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Leigh Dodds

I keep an eye on the feed of new magazines being uploaded to the internet archive.

Yesterday someone uploaded an August 1983 copy of Play Meter magazine, "for the coin-op entertainment industry".

It's got an advert in there for the greatest arcade game of all time: Star Wars. Which was released that year.

archive.org/details/play-meter

An advert for the 1983 Star Wars video game. Text reads: "NOW- AT LAST-THE BLOCKBUSTER GAME WE HAVE ALL BEEN WAITING FOR! ATARI STAR WARS coin video game introduces a new space age of entertainment. Graphic simulation that plunges players head-on into the world aa of LUKE SKY WALKER. Music and dialogue from the film. Special effects that blast state-of-the-art into an unknown dimension! And the movie release of STAR WARS: RETURN OF THE JEDI renews the whole STAR WARS experience. Cash in on the connection! But the thrill of game play goes beyond its great A name. We've done our homework. STAR WARS, the game, will explode on the coin video scene just like the film has ex-ploded into every aspect of our lives! - Trust your feeling—call your Atarl Distributor. Or contact us for referral"
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Brian Grinter

@ldodds never saw the stand up machine
Played the sit down one many times
Star Trek one was cool and ported to home computers pretty accurately

Star Trek arcade booth
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