In the third phase, the player flies through the final trench towards the thermal exhaust port, the Death Star's weakness.

If the player manages to destroy all of the towers, he will receive a sizable point bonus.

In the second phase, the player reaches the Death Star's surface as laser turrets on towers rise to confront the player.

He must engage in a dog fight with Darth Vader and enemy TIE Fighters.

In the first phase of the game, the player begins in the airspace above the Death Star.

The player's ultimate goal is to destroy the Death Star through three attack phases.

Unlike other arcade games of similar nature, the player does not have to destroy every enemy in order to advance through the game he must simply survive as his fighter flies through the level, which most often means he must avoid or destroy the shots that enemies fire. The player assumes the role of Luke Skywalker ('Red Five'), as he pilots an X-wing fighter from a first-person perspective. This version featured a long introductory cutscene at the beginning of the game. In 1991, an updated version of the game was released for the NEC PC-98 and the Sharp X68000 systems under the title Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star.

It was later produced as Star Wars: The Arcade Game for the Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Atari 8-bit home computers, ColecoVision, and Commodore 64. Considered one of the most popular video games of all time, it was greatly successful in its day, particularly in the wake of the theatrical release of Return of the Jedi. The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics. More specifically the game's action covers the Battle of Yavin. The game is a first-person space simulator, based around Star Wars: Episode IV A New Hope. Star Wars: The Arcade Game, or simply Star Wars, is an arcade game produced by Atari and released in 1983.

' Now coin video game players can plunge head-on into the world of LUKE SKYWALKER in the ultimate fantasy.STAR WARS!' ―Flyer advertising the arcade game

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