Star Ship
Star Ship is one of the Atari 2600's launch titles. It's a port of Starship 1 and Lunar Lander, with several variations.
- Games 1-4: Just like Starship 1. Fly through space and shoot enemy ships while dodging asteroids.
- Games 5-9: A Player Versus Player variation of Starship 1, where one player controls the ship and tries to shoot a "Space Module" controlled by the other player.
- Games 10-11: "Warp Drive". Fly through space and cover as much distance as possible without hitting asteroids.
- Games 12-14: Lunar Lander, though without the physics.
- Games 15-17: Two-player Lunar Lander, one player controls the lander and one player controls the moon.
Not to be confused with anything else of the same name.
Tropes used in Star Ship include:
- Asteroid Thicket: Games 1-4, 6-11, 13-14, and 16-17.
- Beeping Computers
- First-Person Shooter: Games 1-9. The first Atari 2600 FPS.
- The Golden Age of Video Games
- Invisibility Cloak: The Space Module in the two-player Starship 1 games.
- No Plot, No Problem
- Player Versus Player: Games 5-9 and 15-17.
- Ragdoll Physics: Unfortunately averted in the Lunar Lander games. You just move the lander around the screen with the joystick, and fire the rocket to make contact with the moon.
- Scoring Points
- Side View: The Lunar Lander games.
- Timed Mission: 2:16 per round in one player games. 4:32 in two player games, with control of the two objects switching at the halfway point.
- Wrap Around: The Lunar Lander games.