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Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space

Space Shuttle is a simulation game where you are the pilot of space shuttle Discovery. Your goal is to launch the Discovery, establish an orbit around the Earth, open the cargo bay doors and recover a…

31 December 1983

Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space is a simulator developed by Activision, released 31 December 1983 on Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Amstrad CPC and Apple II.

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What Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space is

Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space is a simulator game developed by Activision and released in 1983. It is available on Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Space Shuttle is a simulation game where you are the pilot of space shuttle Discovery. Your goal is to launch the Discovery, establish an orbit around the Earth, open the cargo bay doors and recover a satellite to perform repairs, and finally land the Discovery successfully, all while using as little fuel as possible. Each time the complete mission is accomplished, it will then repeat at a higher difficulty level (in the higher difficulty levels the satellite has a more erratic flight path). The game is played from a first person perspective in the space shuttle cockpit where you can control everything from the shuttles engines to cargo bay doors. When the game is over you will be given a…
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are non-fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space launched on 31 December 1983, within three weeks of Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness and Zoo Keeper.

Released around the same time: Chuckie Egg, Atic Atac, The Witness, Zoo Keeper.

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When did Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space come out?
Space Shuttle: A Journey Into Space was released on 31 December 1983 for Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Amstrad CPC, Apple II, Atari 8-bit, Commodore C64/128/MAX, MSX and ZX Spectrum.

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