Summary: In this two-part series we delve deep into Star Wars (or Star Wars:A New Hope for those who didn’t see the movie in the summer of 1977). We examine the movie’s affect on us as 70’s kids and how Atari’s 1983 coin-operated “Star Wars: The Arcade Game” finally gave us the chance to be Luke Skywalker. See the photos from Sept. 26th, 1977 here: http://www.8bitrocket.com/2019/09/22/s22es2e11-star-wars-and-atari-in-the-vertical-blank-part-1/ References: -Coin Connection, May 1983 -Jed Margolin, Ed Rotberg “First Person Space War Memo” Dec 21, 1979 http://www.atarigames.com/safestuff/fpswidea.pdf -Dane Flansburgh former Project Archivist at The Strong https://www.museumofplay.org/blog/play-stuff/2015/07/star-wars-and-atari-documentation-of-a-classic-arcade-game -Jed Margolin, Atari VAX Email March 7, 1983 Mike Halley Interview http://www.atarigames.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:july-1983-mike-hally-interview&catid=14:news-articles&Itemid=5 https://www.jmargolin.com/vmail/Stat82.txt -Jed Margolin “Unit Vector Math For 3D Graphics” https://www.jmargolin.com/uvmath/uvmenu.htm Mike Halley Interview http://www.atarigames.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=218:july-1983-mike-hally-interview&catid=14:news-articles&Itemid=5 Lucasfilm memo to Atari Star Wars development team http://www.atarigames.com/safestuff/lucasstarwars.pdf
