Sky Raider

Description

Pilot an aircraft and destroy strategic targets as you fly over the enemy territory. The targets include oil fields, electrical towers, bridges and enemy aircraft, which look like commercial airliners. The object is to hit as many targets as possible within the time allowed.

Sky Raider was produced by Atari in 1978.

Atari released 136 machines in our database under this trade name, starting in 1972. Atari was based in United States.

Other machines made by Atari during the time period Sky Raider was produced include: Airborne Avenger, Catch, Destroyer, Boxing, Dominos, Orbit, Fire Truck, Skydiver, Avalanche, and Smokey Joe

Specs

Name	Sky Raider
Developer	Atari (United States)
Year	1978
Type	Videogame
KLOV/MOG #	9573
Class	Wide Release
Genre	Scrolling Shooter
Monitor	Orientation: Horizontal Type: Raster: Standard Resolution Color: Black and White with a Color Overlay A red overlay covers the entire trapazoid-shaped playfield. The monitor image is reflected through a half-silvered mirror.
Conversion Class	Atari BW Raster
Dipswitch Settings	Sky Raider Dipswitch Settings (user contributed)
# Simultaneous Players	1
# Maximum Players	1
Game Play	Single
Control Panel Layout	Single Player
Controls	Steering: X/Y-directional yoke with common thumb buttons - Fire Buttons: 1 - Cone
Sound	Amplified Mono (one channel)
Cabinet Styles	Upright/Standard

Video Clips

Sky Raider shortplay by Ivan Paduano

Game Play

The enemy does not fire at you. The steering controls the speed of your aircraft as well as the crosshairs you use to target the enemy. Rack as as many points as possible to get extended play. The game is timed. Each target is worth a different amount of points with the enemy plane worth the most due to the difficulty in destroying it since it is moving toward you and under your aircraft.

Sky Raider KLOV/IAM 5 Point User Score: 0.00 (0 votes)

Personal Impressions and Technical Impressions each account for half of the total score. Within the Personal Impressions category, Like carries a little more weight than the other factors.

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Miscellaneous

Some of the Atari games made around 1977-1978 used similar cabinets and steering yoke, but steering movement, cabinet colors were different. Example would be Starship I. These cabinets were unique due to the entire marquee, plexiglass, speakers were all together on one huge plastic frame that connected on to the top of the game and also the control panel went in the middle of it towards the bottom, which fastened the frame to the bottom. Speakers are on each side, facing you and about neck level which made the sound great.

VAPS Arcade/Coin-Op Sky Raider Census

There are 14,769 members of the Video Arcade Preservation Society / Vintage Arcade Preservation Society, 9,481 whom participate in our arcade census project of games owned, wanted, or for sale. Census data currently includes 164,607 machines (6,903 unique titles).

Uncommon - There are 8 known instances of this machine owned by Sky Raider collectors who are active members. Of these, 7 of them are original dedicated machines. One is a set of circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

For Sale - There is one active VAPS member with a Sky Raider machine for sale.

Wanted - There is one active VAPS member currently looking for Sky Raider.

This game ranks a 3 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census ownership records.

This game ranks a 2 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most often seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on census want list records.

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Manuals

Foto-Finder® (Books)

The Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 63; Color photo Price guide: No
Encyclopedia of Arcade Video Games Kurtz (ISBN 0764319256) Page: 63; Color photo

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