I played this game a lot on the Atari 2600. As a kid it was fun to play this game in the dark, pretending you were in command of a starship - protecting star bases, resupplying, going through asteroid fields etc. Played the Colecovision version later on, and enjoyed it a little more, that is until I discovered EGA Trek a few years later.
I never played the arcade version, although the arcade near me had the arcade version - I was always playing Star Wars Arcade.