This page is about the arcade game Reactor. Reactor is a raster video arcade game released in 1982 by Gottlieb. The object of the game is to cool down the reactor core without being hurled by magnetism and repulsion by enemy swarms of nuclear particles.Reactor was developed by Tim Skelly, who was also responsible for Star Castle and Solar Quest. It was the first arcade game to credit the developer on the game's title screen.