Trivia / Star Raiders

• Follow the Leader: The Activision game Starmaster was very clearly an imitation of Star Raiders, as were Phaser Patrol and Star Voyager on the NES.
• Killer App: Star Raiders was a genuine Killer App for the Atari computer line; many people bought the system just to play the game.
• What Could Have Been:
  • As noted in the main page, this game was intended to be an action version of the Star Trek Text Game.
  • As for Star Raiders II, it was intended to be a Licensed Game of The Last Starfighter (it was even advertised as such in the end credits of the movie), while the 2600 version became Solaris.

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