Summary
Excellent 2600 sound and great graphics, the best of the first star war games
The Good
This game has 4 sections, first you have to navigate through holes in the shield; it is a good 2-D spaceship navigation game (aka asteroids). Then you traverse the shield and need to shoot into the death star which is now big. If you can fire into the center, it glows and fires fireballs at you which you must avoid, and then explodes. The explosion sound is excellent as are the other ship sounds. One of the absolute most sophisticated 2600/VCS games.
The Bad
no scrolling. Small playing field (lower third of the screen) as lots is happening on top 2/3 of screen.
The Bottom Line
Small playing field, excellent graphics by Robin McDaniels (EggoMania, Gopher, Name This Game, Squeeze Box, Smurf Rescue, Little Computer People) who was one of the first artists to work on games, who learned her craft animating the old pixellated Spectacolor times square animated sign. Produced by Wickstead Design of NJ about 1986. Yours truly did the sound.
