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Who remembers this game?

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The Star Wars arcade game from 1983. With vector graphics!

http://youtu.be/jHUToeQykp0
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Never played it... but I was just reading an article about another Atari game of that era.
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I owned the Atari E.T game :D

And I loved that Star Wars game. Spent plenty of time on both! :mrgreen:
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I got good at the follow-up "The Empire Strikes Back" game - the trick was not to shoot the AT-ATs at all on the second wave, just fly though their legs for ever-increasing score multipliers ...
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I played one of these games on a home computer in those days. Cannot really remember which one it was, but I do remember that it was nowhere as fast as the one shown in that video.
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The one in the video is the higher levels. It just repeated the same game over and over getting faster each time with each new level/completion.
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Ah, that explains it. Also, I was evidently not very good at it... :oops:
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I remember the sit-in cabinet version fondly. Spent a lot of money playing that game.
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JazHaz wrote:
I remember the sit-in cabinet version fondly. Spent a lot of money playing that game.
Me too. :) The force was strong in my wallet.

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I too remember the cabinet. I was quite young and had not played any video games when I tried it. Didn't get very far as I tried to shoot the death star from the distance when I was supposed to shoot the tie-fighters :lol:. Few years later played both games on C64 and it was a lot easier when you knew what to do. There was also Return of the Jedi game but that was not in vector graphics.
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Takes me back to when there was amusement arcades on the high street of all towns or cities. Now you will only find them on the sea front or in major out of city shopping centres.

I also liked Hard Drivin' which I played a lot before I was even legal to drive. I like to think that it helped when it came to learning to drive for real.
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I feel old! The first arcade game I played was Periscope - the mid-sixties forerunner of Sea Devil and Sea Wolf.
I found it in the local ten-pin bowling alley, the place where my mis-spent youth really began.
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JazHaz wrote:
I remember the sit-in cabinet version fondly. Spent a lot of money playing that game.
Oh god, so did I. And it was the second-coolest game at the arcade (the coolest being the laser-disc game "Firefox").
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Ranthe wrote:
JazHaz wrote:
I remember the sit-in cabinet version fondly. Spent a lot of money playing that game.
Oh god, so did I. And it was the second-coolest game at the arcade (the coolest being the laser-disc game "Firefox").
Firefox did NOT come anywhere near to being as cool as the cabinet version of Star Wars. 8)
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