Source: Wikipedia, "Space Race (arcade game)", available under the CC-BY-SA License. Space Race is the second arcade game created by Atari (the first was Pong). It was released in July, 1973. The two players each control a rocket ship; the object of the game is to make it from the bottom of the screen to the top, while avoiding obstacles such as asteroids. Score is kept electronically and the background consists of a simple starfield.