Space Attack
From Sega Retro
| Space Attack | |||||||||||||||||
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| System(s): Sega VIC Dual | |||||||||||||||||
| Publisher: Gremlin Industries (US), Sega (JP) | |||||||||||||||||
| Developer: Sega | |||||||||||||||||
| Distributor: Löwen-Automaten (DE) | |||||||||||||||||
| Genre: Shoot-'em-Up | |||||||||||||||||
| Number of players: 1 | |||||||||||||||||
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Space Attack (セガ・スペース・アタック) is an arcade game released by Sega for Sega VIC Dual hardware in 1979. In the US it is thought to have been renamed Super Space Attack - whether there are in fact two separate games is currently unknown, but the two are extremely similar and "Super" is often dropped in internal Super Space Attack documents.
Contents
Gameplay
Space Attack is a Space Invaders clone and is almost identical to Taito's classic. It is in fact completely identical to another VIC Dual Space Invaders clone, Alpha Fighter, sharing full colour graphics and a "bonus" round (in which the saucer briefly decends from the top of the screen after clearing the rest of usual set of invaders). Space Attack has a different set of graphics to Alpha Fighter, however.
Similar to versions of Space Invaders, the upright cabinets for Space Attack use a mirror to project the image onto a textured surface (in this case, a starfield), giving the illusion that there is a background while playing.
Magazine articles
- Main article: Space Attack/Magazine articles.
Promotional material
Artwork
Physical scans
| VIC Dual, US | ||||
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 Manual | ||||
| VIC Dual (upright), JP | ||||
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| VIC Dual (cocktail), JP | ||||
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Photo gallery
Cabinet
Cabinet
References
| Space Invaders games for Sega systems |
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| Space Invaders (1985) | Space Invaders '90 (1990) | Super Space Invaders (1992) | Space Invaders (1996) |
| Space Invaders (Dreamcast) (unreleased) |
| Space Invaders VIC Dual Clones |
| Alpha Fighter (19??) | Invinco (1979) | Space Attack (1979) | Super Space Attack (1979) |
