Classic Game Room HD - SPACE WAR for Atari 2600 review

Classic Game Room was the FIRST classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999. Returning in 2008 with new episodes, Classic Game Room breaks out a review of SPACE WAR for the Atari 2600. SPACE WAR is an old school game, so old school this was made before you were. Back in the late 70's the country was rockin' out to disco and Star Wars, and this game was inspired by both. More Star Wars though, which came out in 1977 and launched actors like Chewbacca and Darth Vader to world wide fame. This game was release in 1978.

This is old-school, retro, vintage, arcade gaming at its finest. Two player action, you pilot space ships (the same ones from Asteroids I think) and shoot at each other. It's basically Combat in space, or Battlestar Galactica (the old series) mixed with the A-Team.

Be sure to watch the original Classic Game Room episodes. Classic Game Room was the original classic video game review show on the Internet in 1999-2000, now on DVD. The HD series is reviewing PS3, Genesis, NES, Atari and Xbox 360. Spacewar.

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[atm94404]

Space War's gameplay is directly based on Spacewar! which was created in 1961. Bushnell used that as a basis for Computer Space (the game before Pong). This 2600 game is based on those two games and not really inspired by Star Wars.

[InecomCompany]

That's great information, thank you! Star Wars got people really excited about space back then and heavily influenced graphic design, pop culture and the decision for companies to greenlight products like video games and movies (Star Trek 1, Battlestar Galactica, etc..) -mark

[ThatsAfterBlush]

the space ships look like doritos.

[OldSchoolGameRoom]

I bet they used the engine of Combat ;-)

[vigo894]

@kleemable= Yeah, you would know, cupcake.

[nick6var]

@atm94404 I first found this in a thrift shop years ago and thought the same thing, until I read articles on the history of gaming. But you got to admit that if there was no Star Wars, then there wouldn't have been much interest in this game. It doesn't hurt that the ships bear the same wedge shape as the star destroyers, either.

[nick6var]

@atm94404 I first found this in a thrift shop years ago and thought the same thing. But you got to admit that if there was no Star Wars, then there wouldn't have been much interest in this game. It doesn't hurt that the ships bear the same wedge shape as the star destroyers, either.

[TheKubes101]

@kleemable troll

[kleemable]

FAKE AND GAY!

[MattTheSaiyan]

"Spacewar!" took a whole room-filling computer in the early 1960s. By the late-1970s it could fit on a cartridge for a home video game console. By the mid-1990s freeware clones were common and made their way to the series of tubes to be downloaded in a couple minutes over a dial-up connection. Now freeware clones can be played online (with broadband) with no wait. Amazing how much tech can change over the years! What's also amazing is that it's still rather playable!