Atari Dedicated Cockpit Cabinet Vector Art

Atari s arcade division employed several artists who would create everything from industrial cabinet designs to the final artwork to adorn the various arcade cabinet designs.

Atari dedicated cockpit cabinet vector art. Classic art draws the player so he will spend his quarters this is the rare cockpit or environmental version of this game great side artwork note the plexi window so others could watch you play. Atari marble madness reproduction control panel for upright arcade game. Back of the cabinet controls were made up of one flight stick with a. Nothing particularly unusual there as most releases around that time looked to house themselves in a similar portfolio of cabinet designs.

In the 70 s atari clearly had a vision of what the arcades of the future would look like. Atari makes the list with their installment of major havoc created for their vector based arcade machine in 1983. Atari road blasters arcade video game control panel with controller 3. 10 tempest atari best tempest is one of the all time classic arcade shooters thanks to it s sharp geometric inspired graphics.

The game depicts a first person s view from a world war i biplane cockpit. A very good game with great sound and classic gameplay. Add to all of that the unique yoke controls that just ooze the battle of endor. Moving the joystick in its.

If you have fond memories of the atari star wars arcade games arcade1up s star wars arcade cabinet lets you. Close examination of the original promotional flyer for atari s 1981 centipede arcade cabinet shows three styles of cab. Atari was one of the main contenders back in the 80 s producing some of the most popular titles and most innovative gameplay in the arcades. Flares and bright pastel colours were the order of the day.

There is a reason and someone must have had an office buddy that drew kind of good to design the art for the cabinet. One year after the cabinet s release the game was released as a conversion kit. The player s goal is to destroy as many biplanes blimps tanks pillboxes pyramids and buildings as possible players can maneuver their airplanes with the joystick control. That purple tho.

Arcade cabinet game art is what attracted players over to a game and atari nailed it. But further inspection of the cocktail cabinet. But for me it wasn t and isn t just the game play that makes it so desirable but also the awesome cockpit cabinet design with it s complex angular shapes draped in the most gorgeous side art depicting the evil darth vader and the powerful death star not to mention the battle between the x wing and tie fighters. Super missile attack original board not tested.

Taking the angular theme and designing a wedge like cabinet is just the icing on the cake. From the original manual atari s red baron tm game is a one player game with an x y or vector generator monitor. Pole position cockpit video arcade game control panel atari 1982. From left to right a cabaret upright and cocktail.