One of the first game cartridges (and video game consoles) to feature a 'novice' to 'hard' setting.
The aliens of this game are called Zylons. The villains of "Battlestar Galactica" (1978) were the Cylons.
Glitch: The game will freeze and all the colors will change to their chromatic opposites when left on PAUSE too long.
To alert the player that a star base is destroyed, music notes are played. The scales are reverse order of the mothership song from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977).
Fans have pointed out the title is similar to two of Lucasfilm's most successful, scifi/action franchises. "Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977) and "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981).