Space Wars is a shooter game released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1977.

The hardware developed for Space Wars became the platform for most of the vector-based arcade games from Cinematronics.

The game offered a number of gameplay options, including the presence or absence of a star in the middle of the playfield (which exerted a positive or negative gravitational pull), whether the edges of the playfield wrapped around to their opposite sides, and whether shells bounced.

[7] Electronic Fun with Computers & Games magazine gave the Atari VCS version a C rating in 1982.

[8] Space Wars formed the basis of the platform used by Cinematronics for their subsequent black-and-white vector games such as Star Castle and Tail Gunner.