1983 Atari Starwars Arcade Highscore Run!

1983 Atari Starwars Arcade Highscore Run!

[@MavHunter20XX]

holly crap, this is impressive for 1983

[@jkfns0w]

Immense thanks for showing this, the most memorable arcade game I played in my early teens; in my case it was a seated enclosed version with full yoke and embedded fire buttons. Oh, I remember it all - frustration galore to navigate that bloody trench. In the few times I played I could never destroy the Death Star. So it’s such a thrill decades later to see thing explode in all its vector glory!

[@JohnCoctoasten85]

I heard "l lost R2" way too many times playing this. lol

[@kirkguille]

Amazing graphics for the year/system it was made.. Absolutely stunned.

[@richardwicks4190]

There was Astron Belt released at the same time. That was a laserdisc video game, but its integration with the control was better than Dragon's Lair or Space Ace in my opinion.

[@ChadQuick270W]

Nothing could top those color vector games from Atari. They just rocked! Especially in a dark arcade. Played this one and Tempest a lot.

[@robertdavies5139]

I remember playing this and getting to level 8 just like the guy in the video. I was insane! the trench run was nearly impossible especially due to the wire-frames making it really difficult to work out where the gaps were! awesome game :)

[@mp3ste1]

best days 80's arcade days, i used to love this couldnt play it but i loved it, nice play, good memories

[@hiseminencetheholymacdiarmada]

I played the hell outta this game back in the day, but I was never this good at it, well done!

[@malafakka8530]

I grew up in the 80's but I never heard of this game. It looks absolutely amazing for its time. Great graphics and animation.

[@MattMcIrvin]

It was one of the greatest Atari vector games. There was a stand-up version and a sit-down cockpit. Funspot in Weirs Beach, NH has both versions operating today.

[@dusty56g]

thank you for posting this, as a small kid this is what I pumped quarters into. I was able to buy the stand up version in 98 but bad divorce sent a bowling ball through the monitor and never saw it again. I would love to play this game one more time.

[@wodge73]

Thank you for posting this! That story was funny... Just think, you could have bought the sit down version if you hadn't married her ... And you'd still have it! :)

[@RAGINxxXxxCAJUN]

Damn you owned that. Nice upload

[@YouthfulElf]

I remember seeing that game for the first time at a favorite pizza parlor as a nine year old boy! I loved everything about this video game and played it every chance I got! The Star Wars arcade games had to be some of the best vector-based type games!

[@therealdonaldtrumpjr]

Incredible for 1983, looks better than some indie games on steam now

[@borismoof6282]

I was seriously addicted to this in the mid 80s. Used to spend all my lunch breaks from my YTS job playing it. Herne Bay amusements made a fortune out of me :)

[@Archiemonty]

Ah, this game so brings back arcade memories!

[@retro38]

the torpedo shot at 6:22-----impressive. most impressive!

[@awwhitworth]

Every year, holiday at Bridlington, straight to this game!! I still get the same excited feeling to see it again after all these years! Would love to find an arcade with it still there!!

[@acidpurewarrior]

Look at the size of that thing!

[@DPMaintenance]

I just bought this machine off of ebay for 2000.00 with rebuilt monitor and power supply cabinet art is in excellent shape I am so dam excited....lol

[@piratestation69]

nothing like the good old days... sure it was simple but it was FUN... much better than todays crap video games.

[@njsullyalex2744]

You are pretty good at Star Wars Arcade! I played the Star Wars Arcade cabinet we have at our house tonight, and my high score was 1,014,535!

[@moesyzslak2939]

2019 And this game is still dope in my top 10 you had to take a back seat to the older kids before playing

[@Chanamasalex117]

Awesome run! I usually played the ol black n white version, on my Mac Plus. Vector graphics ftw!

[@alroulexe4996]

This takes me right back to Boscombe pier arcade - amazing then, in the sit-in cabinet, still seems great even now..

[@jayterry6767]

i love that game star wars arcade atari 1983

[@derekabdullah9253]

I play this arcade game when. I was a teen l still love this arcade game to this day im still. Old school

[@Blitzwing83]

I've never seen this until now, but must say those are outstanding graphics for a 1983 game

[@willard73]

Great job kid that was 1.5 million! 😃

[@rddav1]

I use to play this in my freshman year at the University of Houston campus arcade. Spent more time on this machine than studying! Ah....1983!

[@blairquinney214]

Navigating the trench gets abject KRAZY at the end. The last two runs were just ridiculous.

[@vindog442]

81 million, played overnight at a 7-11. Only trumped by a delivery dolly that ran over the plug. Got my quarter back too!!! Had a ton of free slurpees from the overnight clerk as well. 16 hours unforgettable.

[@robertthomas5736]

Look closely at the Death Star on approach, the message on the station says, May The Force be with You

[@SirTermos]

You didn't stand that long? Must have been one of those classy sit down cabinets! Really pricey now :-))

[@georgef551]

My peak was at 15 and 16 (before the game went away). Thing is, once you got past Wave 11, the later waves are just segments of 7 through 11 in some order. (Tie Fighter scene might be wave 8, towars could be 10, trench 9, for example.)

[@michaelmills6271]

Oh how I remembered this old school video Game called Star wars. I only made it to level 3 then I died as Luke Skywalker. And I joined with all the Jedi Master's.

[@uncletaylorify]

God only knows how many quarters/tokens I spent playing this game during my childhood.

[@DPMaintenance]

Great game play but default shield was 6 - 9 is a huge advantage you changed the boardset jumper settings :) I own an upright as well :)

[@Chrisaaad]

Memories from the underwater arcade at Disneyland hotel in 1986

[@poeboy2]

Still my favorite Star Wars game of all time.

[@wallsttech6881]

Death Star {Respawn}

[@georgef551]

My besr Star Wars Run: 1987 or 1988. 2.5 hours on one credit (had to quit, because parents were done shopping. Could've gone longer!) Score: Over 8.5M. Typical average was about 4M points.

[@Payasoplas]

When game develpers understand that A Star Wars video game should be about replicating the feeling of being the pilot of X-Wing fighters, then Stars Wars game will stop sucking...

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Payasoplas TIE* Maarek Stele for lyf!

[@10p6]

I wish they would have made an arcade perfect port of this for the Atari Jaguar.

[@scherzox]

Is it the sit-in one?

[@porkwilliam]

Jeez, the money I wasted on this game when I was a kid!

[@WillScarlet1991]

+Pork William Atari thanks you :D

[@lindenly22]

It was a video game that paid homage to George Lucas’ creations and the movie saga that enamoured millions of its fans---the video game was Star Wars, and when I played my first plays at the machine, I can recall the cheesy computer music that played the iconic background of music made popular by John Williams---the Star Wars theme, and the Dark Side theme. The first part of the game focuses on you as a X-wing rebel fighter pilot, Luke Skywalker, the iconic character in the movie, and the object is to destroy as many enemy Imperial tie fighters as possible under the signature distant background of the Death Star planet. After this part is cleared, you go into the Death Star itself and try to fight obstacles and enemies that are trying to destroy you, and you need to destroy the exhaust port as you leave the Death Star or you have to go through the second part again. Destroying the exhaust port means you destroy the Death Star and the stage is cleared. Then there is the 2nd stage, and then the 3rd stage, and each stage gets harder and harder. The game ends when you lose your last shield and you get a direct hit from an enemy obstacle or an enemy fireball.

[@DPMaintenance]

no the sit down one I like the stand up for taking up less room in my basement but the sit down ones seem to priced from 5 thousand and up.

[@525Lines]

Ya play, kid is all I could hear when Han is saying You're all clear, kid. Great arcade game, though.

[@DPMaintenance]

Hey Retro you get an 800, 000 bonus if you do the trench run in high difficulty setting without firing a shot for using the force.

[@johnsmith8829]

what memories from skegness pier in England

[@aduffield]

I was thinking the exact same thing

[@scherzox]

He probably owns the machine.

[@peterskyw]

i need this arcade......i love it

[@PartisanArtisan]

NICE.

[@illuminatioracle]

lol out of nowhere: luke, trust me. okay

[@SirTermos]

Nice one, how old were you back then? :-)))

[@georgef551]

In that case, it was, but I've stood for hour-long plays. It's funny, I'll just quote this from 1988: Guy says to me, "How many shields do you start with?" Me: "Six". Guy: "How many do you get after completing a level?" Me: "One", Guy: "...and you're on level 35?!" Me: "Yep!"

[@keithsmove]

awesome game!

[@frankrizzo890]

Back "in the day", (when this game was NEW), a friend and I used to have epic battles. He would get 10 million, I would get 15 million. I got 25 million one day, and we called a truce, as it was getting ridiculous.

[@DannySeventySeven]

See that's where I went wrong. I never used the force. D'oh.

[@JoeBlow-ii5ph]

0:30 nice hit.

[@retro38]

the farthest I have ever seen someone go on this game. Great playing! However,I did notice one thing:in some of the trench runs you didn't shoot the fireballs.

[@DPMaintenance]

hey Retro I see this comment is 9 years old lol but if you ever get updates you got a 100 000 bonus for not shooting anything in the trench run using the force until the end!

[@kennytaylor5849]

Love this game

[@Booruvcheek]

Whoa, so much noise!

[@lightorchestrator]

Man the strobing light effects are kind of annoying. Reminds me of the pokemon episode that triggers seizures.

[@somebose7395]

Level 7 good u have to turn right left fast

[@RICO37able]

If uploaded a vid of the mame-version on Android phone and a short vid of a FREEWARE re-make i just discovered earlier. Check it out if ya want.

[@andrewcruz7595]

*uh bro they forgot the Game textures*

[@GranulatedStuff]

1979 ?

[@RICO37able]

huh , are they not the same ? mame and arcade

[@RICO37able]

I See , i have it emulated with mame on my Android smartphone and yeah the explosion sucks compared to this one :( Where can i get hold of the arcade version for mame , all i know is that there are " revised" versions ...whatever that means. i have rev 2 on my phone btw.

[@luelaify]

Is there an ending to this game or does it just keep going till you die, like pacman

[@blairquinney214]

It was around 1988 before I knew a coin-op video game could have an ending. For the first like 17 years there were no endings. Like LIFE. You just keep going til you die. Something's going to get you eventually.

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

Even games with "endings" didn't really have them, you still went into tougher loops, like B-wing, ASO, Raiden. Time Pilot and Time Soldier did a nice meta joke on it that justified the loop due to time travel. I'm not aware of the first that truly ended, but the first I encountered was Renegade (side scroller like Double Dragon but based more on hong kong style police films)

[@billydusquid]

Yes I agree Whole Heartedly !! There are some that should give up the Blogs !! Buy a Pin Ball Machine !! And go for the Highest Score there Instead !!!!..YODEL AY DE WHOO!!

[@juristjavisst]

2:05 100.000 pts "for using the force" Anyone know what you had to do to achieve that?

[@chrismcgourty1756]

Not shoot the xwing fire in the trench, same for all runs.

[@xasthur98]

SOME GAME!!

[@travis938]

8:28 lol 4th place

[@detonator2112]

That's a fantastic game, even by today's standards. Star Wars, Battlezone, Gravitar, Asteroids and Tempest have all kept their appeal. PS: 7th wave isn't that tough... give it some practice. When you master 7th and 8th round perfectly, then you're able to play this game as long as you want.

[@paulty27]

How the hell can you have 9 shields ?....what cheat you using mate ?

[@Poglavnit_Pferdefuhrer]

paulty27 that's set by the owner, grab a copy on MAME and check the config, 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

[@WPGinterceptor460Interceptor]

ive lost R2

[@reubenguttenberg7405]

There is no real ending

[@mdanangp]

smosh

[@dcfan1107]

Same sound effects as Tempest.

[@ShadowsOfTheParanormal]

Lol haha I feel lucky iv got an arcade machine with over 2000 games everyone u can think off including this one cost 2000 dollars

[@andiroidYT]

Playing Star Wars on anything other than an original cabinet is sacrilage. The screen technology has never been bettered.

[@andiroidYT]

Playing Star Wars on anything other than an original cabinet is sacrilage. The screen technology has never been bettered.

[@andiroidYT]

Playing Star Wars on anything other than an original cabinet is sacrilage. The screen technology has never been bettered.

[@vindog442]

More like mediocre run. Routinely got over 5 million at this setting..high of 81 million on an easy setting undone by a delivery boy tripping over the plug after an all nighter. LOL- got my quarter back after 20 hours of playing.

[@gamewizardks]

+Vincent Kondo Most folks can't do better than wave 3 or 4. This is a decent run.