In 1976, Mattel released a handheld electronic game called "Missile Attack", which was later resold as " Battlestar Galactica Space Alert" due to difficulties with NBC who refused to air commercials for the Missile Attack game. Main article: Mattel Electronics Battlestar Galactica Space Alert It was developed by Warthog Games and it would be one of the three last game to be published under the Universal Interactive label, as the label would be phased out shortly after the game's release.īattlestar Galactica Space Alert The game also features the voice talents of Dirk Benedict as Lieutenant Starbuck and Richard Hatch as Captain Apollo, though both characters were hidden content available only through the use of cheat codes and did not feature in the storyline of the main game. Though presumed set in the continuity of the 2003 reboot, the visuals were based on the designs of the original 1978 series and like the original series, the game featured alien races and their technologies even though no aliens or alien technologies were ever suggested to exist in the 2003 continuity. The 2003 Battlestar Galactica mini-series inspired a video game for Sony's PlayStation 2 and Microsoft's Xbox in which the player plays as Commander Adama as a younger man, and flies a number of missions in different craft against Cylon ships, following Adama's career during the First Cylon War. Main article: Battlestar Galactica (2003 video game) In addition, squadrons of fighters are launched from a "base ship" to defend against the incoming enemy squadrons.
The " flying saucers" in the game are actually Cylon Raiders this is mostly imperceptible, due to the lack of detail that could be used in graphics of the platforms of that era. The name was changed, but the graphics remained the same. The game was well into development when they discovered Mattel didn't get the license. One of Mattel's subsidiaries, Concepts 2000, had the license to produce Battlestar Galactica electronic toys, so it was figured to be a lock that Mattel would get the license to produce the official Battlestar Galactica video game. Mattel-developed Space Battle for Intellivision and its M-Network counterpart, Space Attack for the Atari VCS/2600 platform, were originally stated to be games based on the Battlestar Galactica series.
Original series "Space Battle" & "Space Attack"
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