Williams 1983 video game promo video

[@miked4377]

what a phenomenal list of great games!!! i played some at my arcade. ..but i dont know why we didnt get deveztator or space rider or turkey shoot.....sinistar was awesome .robotron blaster stargate great games .im so glad i was a kid in 1982!!!!

[@screwthenet]

So amazing to see 3 dimensional games back in the early mid 1980s that looked so good and cool. I never got to play some of those show, but wow would I have liked to have if I could go back ^

[@popbumper]

Thanks for sharing Duncan. I love the videos you post - very important record of industry history. There are some gems showcased here in my opinion.

[@_rmaze_quiambao5215]

underrated year in gaming.

[@Diskoboy1974]

So THAT'S where Grand Lizard came from. Apparently his pinball game was a bit more popular than Inferno. And from what I've heard, Devastator was supposed to be a sequel to Defender and Stargate. As cool as it looks from the footage shown, it still kinda looks incomplete. I wonder if they were gonna add a laserdisc background before Williams just decided not to produce it.

[@martinhernandez656]

12:04 Williams devastator will be played on MAME FINAL BURNS NEO WAS SET OF NEW VERSION

[@Krellan]

Wow, this is a great snapshot in time. Sinistar is the only hit game here, the rest were flops, unfortunately for Williams. Played Mystic Marathon, Inferno, Bubbles, and Blaster at California Extreme. Never played Turkey Shoot, Splat, Speed Ball, Devastator, or Star Rider. Played Sinistar everywhere else I could find it! Interesting to see the pinball cameos as well. Inferno is built around the Grand Lizard, and Red Hot (from Banzai Run) is one of your motorcycle opponents here in Star Rider as well.

[@jammotron]

DEVASTATOR & STAR RIDER is a must have games. Devastator is like Blaster but more 3D effect and more faster and harder waves. Star Rider is a 3D fantasy space racing game with all kinds of twist and turns like no other. Both games are hard to find and should be Emulated on the Mame Arcade. CLASSICS!

[@Legend813a]

Williams got major mileage out of their sound chip, scame sound effects from pinball tables to video games

[@mcatuara1]

Williams kind of reminded me of FILMATION; the cartoon company using the same type of music and sound effects as Williams in their games.

[@vw2rover]

That last one looked like Star Fox!

[@mcatuara1]

Turkey Shoot, Inferno, Mystic Marathon, Splat and Devastator probably bombed due to the bad ratings.

[@ZiggyCashmere]

Devastator wasnt released I think.

[@Diskoboy1974]

@@ZiggyCashmere Only 2 were produced. 1 dedicated cabinet, which was the one used in this video, and one as just a lone PCB. Don't thing the game even made it to the play testing phase.

[@charlesn898]

@@Diskoboy1974 Eugene Jarvis said in a documentary video that one of the Blaster sitdown cabinets (1 of 3 produced) was converted into the Devastator prototype. NOTE: The second Blaster cockpit unit Mr. Jarvis said was at his father's house in California and the fate of the third cabinet was unknown at the time of the video.

[@Diskoboy1974]

@@charlesn898 I have a weird obsession with this game as I do with most other early 80's prototypes. But this one I seem to keep coming back to. I heard it was supposed to be a sequel or spiritual successor to Defender/Stargate. I also heard the Steve Ritchie was the designer or part of the team. He's actually on my Facebook friends list, so I really should ask him what he knows about Devastator since he definitely has some inside info on it.

[@Waremonger]

Wow, who gave this guy a job doing the voice-over - he sounds more wooden than a redwood tree. Also, he keeps mispronouncing "hovering".

[@charlesn898]

It sounds like Larry DeMar was doing the voice over here.

[@alphatechr]

I have all these in emulation, I have to admit they are lame....