Early Video Games
Early video games in which hyperspace was featured include Asteroids, Star Raiders and Defender along with its sequel Defender II (aka Stargate). This was a way of escaping danger by having your ship vanish and reappear in a random area on the play screen. However, there was always the chance that the player's ship would reappear in an even more dangerous spot. Defender and Defender II had a feature in which a ship would explode a certain percentage of time upon re-emerging from hyperspace. It was explained as having the ship rematerialize in the same space as an enemy ship or missile, which made using hyperspace a last-ditch effort to avoid an otherwise certain demise. In the video game Star Raiders a ship would first use a galactic chart and move the dot which represents the ship and move to a sector with enemy ships then activate the hyperwarp and jump to hyperspace and reemerge into the Sector with enemy Zylon Warships some which resemble the TIE fighters seen in Star Wars.
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