Arcade Video game published 45 years ago:

Space Cruiser (c) 1981 Taito corporation.

An excellent and varied space shoot'm up game. Locate the coordinates of attack on the interstellar map, the UFO attack is coming! Forwards! The Earth's future is on your shoulders! Blast off the Space Cruiser for a new survival adventure! Stages: 1. UFO's found! Attack and destroy! 2. Danger! Asteroids! 3. Space station! 4. Alien's found! Attack and destroy! 5. Enemy bases in range!

- TECHNICAL -

Runs on the "Taito SJ System" hardware. Prom Stickers: CG Screen resolution: 224x256 (vertical)

Players: up to 2 (alternate) Control: 2-way joystick (left and right) Buttons: 2 => A = fire, B = continue

- TRIVIA -

Released in September 1981.

A few seconds of 'Night on Bald mountain' from 'Fantasia' are played during most stages.

The game features digitized speech during countdown before blastoff, but the quality isn't high.

High score allows to put up to 10 letters.

'Forward!' is misspelled as 'Foward!'.

The game has punctuation mistakes - an unnecessary space is placed before almost all exclamation marks (except 'Danger! Asteroids!', 'Asteroids point! and 'Alien's found!' - there's no space before exclamation marks).

Also available as a cocktail model. In Japan, the cocktail version is known as "T.T. Space Cruiser".

- SCORING -

Player layout in our catalog: 2P alt.

If you are exploring by feel rather than by title, jump from the tags above into the matching genre rooms, or return to the Arcade hall for the full wall.

Open Play on this page to start Space Cruiser. Keyboard, USB/Bluetooth pads, and the on-screen touch gamepad all work inside the emulator bar. Save states and fullscreen live on that same bar so you can pause mid-session and resume later.

Space Cruiser is filed in our catalog as a 1981 release.

Player layout on this cabinet: 2P alt.

Genre tags on Classic Arcade Games: Shooter.

Credit line lists Taito Corporation as developer.