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name	publisher(developer)	year	description
Deepspace	Creative Computing	1979
Star Raiders	Atari	1979	[4]* [48]*8k cartridge comes in 2 common variations ©1980 (plain and "Star Raiders" labels). The very first 3D space shooter game. It included multiple enemy types, starbases, damage control, and various viewing modes. Your objective was to hyper-jump between sectors in the galaxy to attack enemy Zylon ships before they have the chance to destroy your friendly starbases. A classic! Trivia: Doug Neubauer was a chip designer at Atari, not a game programmer. He created Star Raiders in his spare time and never received compensation or official credit for the additional work. The positions of all moving objects, including explosions and up to 64 particle debris are fully calculated in 3D DN wanted to include sub maps, planet landings, surface strafing and a trench shootout (Star Wars style) but ran out of memory. DN would eventually create a sequel, [game=#41988]Solaris[/game] (for Atari 2600), that included everything but the 3D explosions. Most agree that it was a vast improvement over the still impressive original despite the 2600's inferior specifications. [Zerothis]
Asteroids	Atari	1981	CXL4013 8k cartridge. Common. Uses joystick. 1 player, 2 players, 3 players, or 4 players simultaneous. 3 or 4 players require 4 port machines (400/800). [Zerothis]
Galactic Quest	Crystalware	1981	An excellent combination of Star Trek and Space Trader. Battle the animated Vegan fighters as you warp from galaxy to galaxy. At the same time, you may land on and trade with hundreds of planets. Super hires graphics and lots of sound. This has been one of our most popular games. $29.95/1 disk
Invasion Orion	Automated Simulations	1981
Race in Space	ANALOG Software	1981
Shadow Hawk One	Horizon Simulations	1981
Star Trek III	Adventure International	1981
Asteroid Miners	MMG Micro Software	1982
Astro Chase	First Star Software	1982	[125]* [4]*1190 16k cartridge is rare. May not run on XL/XE machines without a translator.
Battle Trek	Voyager Software	1982
Galaxian	Atari	1982	CXL4024 8k cartridge 1982. RX8024 8k cartridge 1986.
Galaxy!	Avalon Hill	1982
Moonbase Io	PDI Program Design	1982	[125]***This cassette game makes use of the only advantage that cassette loading has. While the game is loading from the right sound channel, the game's story and instructions can be listened to from the left channel. John Konopa won an Arkie award for this game.
Shootout at the OK Galaxy	Avalon Hill (Microcomputer Games)	1982	The Atari 8-bit, Apple ][, Commodore PET, TRS-80, and Tandy Coco version are all available as a single purchase on a single cassette.
Tact Trek	Atari Program Exchange (Atari)	1982	This game makes use of the Atari 8-bit's ability to mix graphics modes. Which is not unique. However, most games that do this divide the screen horizontally, so that graphics are on top and a 'text bar' on the bottom, or perhaps a text bar on top, or both. This game puts a graphics widows in the upper left corner of the screen. This requires switching modes halfway through each scanline. Not particularly impressive as this is an intended function for the platform. But this game shows good use of this feature.
Cosmic Balance II	SSI	1983
Final Orbit	Sirius Software	1983	3300? 8k cartridge (4k cartridge also?). Rare.
Hyperblast!	English Software;Dynamics Marketing	1983
Space War	Atari Program Exchange	1983
Starbase Fighter	Gentry Software	1983
The Cosmic Balance	SSI	1983	[48]
Universe	Omnitrend Software	1983	A simulation/adventure game where you take the role of a beginning starship captain. [Jacquismo]
Gyruss	Parker Brothers	1984	1280 16k cartridge. Rare.
Star Wars: The Arcade Game	Parker Brothers	1984	1340 16k cartridge. Uncommon.
The Halley Project: A Mission In Our Solar System	Mindscape (Tom Snyder Productions)	1985
Star Fleet I: The War Begins!	Interstel (Cygnus Studios)	1986
The Comet Game	Firebird	1986
Laser Strike	Compute	1986
Star Raiders II	Atari	1987	[4]* [33]*RX8078 32k cartridge. 2 uncommon variations exist that are "XE" marketed (rounded and squared carts). There is also a DX5084 48K disk version in "XL" packaging. The cartridges reportedly work on 16k machines also. [Zerothis]
Stratosphere	Players	1987
Star Wars	Domark	1988
Cosmic Pirate	Byte Back (MC Lothlorien)	1989
Speed Zone	Mastertronic (PAL Developments)	1989

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