Time to do the trench run..

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I just bought this and assembled it..now to destroy the Death Star ( a few hundred times)
https://ibb.co/Yfxjq09

 

[Smellmet]

Is that the game with the wire frame graphics?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Is that the game with the wire frame graphics?

Yup!! I love it

 

[Smellmet]

Yup!! I love it

I used to play that loads when I was a child. I remember having to shoot what looked like snowflakes coming at you.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I used to play that loads when I was a child. I remember having to shoot what looked like snowflakes coming at you.

yup.. that's what the TIES shoot back at you (for some reason)

 

[BillJ]

I had the home version for the Atari 5200. It was a fun game.

 

[Kor]

I used to play this on PC a lot, I think at school. Good times.
A local arcade had it in a sit-down arcade cabinet (as discussed here), but it was perpetually out of order.

For the uninitiated, this is what it's all about:

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Kor

 

[fireproof78]

Stay on target...

While I did not play this particular game, I did love "X-Wing" and "X-Wing II: Rebel Alliance" a whole lot. Also, random video game fact, this game reminded me of TIE fighters and the hero ship on the box looked like an X-Wing:

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[Campe]

Love that game. My biggest Star Wars white whale merch is the original cockpit version of this game. Only $7500 on eBay!

My wife would LITERALLY kill me.

 

[Shawnster]

Ah Space Spartans! Those were the days. A buddy of mine had an Intellivision with tons of games. Good times!

 

[John Clark]

Enjoyed playing this at the arcade a lot. Ended up getting Starstrike 3d (which was fairly similar) on the spectrum when it came out.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Our local Game World had the sit down version when it was new (1983 and beyond). I pumped lots of tokens into that one.

 

[fireproof78]

Ah Space Spartans! Those were the days. A buddy of mine had an Intellivision with tons of games. Good times!

Intellivision is releasing a new system in October...

 

[JD]

I just bought this and assembled it..now to destroy the Death Star ( a few hundred times)
https://ibb.co/Yfxjq09

Is that the actual original cabinet, or one of those new mini-ones you can get at Wal-Mart?

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

Is that the actual original cabinet, or one of those new mini-ones you can get at Wal-Mart?

It's the one at Walmart, but although a little shorter and has almost a full size controller and screen. And it comes with a rise or so you can stand up and play it.

 

[JD]

I have to admit, I've found a couple of those tempting myself, especially the Ninja Turtles one.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

What a difference a couple years makes. I remember the SW arcade game well, but can't remember the ESB one at all.

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[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

What a difference a couple years makes. I remember the SW arcade game well, but can't remember the ESB one at all.

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I had never played or even SEEN Empire before getting this

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I had never played or even SEEN Empire before getting this

I graduated in 1985 and straight to the Navy, so I went from teenager who had time to go to the arcade to "not so much". The game probably came and went fast as they were making much nicer looking stuff by that point.

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

I graduated in 1985 and straight to the Navy, so I went from teenager who had time to go to the arcade to "not so much". The game probably came and went fast as they were making much nicer looking stuff by that point.

It's actual a pretty cool game.. they let you do some target practice, and you can fight more than just TIES