website/content/software/space-war.md

title, tags, years, params

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