Shoot'em Up! / Shoot'em Up! - 3-D · 1982

StarMaster

Published by Activision

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Information

Genre: Shoot'em Up! - 3-D
Controls: Joystick
Players: 1
Programmer(s): Miller, Alan
Format: NTSC
Year: 1982
Publisher: Activision
Country: USA
Medium: Cartridge
Serial: AX-016

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.0/10 · Votes: 5 · Downloads: 5,079 · Hits: 30,721

Additional Comments

The Difficulty switches act the same as the TV Type switch.

Two versions of this game exist. The first release of StarMaster caused the screen to roll on some TV sets, due to the VSYNC pulse lasting for only 2 scanlines instead of 3. The later release fixed this problem.

Screenshots (3)

Cover Art (7)

Instructions (22)

Ads (4)

Chopper Command / StarMaster [UK] · 1982

StarMaster / Chopper Command [UK] · 1982

StarMaster / Tennis / Pitfall! / Chopper Command [French] · 1983

Clothing (4)

Activision Greatest American Hero T-Shirt Front

Activision Greatest American Hero T-Shirt Back

Dealer Displays (2)

Other (1)

Pins / Badges / Medals (6)

StarMaster - Order of the Supreme Starmaster

Posters (1)

Comments (3)

olderthandirt93 — 24 Jan 2026
I played this game A LOT in the early 80s. Sometimes I'd imagine myself either piloting an X-Wing or a Viper (if you know old Sci-Fi shows you'll get the reference). So glad to rediscover it.
Scott Rinke — 20 Jun 2018
The only 2600 cartridge I still own from the early 80's, and the game that had me actively trying to earn the patches that Activision would send with a picture of your score on the screen. Since first-person-shooter games are so popular now, we have Starmaster to thank as being one of the pioneers of the genre.
Larry Russo — 23 Feb 2011
what a great game - improves on Star Raiders and Star Ship plus a little bit of the old Star Trek game we played on green-bar paper back in the days of VAX and Mainframes....