10 Facts About Star Raiders

Star Raiders is a first-person space combat simulator for the Atari 8-bit family of computers.

Star Raiders was distinctive for its graphics, which, in addition to various map and long range scan views, provided forward and aft first-person views, with movement conveyed by a streaming 3D starfield as the player engaged enemy spacecraft.

In 2007, Star Raiders was included in a list of the 10 most important video games of all time, as compiled by Stanford University's History of Science and Technology Collections.

Star Raiders was unusual at the time for Atari, as it made relatively few game cartridges for its computers, with most being adaptations of Atari 2600 titles.

Versions of Star Raiders were created for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, and Atari ST series of computers.

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The magazine reported that Star Raiders complexity encouraged cooperative gameplay, and that "over twenty hours of grueling tests by a battery of ingenious children" had proven that it was free of bugs.

In 2004, the Atari 8-bit version of Star Raiders was inducted into GameSpot's list of the greatest games of all time.

On March 12, 2007, The New York Times reported that Star Raiders was named to a list of the ten most important video games of all time, the so-called game canon.

Re-imagining of Star Raiders, developed by Incinerator Studios and published by Atari SA, was released for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows on May 11, 2011.

Star Raiders inspired later space combat games like Elite, the Wing Commander series and BattleSphere.