Re: Star Wars Arcade port for the Apple II?

["Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@gmail.com>]

I would greatly appreciate an image of the disk, and could even throw
you a few paypal bucks for your troubles.

You can reach me at cpalaimoNOSPAM@ucdavis.edu (remove the nospam).

Thank you,

Chris

Luke wrote:
> I still have that game - I played it again some months ago. As a Star
> Wars fan, I played with it pretty much when I was a boy, but I eventually
> got bored of it because it was repetitive.
>
>     You need a joystick mind you, with the keyboard it's pretty impossible.
> The first part of the game you are in your X-wing approaching the Death star
> and have to shoot some Tie-fighters. The next phase is flying near the
> surface of the Death star where you have to avoid being shot by the laser
> turrets while of course you can counter attack. Last phase is in the Death
> Star "trench" leading towards the exhaust port of the reactor. You have to
> avoid being shot and when you reach the port you have to aim to shoot your
> ion/plasma (don't recall) charge into the port. If successful, the Death
> star blows up and the game starts all over again, with a higher difficulty
> level.
>
>    I believe there are some PCM samples of Obi One saying "Luke, use the
> Force" and some exclamations such as "Yahoo" when you destroy some
> tie-fighters - but I may be getting mixed up with the real arcade game which
> I also used to play (which was pretty much the same, using vectorial 3D
> rendering with higher definition and cool effects).
>
>    If you wish, I can track the disk and make an image of it - I have to set
> my Apple IIe up again with ADT as I don't have much space and only
> temporarily place it beside my PC when I get that "urge" to mess with it
> again. Let me know if you want it and I will have a good excuse to put my
> hands on my Apple IIe again (it's always a pleasure)!
>
>    Luke
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> "Chris Alaimo" <cpalaimo@gmail.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> 1158042296.824811.56140@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com">news:1158042296.824811.56140@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
> > According to a Wikipedia article (eye roll), Broderbund released a post
> > of the original Star Wars Arcade game for the Apple II in 1988.  I can
> > find no other reference to this anywhere else on the internet.  So is
> > the article full of it, or does anyone else remember this, or better
> > yet have a disk image?
> >
> > Chris
> >