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Space Duel

Description

Color vector game where player's ship shoots colored geometric shaped "asteroids", mines, enemy ships, and opposing player's ship. A bonus wave adds a multiplayer to the player's score when all bonus objects are shot.

Space Duel was produced by Atari in 1982.

Atari released 137 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Space Duel was produced include: Neutron Star, Tempest Tubes, Tempest, Triangle, Maze Invaders, Akka Arrh, Atari Force Liberator, Fast Freddie, Black Widow, and Gravitar

Specs

Name	Space Duel
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1982
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9647
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Space
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Vector Color: Color
Conversion Class	Atari Color Vector
Game Specific	Space Duel Pinout
Dipswitch Settings	Space Duel Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	2
# Maximum Players	2
Game Play	Joint
Control Panel Layout	Multiple Player
Controls	Buttons: Rotational (left, right) Buttons: 3 - FireThrustShield
Sound	Unamplified Mono (requires one-channel amp)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard - 272 lbs Cocktail
Control Panel	Space Duel Control Panel Image
Side Art	Space Duel Side Art Image

Video Clips

Space Duel

Game Introduction

This game is a two-player color version of Asteroids. It has two different modes of play: competitive and team. In competitive mode, each player competes for points. Players can shoot each other for bonus points, but they don't lose a ship. In team mode, the two players are attached together by a "filament". Each player's ship can move and shoot independently while still being attached.

Space Duel KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 3.53 (12 votes)

Fun Factor: 3.58

Overall Like	3.67
Fun (Social)	4.17
Fun (Solo)	3.00
Collector Desire	3.42

Technical Rating: 3.48

Gameplay	4.00
Graphics	3.83
Originality	2.92
Sound/Music	3.17

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

Images

Trivia

The game appears on the album cover of It's Hard by the Who. The was possibly the first video game to make it onto an album cover.

Cabinet Information

8 color artwork is silk-screened directly onto the sides and depicts the player's ships battling several other mines and ships.

Miscellaneous

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Space Duel Census

There are 15,211 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,644 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 166,563 machines (6,981 unique titles).

Very Common - There are 507 known instances of this machine owned by Space Duel collectors who are active members. Of these, 466 of them are original dedicated machines. 2 of them are conversions in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet. 38 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There are 18 active VAPS members with a Space Duel machines for sale. There are 2 active VAPS members with a Space Duel circuit boards for sale.

Wanted - Very Popular - There are 28 active VAPS members currently looking for Space Duel.

This game ranks a 83 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 38 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

Rarity and Popularity independently are not necessarily indications of value. [More Information]

Flyers

Community Awareness Program

1982 / 2 Pages

Legacy

Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 127; Color photo

Additional References (logged in members often see more)

3D Model (External): Upright (dbceb44a8aa258f07187289b7bc71a0a)
3D Model (External): Upright (f82ae16493803c6dcf1e1aacf796d371)

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