Developer(s) Atari, Inc. Platform(s) Atari 2600 Genre(s) Shoot 'em up | Publisher(s) Atari, Inc. Release NA: September 11, 1977 | |
Star Ship is a first-person shooter video game cartridge developed by Atari, Inc. for its Video Computer System (later known as the Atari 2600). The game was one of the nine launch titles offered when the Atari 2600 launched on September 11,1977. It was designed and programmed by Bob Whitehead. It was based on the Atari arcade game Starship 1.
The re-branded Sears TeleGames version was titled Outer Space.
The game was the first space-related game developed for the Atari VCS. The player(s) used the joystick controller to achieve one of the following objectives:
Reception
Star Ship was reviewed in Video magazine as part of a general review of the Atari VCS where it was given the low review score of 4 out of 10, and its individual games were described as "look[ing] nice but [being] hard to get a handle on".