Space Cavern

Space Cavern
Developer(s)Games by Apollo
Publisher(s)Games by Apollo
Designer(s)Dan Oliver
Platform(s)Atari 2600
ReleaseAugust 25, 1982
Genre(s)Fixed shooter
Mode(s)Single-player, two-player

Space Cavern is a 1982 fixed shooter video game for the Atari 2600 developed and released by Games by Apollo. Players control a spaceship commander who has landed on a planet and must defend the ship against its hostile creatures. Games by Apollo founder Pat Roper was impressed by the game Demon Attack and tasked Apollo member Dan Oliver with making a game very similar to it.