Spacewar - 1985

Controls

Main Menu
F1 = Exits to DOS in attract mode. Switches to attract mode in when playing the game.
F2 = Starts the game.
F3 = Enables the Left Auto Robot Player.
F4 = Enables the Right Auto Robot Player.
F5 = Places a Gravity hole at the center of the screen.
F6 = Places a Planet at the center of the screen.
F7 = Freezes the action for attract or play mode.
F8 = Toggles the sound on or off.

LEFT PLAYER KEYS
Q = FIRE PHASERS
W = CLOAK SHIP
E = FIRE PHOTON TORPEDO
A = ROTATE COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
S = IMPULSE ENGINES
D = ROTATE CLOCKWISE
Z = MOVE SHIELD ENERGY TO WEAPON ENERGY
X = HYPER SPACE
C = MOVE WEAPON ENERGY TO SHIELD ENERGY

RIGHT PLAYER KEYS
7 = FIRE PHASERS
8 = CLOAK SHIP
9 = FIRE PHOTON TORPEDO
4 = ROTATE COUNTER-CLOCKWISE
5 = IMPULSE ENGINES
6 = ROTATE CLOCKWISE
1 = MOVE SHIELD ENERGY TO WEAPON ENERGY
2 = HYPER SPACE
3 = MOVE WEAPON ENERGY TO SHIELD ENERGY

Game History - Spacewar

Objective

Destroy the other ship before it destroys you. Use your PHOTON TORPEDOS or PHASERS to reduce its SHIELD energy. A hit with no shields will destroy the ship.

Weapons

PHOTON TORPEDOS - The best offsensive weapon. The torpedo takes one unit of energy to fire and does four units of damage to your opponent's shields.

PHASERS - A good defensive weapon if you are accurate. The phaser requires one unit of energy to fire and does two units of damage to your opponent's shields.

Defenses

IMPULSE ENGINES - Used to move your ship in the direction you are pointing. Remember in space there is no friction, to slow down you must turn your ship around and thrust from the other direction. The impulse engines use about one unit of energy every half second.

CLOAK - Used to makes your ship invisible. You can still move, fire, hyperspace, etc. but no one can see you, including yourself. Cloaking will use about one unit of energy every half second.

HYPER SPACE - Hyper space is a quick way to get out of a bad situation fast. You pay an eight energy units to use hyper space and you don't know where you will end up.

Comments

You must have energy to use your weapons or defences. The 'E' bar on your side of the bottom of the screen must display energy. Your 'E' bar energy is recharged from your Dilithium crystals at one unit every two seconds.

Use your phasers to shoot incoming photon torpedos. Those torpedos do alot of damage.

If you hear the warning sound someone's shield energy is below sixteen units, and they are about to be distroyed. The 'S' bar on your side of the bottom of the screen indicates you shield energy. Use the energy balance keys to increase your shield energy and protect yourself. The energy balance keys for the left player are 'Z' and 'C' and for the right player '1' and '3'.

Warning, touching the planet will drain your shields very fast so stay away.

When using Gravity try to get in orbit. Care must be use when firing torpedoes in orbit. If they don't hit something they will come back and hit you.

The Left Auto Robot is a good defensive player. He is a crack shot and hard to destroy.

The Right Auto Robot is an offensive player. He will chase you around space firing often.

Game created by Bill Seiler in 1985

File Download - spacewar-1985.zip

Game Screenshots - Spacewar Game