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''Star Raiders'' is a space combat simulator video game for the Atari 8-bit family of computers. It was written by Doug Neubauer, an Atari employee, and released in cartridge form by Atari in 1979. It was later ported to other Atari computer and game platforms. The game simulates combat in 3D between the player's powerful ship and an invading fleet of alien "Zylon" vessels. ''Star Raiders'' was distinctive for its graphics, which (under most conditions) represented an out-the-cockpit, first-person view from a fictional combat spaceship traveling through a streaming 3D starfield in pursuit of enemy spacecraft. The game's attract mode, a simple streaming star field, was a common sight in computer stores of the early-1980s to show off the Atari computers' graphics capabilities. The game is commonly referred to as the platform's killer app. While there had already been simple target-shooting games using this perspective (including 1977's ''Starhawk''), ''Star Raiders'' had considerably higher quality graphics and more complex game play. As a result, it inspired both imitators throughout the 1980s and later-generation space combat simulation games. Notably, it is one of the games that inspired the seminal title ''Elite'', and thus the ''Wing Commander'' and ''X-Wing'' series. It is also one in a series of first person space shooters (including 1977's ''Starhawk'' and 1979's ''Star Fire'') that appeared in the late-1970s and were arguably predecessors of the later seen first-person shooter genre. ''Star Raiders'' was criticized at the time for violent gameplay.〔 〕 In 2007, it was included as #2 in a list of the 10 most important video games of all time, as compiled by Stanford University's History of Science and Technology Collections.〔 〕 ==Production== Wanting to make an action-oriented Star Trek-type game, Doug Neubauer designed ''Star Raiders'' in about eight to ten months while working for Atari. He left the company while the game was still a prototype to return home to Oregon and join Hewlett-Packard, and reported that it took him six months to reach the highest player level during development. ''Star Raiders'' was unusual at the time for Atari as it made relatively few game cartridges for its computers, with most being adaptations of Atari 2600 titles. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Star Raiders」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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