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I played the arcade version of Atari Star Wars far too much in '83 & '84 and for some reason I never thought it was the equatorial trench.
by arethuza 3y ago
I played the arcade version of Atari Star Wars far too much in '83 & '84 and for some reason I never thought it was the equatorial trench.
- nonrandomstring 3y agoIt's possible I have a false memory based on my _belief_ that it's the equator trench and that there's a cut scene or transition in both the DOS version of tar Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: Attack on the Death Star (1991) which are the ones I played most. Anyone remember for sure?
- deaddodo 3y agoYouTube has things called "let's plays"/"longplays". For DOS Star Wings: X-Wing, I scrubbed multiple videos and didn't see anything about the trenchrun: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL480EC9A01E8C50F7 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL480EC9A01E8C50F7 There is no Attack on the Death Star PC videos that I could find. I did find Rebel Assault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FX3B8yC38U https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FX3B8yC38U Which almost explicitly avoids the entire conversation by starting at the trench entry. I found an x68000 version of "Attack on the Death Star" (maybe the same, maybe different) and it does the same as the previous, only showing the surface turret battle and then directly into the trench: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzqbVRUxAE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUzqbVRUxAE It would appear that most games of the era were either unsure, or aware that it wasn't the hangar bay trench.
- thom 3y agoYou fly _towards_ that in the same way they do in the film (and away from it when you die), but it cuts to you in a trench so there's plausible deniability here.