Star Raiders II

Information

Genre

Shoot'em Up! - 3-D

Language

Machine Language

Controls

Joystick, Keyboard

Players

1

Programmer(s)

Stark, Gary, Poehlman, Bruce

Dump

Missing dump(s)

Year

1986

Publisher

Atari

Developer

Atari

Country

USA

License

Commercial

Medium

Disk

Rarity

6

Serial

DX5084

Votes / Statistics

Rating: 8.2/10 · Votes: 1,121 · Downloads: 0 · Hits: 13,748

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Cover Art (3)

Comments (21)

• wizzzard — 17 Nov 2025

  One of my favorite games. Great graphics, gameplay, and style. Very immersive with a good storyline. I think the additions to the original "Last Starfighter' version bring it from a good title to a great one. A++

• Gildahl — 19 Jul 2022

  @AbbotKinneyDude. I guess I should qualify by saying, "Among released 8-bit Atari computer games..." Thanks for mentioning the Wilmunder Star Raiders II though. I just downloaded and took if for a spin. It appears that this could have been a contender after further development, but my brief time with it suggests that it may also have been too close to the original to have taken the crown. It seems to play almost identically. I did notice in reading the "Authoritative Star Raiders II", that a reason why Wilmunder never completed it was because he got a job offer at Lucasfilm Games. It makes me wonder if he had any involvement with the Rescue on Fractulus project.

• AbbotKinneyDude — 10 Jul 2022

  @Gildahi - Just a reminder that if you're looking for a true successor to Doug Neubauer's 1979 STar Raiders, there are 2 main choices: 1) Aric Wilmunder's Star Raiders II which is very much in spirit with the original. 2) Doug Neubauet's SOLARIS for the Atari 2600. Don't forget that the officially released Star Raiders II from 1985 is a re-skin of The Last Starfighter from 1984. Links: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-star-raiders-ii_30426.html + http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-2600-vcs-solaris_7475.html

• Gildahl — 9 Jul 2022

  An *ok* game at best. Definitely not Star Raiders II. Calling it that was a shame. If you want the true successor to Star Raiders, I'd say that Rescue on Fractalus would have been the perfect candidate. This was kind of fun as an arcade title and I played it somewhat regularly but, it doesn't have "classic" written on it anywhere.

• Pete Davison — 15 May 2022

  "This isn't Star Raiders!" No it isn't. But Star Raiders still exists, so go play that if you like Star Raiders. Or indeed, the other Star Raiders II prototype that is out there which is much closer to the original. "This isn't a true sequel to Star Raiders!" Maybe not, but Solaris on Atari 2600 exists. Go play that if you want a "true" sequel to Star Raiders, by the original developer, no less. What this *is*, is an enjoyable space combat game with some enjoyable mechanics, some impressive graphical effects and a fun lightweight strategic element. Whether or not it's called "Star Raiders" (or "The Last Starfighter", for that matter) doesn't matter. Taken on its own merits, this is a solid and enjoyable game that is worth playing -- and a longstanding personal favourite of mine from the Atari 8-bit's lineup.

• JT — 23 Apr 2022

  Wow...yet another game on this site overrated to the point of insanity. This isn't and never was a real sequel to "Star Raiders" (an infinitely superior game in every way other than graphics). It was initially just a lame attempt at leveraging the Last Starfighter movie-spinoff rights (but has absolutely nothing to do with the movie either). When that didn't turn out to work for them marketing-wise, they renamed it SR2 to cynically try to leverage some profits off the deservedly-high goodwill for the original SR instead (and unfortunately succeeded to some degree). This is a graphically fine but very dumbed-down space shooter...very inferior to SR and undeserving of the title it ended up with.

• AbbotKinneyDude — 26 Sept 2020

  AtariProtos.com credits Robert Viera (Moon Patrol) as the sound designer on The Last Starfighter. Considering his work wasn't altered for ATARI Corp.'s SRII, I think his name should be added to this page. Link: http://www.atariprotos.com/5200/software/tlsf/tlsf.htm

• AbbotKinneyDude — 11 Aug 2020

  @Colin. Get a life! Nothing prevents you from playing Aric Wilmunder's STAR RAIDERS II: http://www.atarimania.com/game-atari-400-800-xl-xe-star-raiders-ii_30426.html?version=30426

• Nexus6 — 12 May 2020

  This is one of the best games on Atari 8bit machines.

• Colin — 7 May 2020

  This was suppose to be The Last Starfighter It is a crap game! and doesn't came anywhere near the superior StarRaiders

• steve — 23 Oct 2016

  Great game, one of those Atari games that rose above the rest due to its infectious gameplay. Graphics served well along with sound, the gameplay however shone through.

• Azghouls — 29 May 2016

  I thought this game was harder than Star Raiders :( I scored a couple of times Star Commander 1 in Star Raiders however just barely scrape through difficulty level 2 here. Has anyone knocked off difficulty level 3? My tactic for level 2 is head straight to Zylon system and nuke as many cities as possible in the shortest time. However that didn't work well under level 3.

• Paul — 22 Apr 2011

  How do I open a .ROM file? I really want to play this great classic game.

• Kevin — 17 Mar 2011

  Awesome!

• lotek style — 1 Apr 2010

  Very addictive game. I played this really a lot in my childhood :)

• Andreas Koch — 18 Jul 2009

  I got an Atari 800XL at XMAS 1984 and when I got a tape recorder eight months later, this game became one of my favourites. The gfx are much better than in Star Raiders, alas there are only three levels (ten levels would have been much nicer)... -Andreas Koch.

• Nixon — 16 Apr 2006

  I liked the last Starfighter Version better since it was featured(not the 8bit game itself though) in that real cool movie with that title:D

• Andrew Berstein — 5 Mar 2005

  Both the cartridge and disk versions are amazingly only 16ko. Quite an achievement. Note for Daniel Cadiz: SR2 is easier than the first Star Raiders but it's much more of an action game, less of a simulation (The previous Last Starfighter release is even more of an action game for those who want to try).

• Daniel Cádiz — 6 Feb 2005

  Probably it's the best game of starships that I've played in Atari. In comparision with the predecesor game, Star Raiders II it's very much easiest and the graphics are really better than Star Raiders.

• Andy Bernstein — 6 Jul 2004

  An interesting article which points out the differences between Star Raiders II and its true predecessor, The Last Starfighter, can be found at the following address: http://www.atarihq.com/atcomp/lastsr2.html

• The Doctor — 16 Jun 2004

  Liberty Star, Gun Star...Celos IV, Rylos---it's all the same to me...all in all though both games are quite enjoyable to play.