Space Dungeon is a shoot 'em up arcade game created by Taito Corporation in 1981. It was designed and programmed by Rex Battenberg. It was released both as a conversion kit and as a full arcade cabinet. The only home version of the game was released in 1983 for the Atari 5200 game system.
Like Robotron: 2084 (1982) and Smash TV (1990), the uncoventional controls for Space Dungeon are a pair of 8-directional joysticks (one for moving, one for shooting) rather than the more typical single joystick and fire button. This mechanism allows plays to shoot in directions other than that in which they are moving. The game also featured an automap to keep track of the player's movement from screen to screen.
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Famous quotes containing the words space and/or dungeon:
“Time in his little cinema of the heart
Giving a première to Hate and Pain;
And Space urbanely keeping us apart.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)
“We are all serving a life-sentence in the dungeon of self.”
—Cyril Connolly (1903–1974)