Legacy
- Star Castle became a basis for the Atari 2600's popular Yars' Revenge (1981).
- Star Castle was featured in the 1982 movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
- Star Castle was featured in the 1984 movie Ghostbusters. It was one of the two arcade games, along with a pinball machine, that the Ghostbusters team kept in their headquarters.
- Star Castle was featured in the 1986 movie Maximum Overdrive, where it electrocuted a person to death in the arcade.
- Star Castle was featured in the 1989 TV series Columbo: Murder, Smoke and Shadows along with video game Joust.
- A level inspired by Star Castle is featured in Angry Birds Space.
- D. Scott Williamson adapted the original arcade version of Star Castle to the Atari 2600 game console, a task that was originally thought impossible by game developer Howard Scott Warshaw. Completed in 2012, the Atari version was made available as a limited run physical cartridge complete with box art and instruction manual.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
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