Beamrider is a fixed shooter written for the Intellivision by David Rolfe and published by Activision in 1983.

The player's objective is to clear the Shield's 99 sectors of alien craft while piloting the Beamrider ship.

The Beamrider is equipped with a short-range laser lariat and a limited supply of torpedoes.

Activision offered a Beamrider patch to players who could get to Sector 14 with 40,000 points and sent in a screenshot of their accomplishment.

[1] The Deseret News in 1984 gave the ColecoVision version of Beamrider three stars, describing it as "basically a slide-and-shoot space game.