Space Duel
| Space Duel | |
|---|---|
 American arcade flyer | |
| Developer(s) | Atari Inc. |
| Publisher(s) | Atari Inc. |
| Designer(s) | Rick Maurer Owen Rubin Steve Calfee Dave Sheppard |
| Platform(s) | Arcade |
| Release | 1982 |
| Genre(s) | Multi-directional shooter |
Space Duel is an arcade game released in 1982 by Atari Inc. It is a direct descendant of the original Asteroids, with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. Space Duel is the first and only multi-player vector game by Atari. When Asteroids Deluxe did not sell well, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success.[citation needed] There were no contemporary home ports.
The player has five buttons: two to rotate the ship left or right, one to shoot, one to activate the thruster, and one for force field. Shooting all objects on the screen completes a level. Space Duel, Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe and Gravitar all used similar 5-button controlling system.
Legacy
Space Duel is included within the Atari Anthology for Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation version of Atari Anniversary Edition. A port of Space Duel was released on the Atari Flashback 2, reproducing only the single-player mode.
David Plummer holds the official world record for this game with a maximum 623,720 points.[1]
A Space Duel cabinet is featured on the cover for The Who's 1982 album It's Hard.
References
External links
- Space Duel at the Killer List of Videogames
- Space Duel at the Arcade History database
- Owen Rubin's (the creator's) home page