Air-Sea Battle

Cancelled arcade version

Game 7, Captain Seahawk, was ported to the arcades in 1978 by a team headed by Mike Albaugh. It was a 100% faithful port, including the lack of AI, and re-used the Destroyer cabinet. According to Albaugh's own telling, he and everyone else except the decision-makers at Atari were convinced that Captain Seahawk would make a poor arcade game. This turned out to be true: in the first week of testing it made about $25 (100 plays) and was cancelled.

Inspiration

Air-Sea Battle was based on the Atari coin-op game Anti-Aircraft.

Launch title

One of the nine games available for the Atari 2600 launch in 1977.