Omega Race is a shoot ’em up arcade video game designed by Ron Haliburton and released in 1981 by Midway. It is the only arcade game with vector graphics that Midway created.
Omega Race was ported to the VIC-20 and Commodore 64 and published by Commodore in 1982. In 1983, ColecoVision and Atari 2600 versions were released by CBS Electronics.
The Atari 2600 cartridge came bundled with a “booster grip” controller which converted the single-button Atari CX40 joystick to having separate buttons for thrust and shoot. Omega Race is one of a few CBS games for the Atari 2600 with an additional 256 bytes of RAM in each cartridge, a feature promoted by CBS as “RAM Plus.”
