Re: Star Wars Arcade port for the Apple II?

["Luke" <luke@nospam.digidude.homeip.net>]

    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 
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> 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
>