Star Raiders

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Description

As the pilot of an interstellar starship, your mission is to destroy all enemy spacecraft on the galactic chart and prevent them from destroying your starbases. There are three different types of fighters roaming throughout the galaxy; cruisers, fighters, and basestars. With the help of your galactic map, you can find the sectors of the galaxy where these fighters are located and then warp there to destroy them. When all of the fighters in a sector are destroyed, you can warp to a new location for the next battle. Be sure to keep an eye on your starship's energy level; warping to new locations, being hit by enemy fire, or colliding with an asteroid will drain your energy. If you completely run out of energy, your starship will be destroyed, however you can warp back to a starbase to refuel at any time. Returning to a starbase will also repair other types of damage your starship can receive, such as faulty engines, loss of your shields, and faulty photon torpedoes. When all of the enemy ships have been destroyed, you win the game and receive a rank.

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Alternate Titles

• "ST Star Raiders" -- Atari ST Title

Part of the Following Groups

• Gaming Service: Game Room
• Genre: Simulation - Space combat
• Star Raiders series

User Reviews

Original pseudo-3D space shooter	Atari 8-bit	JSV (22)
Visually dull, but fantastic and challenging gameplay	Atari 5200	Servo (57416)
Quite simply, The best first-person space combat game of it's time.	Atari 5200	Brian Pendell (18)
Mindblowing for its time!	Atari 8-bit	TroyW (21)

Critic Reviews

The Atari Times	Atari 8-bit	Mar 30, 2009	100 out of 100	100
Electronic Fun with Computers & Games	Atari 8-bit	Dec, 1982	4 out of 4	100
The Atari Times	Atari ST	Feb 22, 2005	90 out of 100	90
Tilt	Atari ST	Apr, 1987	16 out of 20	80
The Video Game Critic	Atari 5200	Dec 31, 2002	C+	58
ST Action	Atari ST	Aug, 1988	53 out of 100	53
The Video Game Critic	Atari 2600	Aug 24, 2003	C	50
neXGam	Atari 2600	Jun 27, 2013	4.7 out of 10	47
Woodgrain Wonderland	Atari 2600	Mar 08, 2018	C-	42

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Trivia

Development

Star Raiders was one of the absolutely first titles for Atari's 400/800 line of computer. It was in fact programmed by one of the chip designers as a side project, and he never received any royalties for his work.

Extras

The Atari 2600 version of Star Raiders was packaged with the Atari Video Touch Pad. Here is a picture of the Video Touch Pad at AtariAge.com. It also came with a comic book of Atari Force #3. Here is that comic at AtariAge.com.

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