In Atari’s 1983 arcade game Star Wars, the player attacks the Death Star.
The game adapts the climactic assault from the 1977 film Star Wars. Players pilot an X-wing from a first-person viewpoint, battle TIE fighters, evade obstacles, and fire proton torpedoes at the Death Star’s exhaust port. Its vector graphics create wireframe-style ships, lasers, and the space station.
Star Wars was designed by Mike Hally and based on the film licensed from Lucasfilm. The arcade cabinet used a flight yoke rather than a conventional joystick, helping the controls feel like a spacecraft. The Death Star sequence is the game’s best-known objective, although the full experience includes several stages before the final attack.