Is Space War 2000 on Steam?

No. Space War 2000 is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.

What platforms is Space War 2000 on?

Space War 2000 is available on Atari Jaguar.

When did Space War 2000 release?

Space War 2000 was first released on December 31, 2001.

Space War 2000

Dec 31, 2001Atari Jaguar

Space War 2000 — frequently asked questions

Is Space War 2000 on Steam?: No. Space War 2000 is not distributed on Steam, so there is no Steam Charts or SteamDB player count for it. Its live popularity is tracked here via Twitch viewership instead.
What platforms is Space War 2000 on?: Space War 2000 is available on Atari Jaguar.
When did Space War 2000 release?: Space War 2000 was first released on December 31, 2001.

About Space War 2000

As a space knight, you will vie for glory, honor, fame and fortune in this one- or two-player first-person perspective 3D jousting adventure. Procure multiple weapons anhd cool defensive items in your quest to rank with other valiant knights on the High Score Table.

Summary via IGDB.

Space War 2000 on Wikipedia

Space War 2000 is an unreleased first-person space combat simulation video game developed and originally planned to be published by Atari Corporation on a scheduled November 1995 release date exclusively for the Atari Jaguar. It is an update by Robert Zdybel of Ian Shepard's 1978 Atari 2600 game Space War. In the game, players assume the role of a space knight to fight against other opponents.

Source: Wikipedia (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

Game details

Platforms: Atari Jaguar

Details via IGDB.

Collector value & authenticity

Atari Jaguar · PriceCharting sold data · Verified 2026-07-24

Loose

$39

Complete

$125

Sealed

$250

Region: WW
Released: 2001
Authenticity: Med

Never re-released — the original cartridge is the only way to playMedium counterfeit risk

Atari Jaguar prices, all games & how to spot a fake

Atari's own cancelled game, shipped by the community five years after Atari ceased to exist.

Designed at Atari by Chris Thompson, Lance J. Lewis, and Robert Zdybel, announced for November 1995, and killed as the company wound down. B&C ComputerVisions released it in 2001 — the third of four commercially cancelled Jaguar games (with Protector, Skyhammer, and Phase Zero) that shipped as real boxed retail products after Hasbro's May 1999 open-platform declaration. Most dead consoles leave their cancelled software in a vault; the Jaguar's community went and got it — finding developers on Usenet, licensing from rights holders, tracking down staff after studios dissolved.

How it was made

Atari Corporation developed the Atari Jaguar version, published by Original release Relaunch. Credited: designed by Chris Thompson, Lance J. Lewis, Robert Zdybel.

Cartridge & preservation record

Cartridge ROM capacity 16 megabit (2 MB), measured from the preserved cartridge image.

Cartridge data from the No-Intro preservation database (metadata only — names, sizes and checksums, no game data).

Worth knowing

It was Star Raiders 2000 until it stopped resembling Star Raiders. Announced in 1994 as Star Raiders 2000 and shown at SCES that year in a very early state. Atari Explorer Online writers Keita Iida and Tal Funke-Bilu recorded that the project drifted so far from its source material that Atari renamed it. Atari veteran Robert Zdybel — who had written Warbirds for the Lynx — led it, with tester Lance J. and artist Chris Thompson.
Finished, rated, and killed by a focus group. It slipped from March 1995 to Q2, then September, then October or November, while Atari kept advertising it and demonstrating it at its Fun 'n' Games Day. Jeff Minter reported it nearly complete in June 1995 and it had already been rated by the ESRB. Then, according to 4Play's Scott Le Grand and Douglas Engel, it was quietly shelved after being panned by testers in an internal Atari focus group — in favour of 4Play's own BattleSphere.
It survived because Atari sold its hard drives. During Atari's 1996 inventory clear-out, Bruce Carso of B&C Computervisions bought a hard disk from the company. A copy reached collector Glenn Bruner, and in September 2001 B&C published a playable build as a cartridge-only release. A game cancelled by focus group exists today because the company that cancelled it sold off its own storage.

Before you buy

A post-commercial B&C release with a small run — label it as post-commercial in any listing, and verify current availability before paying secondary prices. These are licensed, boxed, manufactured products of games that officially never existed — which is exactly the story to lead a listing with.

Authenticity & condition — Atari Jaguar

Specific to the format this title shipped in

Buying a Jaguar cartridge

Cartridges are the durable half of this library — the risk is provenance, not decay. The platform has an active post-commercial scene, so the question is usually which era a cartridge is from rather than whether it still works.

Ask for a photo of the label edge and the cartridge back. Reproductions are usually printed on adhesive photo stock and sit proud of the label recess.
Donor shells are the common trick: sanding marks on the back, or adhesive ghosting where an older label was lifted, are the strongest signals.
Cartridges are region-free on this platform, so a cheaper PAL copy plays on a North American console — a price difference is not evidence of a fake.