Star Strike | |
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Developer(s) | Mattel |
Publisher(s) | Mattel |
Designer(s) | Hal Finney Brett Stutz[2] |
Platform(s) | Intellivision, Atari 2600 |
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Genre(s) | Shoot 'em up |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
Star Strike is a single-player video game, released by Mattel for its Intellivision video game system in 1981. The Intellivision's best-selling game in 1982, with over 800,000 copies sold,[2] Star Strike was inspired by the attack on the Death Star in the 1977 film Star Wars.[2] The player must drop bombs on alien weapons silos before Earth moves into range.
A port of Star Strike for the Atari 2600 was published under Mattel's M Network label in 1982.[3]