Space Lords

To play, a player first starts the game as the pilot of the ship. A second player can then join as a co-pilot. The pilot controls the speed and direction of the ship as well as firing lasers and bombs across the screen. The "Hyperspace" control can be used to dodge such weapons.

The co-pilot, if playing, can act as a gunner. The co-pilot has a targeting reticle used to fire off-center at targets of opportunity. The targeting reticle does not remain stationary relative to the player's ship, but stationary relative to the surroundings, which means that it goes to the edge of the screen as soon as the player's ship makes a turn if the co-pilot does not compensate. The addition of a co-pilot enables the "Cloak" button and adds one extra bomb and one extra hyperspace for the ship.

The game is played in an "arena". Each arena in the game is spherical and traveling long enough in one direction brings a player back to the spot they started from. Arenas have two environmental elements: nebulae and asteroids.

Players can hide in nebulae to be undetectable on opponent players' radars. The computer-controlled ships are also fooled by this. The player in the nebula, however, has his own radar jammed, so they can not see what is approaching. The nebulae does not stop lasers. When hiding like this, the player's Energy stores do not regenerate.

RePlay reported Space Lords to be the seventh most-popular upright arcade game at the time.