Atari Star Wars Arcade Cockpit Vector Art
The on rails vector fps was a huge hit for atari.
Atari star wars arcade cockpit vector art. And then there was star wars. Gen x folks may remember hitting the arcade with a pile of quarters and hoping to sit down in an x wing cockpit to take down as many tie fighters as they could. Star wars side art image star wars pcb image. Games like tempest battlezone and quantum were some of my favorites.
Jbrew spot verified by. You aim an on screen cursor at. Star wars and the empire strikes back are both vector graphics games that put you in the first person cockpit of an x wing a snowspeeder and the millennium falcon. Revisit your childhood at the arcade with this retro conversion project.
I have not tried to piece together the cabinet so while the plans look great and the measurements spot check well the complexity of this cabinet. Cabinet measurements provided by. I loved shooting. Developed during the golden age of arcade games star wars has been included on lists of the greatest video games of all time.
The cabinet drew the eye with dueling x wings and tie fighters framingthe iconic logo. Atari released 139 different machines in our database under this trade name starting in 1972. I always loved playing atari s vector based arcade games back in the 1980s. Released in 1983 in both standup and cockpit configurations atari s star wars game was a unique presence in 80s arcades shopping centres and movie theatre lobbies.
Arcade arcade cabinets atari star wars cockpit. It uses 3d color vector graphics to simulate the assault on the death star from the 1977 film star wars. Everything was within 1 8. Other machines made by atari during the time period star wars was produced include cloak dagger i robot tollian web cloud 9 firebeast aka dragon master gravitar atari force liberator.
Star wars is a first person rail shooter designed by mike hally and released in arcades by atari inc.