat, for its Atari compatible Tele-Games system.^[4] A version for the Atari Lynx was planned but never released.^[5][6]

Space War
Developer(s)	Atari, Inc.[1]
Publisher(s)	Atari, Inc.
Programmer(s)	Ian Shepard[2]
Platform(s)	Atari 2600
Release	NA: 1978[1]
Genre(s)	Multidirectional shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player, two-player

Variations

The cartridge includes 17 game variations. Variations 1–13 are duels between two ships and 14 to 17 are for one player. In some of the variations the ships fight near a planet which has gravitational attraction.^[7]