Dark space
Other (objects, etc.) theme
Outer space is realistically depicted as dark/black place instead of the usual colorful juice spill.
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This is in contrast to the "norm" where space is depicted like it's seen in those computer enhanced pictures where nebulae normally invisible to human eye are brought to visible light range (and for some reason games tend to have these nebulae everywhere).
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Games by year
The first Dark space video game was released in 1977.
Atari, Domark and Origin Systems published most of these games.
Platforms
| MS-DOS |  | 35 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | | 33 | |
| Windows | | 19 | |
| Mac OS X | | 8 | |
| Amiga | | 7 | |
| Arcade | | 6 | |
| BeOS | | 6 | |
| C64 | | 5 | |
| Amstrad CPC | | 5 | |
| Atari 5200 | | 5 | |
| Apple II E | | 4 | |
| NES | | 4 | |
| ZX Spectrum | | 4 | |
| Atari ST | | 3 | |
| Mac OS Classic | | 3 | |
| VIC-20 | | 3 | |
| Atari 400/800 | | 3 | |
| Zaurus | | 2 | |
| Atari 2600 | | 2 | |
| C16/Plus4 | | 2 | |
| iOS | | 2 | |
| Unix | | 2 | |
| X68000 | | 2 | |
| PS | | 2 | |
| Atari 7800 | | 2 | |
| BSD | | 2 | |
| Mega-CD | | 1 | |
| Win3.1 | | 1 | |
| Android | | 1 | |
| WinCE | | 1 |