Star Wars Amstrad CPC

At last! The most famous coin-op Arcade Game and one of the most successful films of our era come together in this Domark publication. Faithful to the original, the home coumputer version of STAR WARS should win first place in any game players collection, and will always be the one you go back to time after time. The first scene is the Space Attack, with waves of hostile space-craft attacking your lonely but powerful ship.

You battle to the Deathstar, and once there fly close to the ground in a daring attempt to blast the space towers and flying stars, steering your way through the barrage. Finally, you emerge in the trench, jumping and ducking the stretch barriers and shooting the missle emplacements fastened to each side of the death defying walls.

There are many levels to the game with stirring music and speech synthsis, fast and furious action is guaranteed throughout. — Cassette cover

Star Wars is an arcade game produced by Atari Inc. and released in 1983. The game is a first person space simulator, simulating the attack on the Death Star from the final act of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics. This game was developed during the Golden Age of Arcade Games and is considered the #4 most popular game of all time according to Killer List of Video Games.

The game was originally designed for the arcade by Mike Hally. It was converted first by Parker Brothers in 1983 and 1984 to numerous 8-bit consoles and computers. These include the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, the Atari 8-bit family, ColecoVision and Commodore 64. The home console version for the ColecoVision was designed by Wendell Brown.

The same game was converted again, in 1987 and 1988, for the Amiga, Atari ST, Amstrad CPC, ZX Spectrum, Acorn Electron, BBC Micro and Enterprise 64; the game was also converted again for the Atari 8-bits and the Commodore 64. All conversions were developed by UK-based Vektor Grafix (the Atari 8-bit version by Zeppelin Games being an exception) and were published in Europe by Domark. That same year Brøderbund acquired the rights to develop Star Wars games from Lucasfilm. Brøderbund published the Apple II, Apple Macintosh, Commodore 64 and DOS versions of the arcade game in North America in 1988.

The Amiga and Atari ST versions are very similar to the arcade original. They allow the ability to use mouse control and feature digitized sound effects. The Macintosh version contains sampled speech from the films, but has no in-game music other than a monophonic theme during the "attract" mode.

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