Space Battle
Platform: Intellivision
Region: USA
Media: Cartridge
Controller: INTV
Genre: Action 
Gametype: Licensed
Release Year: 1979
Developer: APh Technological Consulting
Publisher: Mattel Electronics
Players: 1 or 2 Alternating
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Space Battle is a one player game that pits you against the computer.

Six alien fleets of different sizes are attacking your mothership, and it's up to you to defend it using your three squadrons.  Alien ships will dodge your attacks and will attack you with photon blasts.

There are two game modes; Radar Mode, which is more strategy, and Battle Mode, which is all out action.


CATALOG DESCRIPTION:

Outer space action! You must outwit the computer-controlled invaders! Consult the situation map, deploy the defense. Switch to cockpit close-up. Fire lasers! Save the command ship! You do it all, amidst the simulated sounds of outer space combat.


DEVELOPMENT HISTORY:

If the enemy spacecraft look familiar, it's because they are Cylon raiders from the late-seventies TV program Battlestar Gallactica. One of Mattel's subsidiaries, Concepts 2000, had the license to produce Battlestar Galactica electronic toys, so it was figured to be a lock that Mattel would get the license to produce the official Battlestar Gallactica videogame. Wrong. The game was well into development when they discovered Mattel didn't get the license. The name was changed, but the graphics remained the same.

An M Network version of the game, called Space Attack, was released for the Atari 2600.


RUNNING CHANGE:

When the game was finished, Dale Lynn, who tested it, said it was too easy. APh cranked up the difficulty, but Dale told them it was still too easy. "Maybe for you," he was told, "but not for the general public." Wrong again. Consumers found the game too easy when it was released.

A more difficult version was released soon after as part of the new Space Action Network. This version, in a blue box with a blue label, is the more familiar.

 
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