
The console was prototyped as codename Stella by Atari subsidiary Cyan Engineering. The first inexpensive microprocessors from MOS Technology in late 1975 made this feasible. Ītari was successful at creating arcade video games, but their development cost and limited lifespan drove CEO Nolan Bushnell to seek a programmable home system. Branded as the Atari Video Computer System ( Atari VCS) from its release until November 1982, the VCS was bundled with two joystick controllers, a conjoined pair of paddle controllers, and a game cartridge-initially Combat and later Pac-Man. Released in September 1977, it popularized microprocessor-based hardware and games stored on swappable ROM cartridges, a format first used with the Fairchild Channel F in 1976. Additionally, Super-bombs (clear screen of enemies) and Invulnerability can be found while flying the lightship.The Atari 2600 is a home video game console developed and produced by Atari, Inc. Your goal is to blow up the core and find the escape ship before explosion.Power-ups to increase Energy or Bombs can be found in each part of the game. Any movement or firing you do consumes energy which is regenerated by standing still. Hal is equipped with a jetpack rather than a jump as well as a blaster weapon and a more powerful bomb weapon. Once docked, you walk the inside of the Air Fortress at your own pace. This lasts until you dock with the airlock. The first part is a side-scrolling shooter on the surface of the air fortress where you must avoid various flying enemies and try to destroy as many waves as possible. Once the central core is destroyed, Hal must then quickly find the emergency lightship and escape before the fortress explodes.The game is made up of two parts.

Then he must travel through the fortress in only a spacesuit to find and destroy the central core. His mission will to be to fly through the defenses of the eight known Air Fortresses and dock at the airlock.


When conventional defense tactics fail, the Federation looks to find a specially selected person, Hal Bailman and equip him with a special "Lightship". The Federation of Intergalactic Powers is under threat by gigantic fortress spaceships which have suddenly appeared and destroyed nearby civilization.
