The player has five buttons: two to rotate the ship left or right, one to shoot, one to activate the thruster, and one for force field.

A port of Space Duel was released on the Atari Flashback 2, reproducing only the single-player mode.

[2] Two teenage boys are shown playing the game in the Cagney & Lacey episode "Beyond the Golden Door" (airdate April 8, 1982).

There is a poster for Space Duel hanging in the bedroom of Dustin Henderson in the TV show Stranger Things.

[3][4] Sam McNear holds the official world record for 1 single Player, Double Ship Style version with 403,610 points.