>Ruffin Bailey wrote:
>>
>> >And it's the Atari 400 version which is responsible for Elite and all of
>> >those games, really.
>>
>> So did the 400 version come out and become successful before the 2600
>> version was released? That is, is 2600 SR a port of what would be a
>
>As I recall, SR was written for fun by one of the 400/800 engineers,
>wasn't it?
Actually, it's Doug Neubauer, of Solaris and Basic Programming fame.
And Star Raiders is one of the most common cartridges available for
the Atari 8-bit. I'm not sure whether it was the pack-in cartridge or
not, though. I think mine came with Pac-Man, and a few weeks later
my parents came home with Missile Command and Star Raiders.
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