Star Wars

Star Wars is a first-person rail shooter based on the Rebel assault against the Death Star near the end of the 1977 film of the same name. The player takes the role of Luke Skywalker, piloting the Red Five X-wing through a succession of space-combat, surface-attack, and trench-run sequences before firing into the station’s thermal exhaust port.

The original arcade cabinet uses a flight-control yoke to move an aiming cursor and steer the X-wing, with four buttons firing its wing-mounted lasers. The ship is protected by a limited number of deflector shields. Enemy fireballs can be shot down, but each one that reaches the X-wing removes a shield, as does colliding with a surface installation or trench obstacle. Another hit after the shields have been exhausted ends the game.