#342

[@ChadQuick270W]

Loved those color vector games! They looked so impressive in a dark arcade. Tempest was my favorite of them all.

[@tntamusements]

We have a couple Tempest videos you should watch!

[@thenoodler]

Morris’s wigs don’t come off! Even in hurricane winds.

[@chrisstory563]

those Vector games are fantastic back in the 80's but I bet they're break down more often.

[@tntamusements]

They did...because they were on all the time...now, in a private home, they are not driven so much!

[@chrisstory563]

that's makes sense

[@jumpingeneral]

The force is in TNT 🧨😎

[@ThomasGrillo]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing this.

[@SonnyGTA]

Wow!! Your daughter is growing up! She's great at the commercials!!

[@rarecoolitems]

Great video. That is a great game. If they made more games like this kids would come back to the arcade!

[@tntamusements]

The cockpit versions are still out there...but very few have survived! Yes, we have had a few pass through TNT!

[@jeremypruitt3989]

Incredible!!

[@AnalogX64]

I love this game....maybe one day..I'll buy one

[@BxSin67]

I love your channel!! And your awesome my friend! Love all the videos! This is my History channel of games! and how it's made and works!

[@tntamusements]

BxSin67 Thank you!! Subscribe and keep watching!

[@160rpm]

I like that it almost looks like the effects stuff in the actual movies

[@tntamusements]

Yes...great visuals with this game for sure!!

[@tntamusements]

You are right!!

[@retrodavide]

Steven's masterpiece!

[@jasonbyrd-retronerd]

I just came into one of these cabinets. It is all original, a little banged up, but for the most part it is really nice and all the art work is fine. Every time I turn it on a fuse blows and I really do not know anything about working on these machines. I was curious if you could give me a ball park idea of what it may be worth as is. Any info you could give me is appreciated. It may be a super simple fix. The fuse that blows is labeled F3 and it is the only one that blows consistently.

[@DirtyxLarry]

My father bought me this is a child birthday present. The screen went blank but the game is running? What is usually the common cause for this? Where do I begin testing?

[@klong1972]

I would really like to have one of these games.

[@tntamusements]

Its VERY collectible now!

[@blagtr]

I see you got the LV 2000. Tired of R 100s burning up the Pcb 314 lol? Do you sell the monitors by themselves? (I need a 19v2000 xy)

[@tntamusements]

blagtr We are in the same boat...not enough monitors left these days!

[@tntamusements]

That video is tomorrow! Todd

[@exodia9817]

+TNT Amusement Inc Wise about arcade games, you are. Good technician for The Republic, you could be. Always be with you, The Force will be. Always with you, The Force is.

[@tntamusements]

Thank you sir!!

[@rickyarte]

hi dear! is there some way to start the machine like a real front end start engine cabinet using a pc emulation? (without the initiation of the windows operating system, starting direct from the game when turn on the machine) cause i´m building my first vintage arcade replica

[@tntamusements]

not sure...maybe a viewer out there can help?

[@georgef551]

Death Star detonation never appeared full on any cabinet I've seen. Too many lines for "Persistence of Vision" to work. Ever wonder how they get the whole screen to flash gray when you take a hit? You'll notice the 4 blue dots in the corners of the playfield. If you align them properly on the horizontal dimensions, you'll get the gray flashes. This game takes advantage of a flaw in CRTS where any beam that's far overscanned hits the sides of the glass, the light diffuses and lights up the phosphors, mostly on the side that's being overscanned. In the case of Star Wars, on the far left and right of the playfield, there's an added bright fat white vertical line not part of the playfield itself (hence why it's not in MAME, for example). These fat lines are drawn on those sides of the CRT, which diffuses through the CRT, producing a fairly consistent grayish overtone. Of course, linearity and consistency in geometry will affect the purity of the grayness. The reason I know this is I played a cockpit version where the horizontal width was way too short, entirely square, which shows you how the "Gray" thing happens. In that case, there's not a gray flash, you just see the fat white bars on the extreme sides. There's a video somewhere of a guy showing that this game can be rendered on an oscilloscope, and when he took damage, the white bars, albeit thin on the scope, were there.

[@tntamusements]

Thanks for this neat trivia...many were certainly enlightened today!

[@georgef551]

@@tntamusements Of course, now that I want to show a link, none exists. There are videos of the game on the scope, but they don't show damage, or the scopes are overscanned. Only when it matters. :) If you got another game, set the horizontal width really small, you'll see what it is. :)

[@transtremm]

A, "Black Knight" tease in background?

[@teamtrump8221]

How many did Atari make?

[@tntamusements]

They made 10,245 uprights, and 2450 cockpit models! Assume 1/4 of them have survived. Here is a link to all the Atari Game Production numbers...you may find this veru interesting, especially the price. Star Wars was closed out at $1695 when it stopped selling! www.atarigames.com/atarinumbers90s.pdf

[@Astinsan]

Empire strikes back came out after

[@tntamusements]

$2299

[@tejj5957]

those dudes are so rude lmao