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DesignVideo Games' First Space Opera: Exploring Atari's Star RaidersVideo Games' First Space Opera: Exploring Atari's Star Raiders
Continuing Gamasutra's official histories of the games voted into the Digital Game Canon, we explore Doug Neubauer's Atari title Star Raiders, a "surprisingly complex space combat simulation" from 1979, and an obscure but vital precursor of the Wing Commander-esque digital space opera.
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