Talk:Stargate (1981 video game)

Availability of Shockwave version
The article says the Shockwave version "is currently freely available to be played within the shockwave web applet." Where? Provide a URL, please! I would love to play the Shockwave version, but all I've found are broken links to it!! 71.219.235.101 (talk) 04:40, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

Well found a URL. https://archive.org/details/arcade_stargate It will not work in Internet Explorer. Does work in Mozilla or Microsoft Edge. After it loads up it will show words saying "factory setting restored". Need to press F2 for a soft reboot to get things working. The keys for everything to work are not explained.

Found pressing 6 will get you credits, then press 1 to start game. Up and down arrows work. Ctrl is for firing and Alt is for moving forward. Spacebar is SmartBomb. Z is for Invisible. X is for Hyperspace. Shift is for Reverse direction. The Ctrl, Shift, Alt keys work on left side of keyboard for me.

Kyle — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.113.20 (talk) 19:56, 8 May 2017 (UTC)

Pinball
I removed the "category:pinball" from this article because the article doesn't mention anything about a pinball machine variant of the game, and I can't find anything about there being one. There does appear to have been a pinball based on Defender, and one based on the Stargate movie, but not one based on this game. If there was one that I'm just not aware of, though, please add a paragraph about it and then re-add the category to this article. :) --209.108.217.226 03:26, 29 November 2005 (UTC)

Top Score
The highest score was 40 million back in 1980s. Did read about one score 71 million.

Yes I, Kyle, have played 12 hours on one quarter too in Burnaby B.C. Canada and got over 15 million. Pity was the arcade was closing so I had to stop playing. Similar 35 ships and unknown smart bombs. It was a great game. The score did not to back to 0. Well no way I am going to play 60 to 65 hours to be a score. I am happy with my personal best. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.70.113.20 (talk) 07:48, 28 March 2017 (UTC)

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"...there has never been a confirmed score of 1 million or higher on Stargate." ??

Sorry, but I have to disagree... Back in '82/83 in Elizabeth, NJ I topped out on several occasions at more than a million and there were a few people I knew who were way better than me. One guy I knew named Tony broke 4 million. His father owned an arcade distributorship and so he could play for free. Another red haired guy in the area named "Stymie" supposedly broke 5 million. He was the acknowledged champion, even by Tony. His friend named Kurt broke 2-3 million. Breaking 1 million in Stargate is an ordeal that takes well over an hour, so breaking 4 or 5 million would be an all afternoon marathon. Anyone who can break 500,000 in Stargate is spectacular and breaking a million in my book makes you a certified bone fide ascended Stargate master. In those days we Stargate masters could recognize each other on sight, no words needed even though we were complete strangers. The zen like experience we had in common of surviving multi-hour battles in the Stargate universe on a single quarter gave you a certain look, a certain attitude that let you recognize one another for what you were. Stargate is quite simply the most demanding video game ever created, with the largest number of moving objects and the greatest degree of hand eye coordination required to master it. Hours of play caused your left middle finger knuckle to get callused from moving the control stick, your arms to get rigid, your back to ache, and your eyes to get blurry. Even among die hard Stargate players, very few had the stamina and skill required to break a million, no matter how many years and quarters they spent trying. Those that did became legends, and had a piercing gaze on their faces like the so called "thousand yard stare" of those guys from Vietnam. Ahh, how I miss the good old days in the early 80's! There'll never be days like those again!

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Back in the day, I had a couple of friends that were just as good as each other on Stargate. They would take turn swapping out as they got tired. They would have smart bombs, inviso and ships off the register. They would use something and it wouldn't even register that it was used. They would play for hours. The highest score I ever saw them get was over 9 million before they walked away from the machine, too tired to continue playing....

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Not many people know this, but there is a maximum number of points before the score "rolls over" to 0. I know what the number is first hand, as back in the day when Stargate was THE game, I played for 10+ hours straight on one quarter. A buddy (who owned the arcade), as well as dozens of others witnessed the event. When time came to close down the arcade that day, there was well over 100 ships and smartbombs remaining. -

I also played 15+ hours straight on one quarter. I counted the number of ship before they close.. it was about 50 ships and 20 smart bombs. I believe 10 million will not roll over to 0. I think I've done that and didnt roll over to 0. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.123.79.97 (talk) 20:31, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

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PC version
The IBM PC version of this has the copyright message "public domain by Atari". Did Atari acquire the rights to this at some point? 2fort5r (talk) 13:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

First, I'm fairly sure that was a pirated version of the game; the legitimate release would almost certainly have listed a copyright instead of claiming to be public domain. Second, Atari produced a number of arcade conversions for other platforms, under the Atarisoft label. I would not be surprised if Atari had licensed Stargate from Williams for producing home conversions at that time period - they certainly had enough home-version rights to produce an Atari 2600 version. WNivek (talk) 03:22, 18 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Oddly the only YouTube video of Atarisoft's IBM PC version also starts with "public domain by Atari". The other Atarisoft games from the period (including Defender and Robotron) had correct copyrights. Wikipedia's article suggests that the PC version was never finished, but eBay has at least one boxed copy of the game, which also has a proper copyright notice on the back. Perhaps it was released in tiny quantities. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 17:59, 29 November 2019 (UTC)


 * It's just a hack. The sceenshots at Mobygames contain the real copyright notices.
 * "Wikipedia's article suggests that the PC version was never finished" - where? We need to fix that. --Krótki (talk) 10:54, 3 December 2019 (UTC)

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Requested move 20 September 2021

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: Moved to Stargate (1981 video game), with Stargate (video game) redirected to Stargate (disambiguation). No such user (talk) 14:20, 6 October 2021 (UTC)

Stargate (video game) → Stargate (1981 video game) – WP:AT ambiguous disambiguation is a bad idea. There's also Stargate (1994 console video game) among others; the current title should point to the disambiguation page -- 64.229.90.53 (talk) 10:47, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Is the 1981 video game WP:PRIMARYTOPIC? If so, we should let the article title be. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:06, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Definitely not a primary topic, see WP:PDAB. 162 etc. (talk) 14:25, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * In the example of Thriller (album), there is one album that is very well known and is considered much more highly notable than the others. is what I mean. If people usually mean the 1981 game is the Stargate video game, then the pages should be as is. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 14:50, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). Elli (talk &#124; contribs) 16:41, 20 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Note: WikiProject Video games has been notified of this discussion. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)


 * A cursory Google search shows no predominance of this particular game, so it clearly is not a primary topic. -- 64.229.90.53 (talk) 02:48, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Support - Duckduckgo searches for a Stargate (video) game yield many (video) games, and the 1981 usually requires a qualifier, such as "arcade". Just as likely that the reader seeks one of the other ones, so the article title needs a more complete disambiguation. Rotideypoc41352 (talk · contribs) 03:39, 22 September 2021 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Move - Neither is an unambiguous primarytopic, prefer more precise disambiguation. I would even propose retargetting to List of Stargate games with a hatnote leaving a link to Defender II.  Ben · Salvidrim!   &#9993;  03:19, 22 September 2021 (UTC)
 * Support this one gets 830 views compared with 164[|Stargate_(1994_console_video_game)] for the 1994 one, probably not enough for a PDAB.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 17:40, 23 September 2021 (UTC)