Star Ship 1977 | Atari 2600
emulador pc

1-interacción: 0.4
2-mundo/apartado artístico: 1
3-concepto: 2
4-puesta en escena: 0
5-narración: -
6-sonido/apartado sonoro: 1
7-jugabilidad: 0
8-historia: -
9-duración/ritmo: 0
10-impacto: 0

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5.4/60pts

9 promedio

What if I told you this was the first first person shooter? Since I’m never going to print more than ten copies of this or even attempt to market it in any real meaningful way that would make me any cash I don’t bother to do any research beyond “shit I kind of remember reading on wikis the last time I tried a project like this when I should have been doing anything else more productive” so maybe that is wrong but I’m very willing to pretend I’m right about it, and I hope you are too.

In Star Ship you are, brace yourself for this shocker, a pilot of a star ship who needs to blast some things. There are a couple star ship related game modes here but they are all just similar takes on the concept, and sadly none of them are about Grace Slick trying to dose Nixon with LSD. That reference would have fucking killed in the 70s. What didn’t kill in the 70s was Star Ship, I mean the game not Jefferson Starship the reference I, a millennial, am too young to be making and you, most likely a Fortnite Zoomer here with a Youtube algorithm full of videos from a Pewdiepie or PepeGamer1488 video, are definitely too young to get. It didn’t do well contemporarily with most people saying that it looked great and, uh, yeah I can see that, but that the game play and modes were lacking, and since the first person aspect was for whatever reason not seen to be all that groundbreaking even though now we look back at it and go ‘hey neat’ it didn’t have much of a shelf life. They were mostly right, as its an interesting oddity in the early console catalogs but if it didn’t keep anybody interested in 77 it doesn’t have much of a chance to in Hell Year 20XX.

Y'all are mean to this game; it has an average rating of 2.1 at the time of this review. It's not great or anything, but it's a lot of dumb fun and not much different than Asteroids or Berzerk in its level of mindlessness. I didn't play any of the multiplayer, but the three single-player modes are decent, and they're graphically very impressive for a 1977 home console game. After a while, I went from only being able to obtain scores in the teens to easily achieving under 50 points in 2/3 of the game modes—I still found it hard to rack up high scores in the lunar lander mode. Overall, Star Ship is nothing incredible, but it's visually novel and a good "turn your brain off" activity. I'll have to give the multiplayer a shot when I can find someone to play these stupid games with me.