Star Strike

Star Strike
Developer(s)Mattel
Publisher(s)Mattel
Designer(s)Hal Finney
Brett Stutz[2]
Platform(s)Intellivision, Atari 2600
Release
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]

  1. ^ "Star Strike".
  2. ^ a b c "Star Strike". IntellivisionLives.com. Archived from the original on 2007-10-15. Retrieved 2010-06-27.
  3. ^ "Star Strike for Atari 2600". GameFAQs.com. Retrieved 2010-06-27.