Star Wars for ZX Spectrum

ZX Spectrum
original resolution: 256x192

Star Wars - 1987, Domark Ltd (UK)

Action arcade rail shooter space flight sci-fi star wars
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Click on the play ZX Spectrum game now button first to load the game, with the stop / start button you can pause the emulation.
The game is controlled using the keyboard or joystick, just like on an old computer.

Star Wars

Online version of Star Wars for ZX Spectrum. Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter designed by Mike Hally and released in arcades by Atari, Inc. in 1983. It uses 3D color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the Death Star from the 1977 film Star Wars. Assuming the role of Luke Skywalker (Red Five), the player pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. The player does not have to destroy every TIE Fighter and gun turret in order to advance through the game; instead, the player must survive for a set length of time, either avoiding or destroying enemies and the shots they fire. The player begins with six shields, one of which is lost for every collision with an enemy or projectile. If the player loses all shields and is hit again, the game ends. Each wave of the game consists of three attack phases, culminating in the destruction of the Death Star...

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Released in
1983
Publisher
Atari, Inc., Domark, Broderbund
Developer
Atari, Inc.
Platforms
Arcade (1983), Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit, ColecoVision, Commodore 64 (1984), Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, BBC Micro, Electron, ZX Spectrum (1987), Macintosh (1988), Amiga, PC DOS (1989), Game Cube (2003)

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Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Online emulated version of Star Wars was originally developed for the ZX Spectrum an 8-bit personal home computer released in the United Kingdom in 1982 by Sinclair Research. Referred to during development as the ZX81 Colour and ZX82, it was launched as the ZX Spectrum by Sinclair to highlight the machine's colour display, compared with the black and white display of its predecessor, the ZX81. The Spectrum was released as eight different models, ranging from the entry level with 16 KB RAM released in 1982 to the ZX Spectrum +3 with 128 KB RAM and built in floppy disk drive in 1987.
The Spectrum is based on a Zilog Z80 A CPU running at 3.5 MHz (or NEC D780C-1 clone). The original model has 16 KB (16×1024 bytes) of ROM and either 16 KB or 48 KB of RAM. Hardware design was by Richard Altwasser of Sinclair Research, and the outward appearance was designed by Sinclair's industrial designer Rick Dickinson.
Video output is through an RF modulator and was designed for use with contemporary television sets, for a simple colour graphic display. Text can be displayed using 32×24 characters from the ZX Spectrum character set or from a set provided within an application, from a palette of 15 shades: seven colours at two levels of brightness each, plus black. The image resolution is 256×192 with the same colour limitations.

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online game added: 2021-05-12, by dj