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60% Daily Free Games Sound POKEY x 2 Initial release date February 1982 Publisher Atari | 5/5 Emuparadise Cabinet standard, cocktail Display Color Vector Developer Atari CPU MOS Technology 6502 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Designer(s) Rick Maurer, Owen Rubin, Steve Calfee, Dave Sheppard Genre(s) Multi-directional shooter Similar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Atari space duel arcade longplay single ship
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.
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- Atari space duel arcade longplay single ship
- Atari space duel arcade longplay linked ship
- Legacy
- In popular culture
- References
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.
Atari space duel arcade longplay linked ship
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. Space Duel was made available on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Windows-based PCs in May 2010.
David Plummer holds the official world record for this game with a maximum 623,720 points.
In popular culture
A Space Duel cabinet is featured on the album cover for The Who's It's Hard.
