These old Vector games have a unique aesthetic all their own
@detonator211212 жыл бұрын
Mike Hally is a genius. He designed all the best arcade games ever: Star Wars, Gravitar and Empire Strikes Back are simply amazing. These games are 100% class.
@ninelivecat12 жыл бұрын
Kids now days have everything now all at once but in the 80's technology was just emerging so each year brought something new and dynamic In many ways It was probably a more exciting time to be a kid Going to the arcade was a special treat at the weekend and the prospect of seeing a new game.
@tomy.18462 жыл бұрын
Very true! Graphics got better and better, now we have deepfake technology, what's next?
@ChadQuick270W12 жыл бұрын
Nothing better than those color vector games. They all looked so damn sharp and crisp. I played a lot of this and Star Wars and Tempest at Aladdin's Castle way back when.
@jugglingembalmer7 жыл бұрын
Color vector graphics are so hypnotizing.
@ab9pdonteh12 жыл бұрын
@Bazookatone1 The CRT used for this type of thing gives direct control of the gun deflection so it can draw a solid line between two points instead of rendering it to a pixel buffer. That's why you don't see any scan-line flicker even though it's recorded through a camera. It's impossible to reproduce on a regular TV or computer monitor because even a super high resolution will still have to be turned into pixels.
@MxArgent12 жыл бұрын
It's pretty damn impressive what the fellows at Atari did with the hardware they had.
@PuGoRaPTR Жыл бұрын
good pfp
@carlosparacio56796 жыл бұрын
This was my FAVORITE arcade game when this came out. It had a special controller yoke that made it so much fun.
@billthecat666 Жыл бұрын
I've only seen pictures of this in magazines. Thanks for posting.
@nicklambert50592 жыл бұрын
I never really played Empire but Star wars Arcade machine was amazing and to this day is still a firm favourite with me. 🙂
@marklubek51512 жыл бұрын
The way the atats moved. That was incredible for the time
@ScareMeSexy7116 жыл бұрын
the psychadelic colour scheme used to give me such a rush as a kid as did the audio soundbites and the tiny music that was soooooooo loud in 80's arcade
@Kalphoenix10 жыл бұрын
I can only imagine how awesome this would have been to play at the time (I think it is pretty awesome now). While we had the 2600, I was a little young with overprotective parents to hit the arcade for some of these fantastic classics. Thank you for the share. Amazing!
@dunkjf2 жыл бұрын
Cockpit version of this was awesome in tbe early 80's, so loud "use the force luke" 😂😂👌
@BeedeePizzle16 жыл бұрын
This is the Atari arcade version form 1984/85. It is running on a 25'' vector monitor. In the original Star Wars cockpit machine.
@eol66322 жыл бұрын
It's looks better in person. Those wrap around arcade cabs were great
@techtinkerin2 жыл бұрын
This was years ahead of its time😊❤️
@BeedeePizzle11 жыл бұрын
It was technically a conversion for the original Star Wars boardset, but at the time there was no way to run them both due to security IC's and the like. It wasn't until years later that a mod was developed to run them both on the same board.
@deoglemnaco7025 Жыл бұрын
My dad tried to make that happen. Would wind up taking his own life as he couldn’t get it to work
@mebossyounothing13 жыл бұрын
wow for 1985 this gfx where outstanding, very nice coded game !!!
@katakisLives13 жыл бұрын
Vector graphics rule! I'd love to see them stage some kind of comeback
@amcaesar2 жыл бұрын
I can smell the carpet of the arcade right now.
@stephp62216 жыл бұрын
Those aren't the meteorites you're looking for. If I had seen this game, it would have eaten all my quarters.
@theopenrift2 жыл бұрын
This is why I wish I grew up in the 80s...
@MrHavokman12 жыл бұрын
Love the sounds
@diggerpete93349 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this this very game at the local amusement arcade back in 1985 when I was 17.
@ednguyen38223 жыл бұрын
Wow. Never seen this arcade game before! Must have been really rare!
@km9OOO15 жыл бұрын
Looking at the simplistic graphics of games from that era, it feels so ancient, and yet so recent. Kids today are so spoiled.
@blumbino12 жыл бұрын
Never got a chance to see or play this as a kid. Only had the Star Wars machine locally. Nice to finally see it.
@lsk-nf7um Жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I played this I was at the mall think I was waiting for a movie Goonies or Fright Night to be 15 and out for summer break again! Good Times.
@sandal_thong86312 жыл бұрын
I loved arcade games that talked and had multiple stages like Gorf.
@AlexR-ATG12 жыл бұрын
@danond: Actually, I have star wars rogue squadron 3, and if you play well enough, you can unlock all of the classic star wars arcades. So with that, there might still be hope for these old school games to be known.
@leefran717 жыл бұрын
i only ever saw this once,think it was an arcade in Scarborough,probably mid 80's,only found out many years later that some of the original star wars machines had been modified to play this.I can see why there wasn't that many with this change done,as while it was okay to maybe play once or twice,it's not a patch on the original game.Its still great to see it once again though,thanks for posting!
@WebVManReturns12 жыл бұрын
Old Vector based games still amaze me to this day as well as games that look similar like Blaster, Lawnmower Man, and Virtual Boy games.
@garyhunt96009 жыл бұрын
Don't remember seeing this at the arcade
@AshleyPomeroy7 жыл бұрын
It was only sold as a conversion kit for the original Star Wars machine, so it was really rare.
@jstephenj7 жыл бұрын
This game was also released when Star Wars was in something of a dark period, as there were no new movies on the horizon.
@dougcl_4 жыл бұрын
If only it would have remained in that dark period.
@JohnSmith-eq2tf4 жыл бұрын
Lol
@gothicfan5112 жыл бұрын
At the start I was like, "Holy shit, I didn't know A2600 was so powerful. Even NES wasn't" but then I realized this was a arcade.
@justinmillard81962 жыл бұрын
Wow! I’ve never seen this in action before. KZbin suggestions brought me here.
@italolinarez997811 жыл бұрын
Man This looks FUCKING AWESOME!
@andresrincon52803 жыл бұрын
This brings back memorys when we played this in starwars rouge squadron lll rebel strike
@goatmaster33873 жыл бұрын
This is quite an amazing 3d Experience for 1985 Atari
@videoghostreviews53262 жыл бұрын
this looks awesome im totally looking for it now thanks
@SpecialAgentBillMaxwell2 жыл бұрын
I never realized there was a sequel to the Star Wars original game. With vector graphics, I mean. I only saw the original vector Star Wars (which was a blast) and the Return of the Jedi game (no vector graphics, but still fun).
@Colin208415 жыл бұрын
The colour vector monitor (be it a WG6100 or Amplifone) is fairly straight forward to fix, now that the Lopts (HV Transformers) have been reproduced. It would not be straight forward to fit a B+W, you need to build some electronics to combine the colours for a start :-( I need to get my cockpit up and running this year ...
@1simo9352112 жыл бұрын
Had the star wars games on my Spectrum 128k good times.
@flowerpt11 жыл бұрын
I should talk to my local arcade museum about finding this - they have many rare units, and despite the ungodly number of quarters I pumped into Star Wars, I've never had the chance to play ESB!
@JasonNation7212 жыл бұрын
@ninelivecat Heck yeah, the Episode IV game was getting reasonable business because of me. I pumped so many quarters back in the day for that game! That does make sense though, don't fix what's not broken.
@ab9pdonteh12 жыл бұрын
@Bazookatone1 It wouldn't have to draw in any special order because there's no back-face culling or hidden line removal so it dumps directly to the screen. Any intersecting points will just be a color combination like blue and green lines will look cyan at the intersection. Raster graphics use a Z buffer so it knows how far a drawn pixel is from the camera. If a new pixel is closer to the camera then it knows to overwrite it otherwise it skips it.
@ninelivecat12 жыл бұрын
@JasonNation72 No it wasn't mainly because it was a conversion kit for Star Wars 1983 It actually came out 1 year after Return Of The Jedi Arcade in 1985 So a lot of operators probably couldn't be bothered converting over the original Star Wars arcade game which were still probably doing reasonable business
@JasonNation7212 жыл бұрын
Wow! I've never seen this chapter of Star Wars in the 80s arcade scene. It must've not been as popular as the '83 version.
@AldrinAlbano Жыл бұрын
The attack on the Death Star (and blowing away Darth Vader's tie fighter) was better but I loved this either way!! The gamers these days have no idea of the FUN of arcades back in the 1980s. It's not the graphics that counts guys, It's the game play!!
@mikeytee6821 Жыл бұрын
I hold the world record all time high score with this game.
@YouthfulElf11 жыл бұрын
I played this game one time where it was built into a moving seat to make you feel like you were really flying the speeder. I've never seen that again so it might have been a rare set-up.
@ninelivecat12 жыл бұрын
@JasonNation72 Yeah also the kit would have been expensive at the time and would have required a good technician to make the changeover a luxury that not all arcades could afford
@ninelivecat12 жыл бұрын
@genredleader It was a conversion kit for the original Star Wars arcade game and was released after Return Of The Jedi arcade game in 1985 It wasn't as common as Star Wars or Return Of The Jedi I only came across it once in arcade
@legocontrollerjr12 жыл бұрын
even at the age of 15, i want to open an arcade filled with old games like atari and tron, etc. sadly i don't have the money to entertain the modern day kids with the classics. man i love old retro games, heck one of my favs is space paranoids. god i love that game!
@TheReverb12 жыл бұрын
This is the best vector game ever
@shenmeowzo4 жыл бұрын
Awesome. Don't think I ever played this sequel.
@tylerdude19822 жыл бұрын
Holy shit, it’s Starfox
@shoresean1237 Жыл бұрын
Darth Vader and his Executor were searching for the Rebel Hideout, but instead found the Honeycomb Hideout. It was - Big - Yeah Yeah Yeah.
@theydidntnameme14 жыл бұрын
wow ballin!!!!! i wish i was alive to have played that back in the day
@lohphat2 жыл бұрын
I remember there was a "Force Bonus" if you could get through levels without firing a shot.
@leonel198214 жыл бұрын
Oh yesssssssss I played the Episode 4 version in a run down arcade in Willmar, MN every chance I could!
@gortium852 жыл бұрын
Awesome!!!
@OptimiSkeptic3 жыл бұрын
I'm getting nostalgic over 14 year old comments on a 36 year old video game. FML.
@agfagaevart14 жыл бұрын
VECTOR GRAPHICS!!!! Star Wars game emptied my pockets of cash many a time, during 1983.
@BradliusMaximus12 жыл бұрын
OMG I remember playing this when I was 4!!!! Damnit...nostalgia just made me need a change of pants...
@4fingas69 Жыл бұрын
Ahh yes. Gonna find this for RetroArch and ps3
@lesterroberts115 жыл бұрын
I would love to play this!!
@boiledrootbeer11 жыл бұрын
This game looks super smooth.
@PurpleKnightmare8 жыл бұрын
Wow I've never seen that in any arcade.
@Colin208415 жыл бұрын
Oh... Its unlikely that the tube would be dead... especially if its an amplifone (unless its been ultra reliable and had a long life, or its been physically damaged) - I bought a 19" amp last year, and have a 25" one on hold... Im in the UK and these are harder to souce here than in the USA. You can use a WG6100 as a drop in replacement (and these are a lot easier to get hold of as were used in many more games)... Usually the monitors electronics have died well before the tube....
@ninelivecat11 жыл бұрын
I came across it only once It was a conversion kit for Star Wars most arcade operators weren't interested in the upgrade because Star Wars was still quite popular so that's the reason you probably never came across it.
@dedeman114 жыл бұрын
Wow, why did I never see this game? It's not like I didn't spend enough time/money at the arcade.
@BeedeePizzle14 жыл бұрын
No, it's on a 25" amplifone monitor in a SW cockpit. You can see some of the vectors (especially on the text) don't line up correctly.
@TheNatedogg5614 жыл бұрын
This game would've been awesome on the Vectrex!!!
@52955014 жыл бұрын
Its look like a phantastic lasershow...
@josymon13 жыл бұрын
Asteroids do not concern me admiral! The best part is surviving that asteroid field.
@starsiegeplayer3 жыл бұрын
Never heard of this game before.
@SmileyCrossbones10 жыл бұрын
Amazing.
@Bazookatone112 жыл бұрын
Can someone please answer a qustion for me? AS I understand it, this game (and Battlezone, and presumably others) used vector graphics rather than raster graphics, which is why they look so good. Now I understand the principle behind vector gaphics (sort of), my question is, is there a difference in the physical display that vector graphics are shown on, compared to your garden variety CRT, such as in an old TV or computer monitor.
@kilroy9872 жыл бұрын
I'm not 100% sure, but I think the CRT surface tech is the same, but the way things are rendered differs. A normal CRT screen will refresh the entirely display, usually top to bottom, rendering every pixel. But a vector graphic machine will draw a fast line to render the whole screen from point to point. So the lines look very straight and not pixelated.
@1337Shockwav316 жыл бұрын
This looks really impressive for a Vector game. You happen to know how many different beams are inside the monitor? Thanks for posting.
@captainspire90942 жыл бұрын
All the quarters went here.
@derekl2882 Жыл бұрын
As I remember it, the new hope game that preceded this was better.
@heavenlysheephugshuggingfo15058 жыл бұрын
these will make a good game on the app store
@DarthRushy11 жыл бұрын
Actually, ESB was originally a "mod". There was some kind of a way to "add" the second game to the first one.
@Colin208415 жыл бұрын
There are 3 different Z level outputs from the PCB... for the Red Green and Blue... You need to combine these to give a single B+W Z intensity... Such as a mixer circuit....So you get your shades of gray... if you just hook up one of the colours, the other two will be blind... make sense ?
@concord32713 жыл бұрын
wwwwwwwhaaaaaaaaat> i did not know that this existed- i knew about the Star Wars game and played it every summer for years now I can't find it anywhere- but I didn't know they made an Empire game too! But I do play the Sega SW which is a decent remake of these games.
@ugirl212 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this on chrismass
@danpolk14 жыл бұрын
Appreciation of history is lost on the young.
@parapoliticos523 жыл бұрын
It blew the mind of 1983 kids. It's competitors was space invaders.
@parapoliticos523 жыл бұрын
@Christ is lord Space invaders came first to N.America in 1980. It will reach its peak popularity 2 years later.
@parapoliticos523 жыл бұрын
@Christ is lord It doenst matter. the point is it was the most popular and widely played game in 1983 when Star wars game came out.
@parapoliticos523 жыл бұрын
@Christ is lord WRong. There are the revenues of the company that demonstrate how popular or not it was.
@chosento29883 жыл бұрын
@Christ is Lord Thank you for shutting up the know it all millennial...Thank you!
@parapoliticos523 жыл бұрын
She is still wrong. You know that there data for the companies incomes per year, right?
@beelzeburbia13 жыл бұрын
"May the force be with you" has geabbed me,then pulled me :D
@KaitainCPS11 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that.
@Stun-693 жыл бұрын
Played this in the arcade. Best games ever. Why are these not on IOS yet?!
@MattMcIrvin8 жыл бұрын
I don't think I ever saw this one in real life! Clearly a reworking of the 1983 Star Wars arcade game (in which you fought the Death Star trench battle) with different graphics.
@Concreteowl Жыл бұрын
I wish Jedi got the vector treatment.
@RedneckRealist12 жыл бұрын
this is amazing!!!
@jefripayne10289515 жыл бұрын
Was it just me or was that astroid field pretty tough? I eventually mastered it.
@ste309w15 жыл бұрын
I WANT ONE!
@Kudosmeister14 жыл бұрын
The poor man's Star Wars Trilogy...
@SparkyMK311 жыл бұрын
I've played the port of this game on Star Wars Rebel Strike, and its nowhere near as smooth or crisp looking as it is here! My my!
@nrdesign199114 жыл бұрын
I think he just synced his camera with the display