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1	[[quoteright:250:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/starship_1.jpg]]
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3	''Starship 1'' is an Creator/{{Atari}} MediaNotes/ArcadeGame from 1976. It's a space FirstPersonShooter, with all the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Star Trek]]'' references that Atari could get away with in those less copyrighted days. You fly through [[FasterThanLightTravel hyperspace]], dodging [[AsteroidThicket planets and asteroids]] and shooting enemy spaceships. You can line them up in your crosshairs and shoot them with phasors, or fire one of your five [[SmartBomb proton torpedoes]] and destroy everything on the screen.
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5	There are four types of enemy ships, worth between 50 and 500 [[ScoringPoints points]]. One is obviously the Enterprise, one is a Klingon warbird, one is a FlyingSaucer, and one looks like a cat sticking its tongue out at you (!) Score 3500 points and you get 30 seconds of extra fuel. The game ends when you run out of fuel, there are no lives lost if you crash into planets or enemy ships.
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7	It had a loose Platform/Atari2600 adaptation called simply ''VideoGame/StarShip''.
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9	!!''Starship 1'' provides examples of:
10	* AsteroidThicket: Hyperspace is full of planets and asteroids coming at you. Steer the ship to dodge them.
11	* AttractMode: The ship flies through space as planets and asteroids go by while it waits for someone to insert a coin.
12	* FirstPersonShooter: You’re looking out the front of your spaceship, shooting enemies as they come towards you, and lining them up as they try to maneuver away from you. It’s primitive, and no one is shooting back at you, but still recognizable as an ancestor of today’s FPS games.
13	* OneBulletAtATime: Your phasors fire out into space and explode when they reach the end of their range. Then you get to fire again.
14	* OneUp: At 3500 points you get 30 seconds of extra fuel.
15	* ScoringPoints: The enemy ships are worth between 50 and 500 points.
16	* ShoutOut: Copyright was looser then, so the ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' references are somewhere between shout-outs and an outright [[TheMockbuster Mockbuster]]. One of the targets is a side view of the Enterprise with the engine nacelles moved down, while another looks like a front-end view of a Klingon D7 cruiser. Your weapons are the Enterprise’s phasers (called “phasors” here) and photon (“photon”) torpedoes. And you’re fighting for TheFederation, even though you’re shooting at both ''Star Trek'' Federation and Klingon ships.
17	* SmartBomb: Photon torpedoes that destroy every enemy on screen. You get five of them.
18	* TimedMission: You start with three minutes of fuel, and can get an extra 30 seconds.

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