---
title: Space War
tags:
- duel
- space
years:
- '1977'
params:
  image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_box5_m.jpg
  specs:
  - label: year of release
    value: '1977'
  - label: companies
    value: Fairchild
  - label: type
    value: game
  - label: media
    value: cartridge
  - label: systems
    value: Fairchild Channel F
  - label: number of players
    value: 2 players (versus)
  screenshots:
  - title: ready to start ?
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_spacewar_s1.png
  - title: search and destroy the other space ship
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_spacewar_s3.png
  - title: blue player shot the red ship
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_spacewar_s4.png
  - title: don't touch the mines!
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_spacewar_s2.png
  - title: ''
    subtitle: ''
    text: ''
    image: /media/museum/software/fairchild_channelf_box5.jpg
  machines:
  - /museum/fairchild-channel-f
  company: /companies/fairchild
  oc_id: 96
  source:
    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230206010002/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/software_detail.asp?id=96
    date: '2023-02-06'
---

"Zap! Your laser fires, but the other starship scoots behind a star back to base for more energy units -- then back to battle!"

Space War is a space duel inspired somehow by the original Spacewar! game programed on a DEC PDP-1 in 1962.

But the Channel F version is much more simpler. There is no gravity evolved. Spaceships are static if you don't move them. You can only fire left or right in a straight shot. It's not possible to fly around the screen - disappear on the left to reappear on the right.

The goal is to turn the energy level of your oponent to 0 by hitting it with your laser. Hopefully, 2 starbases are located on the playfield to replenish your enerly level by flying over them.