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Space Duel
''Space Duel'' is an arcade game released in 1982 by Atari, Inc. It is a direct descendant of the original ''Asteroids'', with asteroids replaced by colorful geometric shapes like cubes, diamonds, and spinning pinwheels. ''Space Duel'' is the first and only multiplayer vector game by Atari. When ''Asteroids Deluxe'' did not sell well, this game was taken off the shelf and released to moderate success. Gameplay The player has five buttons: two to rotate the ship left or right, one to shoot, one to activate the thruster, and one for force field. Shooting all objects on the screen completes a level. ''Space Duel'', ''Asteroids'', ''Asteroids Deluxe'', and ''Gravitar'' all use similar 5-button control system. Legacy ''Space Duel'' is included within the ''Atari Anthology'' for Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2 and the PlayStation version of ''Atari Anniversary Edition''. A port of ''Space Duel'' was released on the Atari Flashback 2, reproducing only the single-player mode. A ''Spac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Space Duel Flyer
Space is the boundless three-dimensional extent in which objects and events have relative position and direction. In classical physics, physical space is often conceived in three linear dimensions, although modern physicists usually consider it, with time, to be part of a boundless four-dimensional continuum known as spacetime. The concept of space is considered to be of fundamental importance to an understanding of the physical universe. However, disagreement continues between philosophers over whether it is itself an entity, a relationship between entities, or part of a conceptual framework. Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity; namely, to treatises like the ''Timaeus'' of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called ''khôra'' (i.e. "space"), or in the ''Physics'' of Aristotle (Book IV, Delta) in the definition of ''topos'' (i.e. place), or in the later "geometrical conception of place" as "space ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
