Star Wars

Star Wars - Retro Head

Star Wars is an arcade game produced by Atari and released in 1983. The game is a first person space simulator, based around Star Wars - Episode IV: A New Hope. More specifically the game's action covers the final act of the movie: the attack on the Death Star. The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics.

The game is considered the #4 most popular game of all time according to Killer List of Video Games.

The game featured several digitized samples of voices from the movie, including Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker, Alec Guinness as Obi-Wan Kenobi, James Earl Jones as Darth Vader, Harrison Ford as Han Solo, the mechanized beeps of R2-D2, and the growls of Chewbacca.

The game is available as a standard upright or a sit-down cockpit version, both of which are elaborately decorated. The controls consist of a yoke control (similar to a steering wheel — twisting left and right gives combined roll and yaw; twisting forwards and backwards with the side control gives pitch) with four buttons — two trigger style and two in position to be pressed by the thumbs — each of which fired a laser positioned on the four leading edges of the X-Wings.

"I can remember queing to have ago at this in an arcade.
It was incredibly immersive for a game from this era.
The controls felt realistic and the coloured Vector
graphics were some of the best around. The game still
holds it's own today."

Highest Score set by Robert Mruczek (USA)
300,007,894.


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