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7 posts tagged classic arcade ads
Classic Ads: Slither
Slither is a optical trackball controlled shooter game manufactured by GDI in 1982. Players manipulate a blaster weapon around a desert background with dense vegetation. Fending off attacks by giant snakes, pterodactyls and mutant gorillas. [Arcade-Museum]
Classic Ads: Star Wars
Star Wars is an arcade game produced by Atari Inc. and released in 1983. The game is a first person space simulator, simulating the attack on the Death Star from the final act of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The game is composed of 3D color vector graphics. [Wiki]
Classic Ads: Centipede
Centipede is a vertically-oriented shoot ‘em up arcade game produced by Atari in 1981. The game was designed by Ed Logg along with Dona Bailey, one of the few female game programmers in the industry at this time. The player moves the character about the bottom area of the screen with a trackball and fires laser shots at a centipede advancing from the top of the screen down through a field of mushrooms. [Wiki]
Classic Ads: Battlezone
Battlezone is an arcade game designed by Ed Rotberg released by Atari in November 1980. It displays a wire-frame view (using vector graphics) on a horizontal black and white (with green and red sectioned color overlay) vector monitor. Due to its novel gameplay and look, this game was very popular for many years. [Wiki]
Classic Ads: Rampage
Rampage is a 1986 arcade game by Bally Midway. Up to three simultaneous players control monsters George (a King Kong-like gorilla), Lizzie (a Godzilla-like dinosaur/lizard), or Ralph (a giant arctic wolf), created from mutated humans who are trying to survive against onslaughts of military forces. Each round is completed when a particular city is completely reduced to rubble. [Wiki]
Classic Ads: Arabian
Arabian (アラビアン) is a platform arcade game produced in 1983 by Sun Electronics and published by Atari Inc. The player assumes the role of an adventurous Arabian prince whose goal is to rescue the princess from her palace. During his quest, the prince will sail seas, crawl through caves, and fly magic carpets.
Arabian was converted for home computers as Tales of the Arabian Nights by Interceptor Software in 1984/5 for the Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. A Famicom version was developed and released by Sunsoft only in Japan as Super Arabian. [Wiki]