Did you play Tempest and Star Trek, too? Or is this less about how it was vector, and more about how it was a quasi-flight simulator?I was straight up awesome at the 1993 Star Wars Arcade game.
--Patrick
Did you play Tempest and Star Trek, too? Or is this less about how it was vector, and more about how it was a quasi-flight simulator?I was straight up awesome at the 1993 Star Wars Arcade game.
You're thinking of the 1984 Star Wars Arcade game, which I was terrible at because I was 5. It was one of my Dad's favorites though.Did you play Tempest and Star Trek, too? Or is this less about how it was vector, and more about how it was a quasi-flight simulator?
--Patrick
Not merely that, motion graphics that incorporate empty space actually do "look more futuristic" to your brain because it is your brain's natural inclination to fill in gaps with its own extrapolated content, and nothing looks as awesome as what your brain imagines while it's working in overdrive.Vector 3D graphics still look way more futuristic than polygon graphics. It's probably just because it was so impressed on me in the 80s, though.
I thought that was just the interlaced v. progressive content.It's the same reason why the PS2 and earlier consoles looked great on tube TVs but like ass on LCDs even though it's the exact same picture delivered at the same resolution.
That also has some to do with it, in motion, but even in still frames there is a noticeable difference.I thought that was just the interlaced v. progressive content.
--Patrick
MAN I loved that game! I got so good at that, I'd beat it on a single credit (like the video, but also beating Vader). Arcade that I went to once had a day where all the fighting games had a tournament going, but the owners also made a tourney for that game. You got 1 run and about 4 credits worth of tokens to use in order to get the highest score you could. I was up first and posted the #3 score on the machine for my run (#2 was also me, never could surpass the person at #1 though). At the end, one of the other people waiting to play it went "Oh, you're THAT MDB!" and promptly walked away. I won $50 in tokens.
I'd like to think there was one fat disheveled slob who took one sip and said "this is tang."[DOUBLEPOST=1422642757,1422642660][/DOUBLEPOST]I'd like to see those people who didn't fall for it, because you know not everyone was this dumb.
I hear ya man. There was one of those machines in the corner of the basement cafe at my university, every day at lunch I'd pop in 50 cents (cause this was after the standard credit moved up from 25) and beat the whole thing start to finish in about half an hour.MAN I loved that game! I got so good at that, I'd beat it on a single credit (like the video, but also beating Vader). Arcade that I went to once had a day where all the fighting games had a tournament going, but the owners also made a tourney for that game. You got 1 run and about 4 credits worth of tokens to use in order to get the highest score you could. I was up first and posted the #3 score on the machine for my run (#2 was also me, never could surpass the person at #1 though). At the end, one of the other people waiting to play it went "Oh, you're THAT MDB!" and promptly walked away. I won $50 in tokens.
And how many of them gave what they thought was a good sound bite, in hopes of being on a commercial? Some people will say anything if they think they're going to be on TV.I'd like to see those people who didn't fall for it, because you know not everyone was this dumb.
I never watched MASK (and those are clearly helmets) but this was my jam.Help me I'm 6 again
MASK was, unfortunately, very short lived, along with other such experimental shows as Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Spiral Zone, Pole Position, and Kidd Video.I never watched MASK (and those are clearly helmets) but this was my jam.
Well, you're in for a treat then, the same guy who did the MASK cover did Pole Position as well.I never got into M.A.S.K or The Centurions, but I LOVED Wheeled Warriors, Pole Position and Kidd Video, and their 80's power-ballad theme songs. "Pole Positioooonnnnn...!"
Even kid-me was done with that show, when I saw the episode where the guy was dancing at a party and didn't realize he was transforming into the car and KEPT DANCING, the car's front bumper in the air, wobbling to-and-fro on its rear bumper as people screamed and ran for cover. I mean come on, how was I supposed to maintain suspension of disbelief THERE?What about Turbo Teen?
I'm pretty sure it was the coccyx.And what part becomes the gear shift?
Your... parents... banned saturday morning cartoons?!Whoa, I totally forgot Kidd Video, but I instantly heard the theme.
My parents disallowed Saturday morning cartoons. My entire education in the cartoons of the 80s came from the rare sleepover.