is a first person shoot 'em up video game released in 1983 for Atari 8-bit computers and Commodore 64 programmed by Paul Woakes for Novagen Software.
The gameplay is similar to that of Atari, Inc.'s 1980 arcade game Battlezone, but with large, sometimes screen-filling, scaled bitmaps instead of wireframe models.
Enemies appear one at a time, highlighted on the radar below the main view, and a counter shows how many remain to complete the level.
In 1983, he called Bruce Jordan who was owner of the Birmingham Atari Centre and asked him he would be interested in helping him publish Encounter!.
A retrospective review in Retro Gamer stated: "Playing out the mechanics of Battlezone at what seems like a thousand miles per hour, and with filled, solid objects zooming in and out of the screen, Encounter!