and white (initially). Cinematronics also published Dragon's Lair in 1983, the first major LaserDisc video game. Cinematronics Inc. was founded on April...
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Full Tilt! Pinball (category Cinematronics, LLC games)
known as Pinball 95 in Europe, is a pinball video game developed by Cinematronics and published by Maxis in 1995. It features pre-rendered 3D graphics...
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Cinematronics, LLC, later known as Maxis South, was a Texas-based developer of games for the PC and Mac, founded in 1994 by David Stafford, Mike Sandige...
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series, Dragon's Lair, was originally released for arcades in 1983 by Cinematronics. It leveraged LaserDisc technology, offering greatly superior graphics...
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April 2005). "Ugress: Cinematronics". Gaffa (in Danish). Retrieved 30 April 2024. "Norwegiancharts.com – Ugress – Cinematronics". Hung Medien. Retrieved...
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Space Wars (category Cinematronics games)
Space Wars is a shooter game released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1977. It is based on the PDP-1 game Spacewar! (1962) but instead uses vector graphics...
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Star Castle (category Cinematronics games)
is a vector graphics multidirectional shooter released in arcades by Cinematronics in 1980. The game involves obliterating a series of defenses orbiting...
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Dragon's Lair (1983 video game) (category Cinematronics games)
video game developed by Advanced Microcomputer Systems and published by Cinematronics in 1983, as the first game in the Dragon's Lair series. In the game...
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Tim Skelly while working at Cinematronics, it was released under the Vectorbeam company name shortly before Cinematronics closed Vectorbeam, which they...
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in North America in October and to Zaccaria in Italy the same year. Cinematronics converted the game to cocktail arcade cabinets in North America. Vanguard...
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OF CINEMATRONICS AND A DESCRIPTION OF THEIR VECTOR GAMES". Tail Gunner came out in a sit-down version, Tail Gunner II. "THE HISTORY OF CINEMATRONICS AND...
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second place on the official Norwegian chart board. A second album, Cinematronics, was released two years later. It reached the third place on the same...
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arcade video game company formed on June 5, 1987 from the assets of Cinematronics. It was a subsidiary of arcade and home game producer Tradewest, which...
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as various arcade games like Asteroids, Space Wars, Tempest and many cinematronics titles such as Rip Off, and Tail Gunner using vector monitors. Storage...
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series of 16-bit minicomputers Vectorbeam – Arcade game platform used by Cinematronics for various arcade games including Space Wars, Starhawk, Warrior, Star...
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the PlayStation 3 Starhawk (1979 video game), a vector arcade game by Cinematronics Star Hawks, a comic strip Starhawk (comics), an antihero in the Earth-691...
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Rip Off (video game) (category Cinematronics games)
graphics written by Tim Skelly and released as an arcade video game by Cinematronics in 1980. It was the first shooter with cooperative gameplay and an early...
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Armor Attack (category Cinematronics games)
shooter designed by Tim Skelly and released as an arcade video game by Cinematronics in 1980. It was licensed to Sega for release in Japan and also to Rock-Ola...
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Space Ace (category Cinematronics games)
Space Ace is a LaserDisc video game produced by Bluth Group, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems). It was...
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in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning in 1983 with Sega's Astron Belt. Cinematronics and American Laser Games produced elaborate arcade games that used the...
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Diego, California. It was the successor to the Leland Corporation and Cinematronics. In 1994, Midway Games parent WMS Industries bought the Texas-based...
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Starhawk (1979 video game) (category Cinematronics games)
arcade game designed and programmed by Tim Skelly and manufactured by Cinematronics. Starhawk is a shoot 'em up unofficially based on the Star Wars: Episode...
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our lives and changed the world. Prima. p. 225. ISBN 0-7615-3643-4. Cinematronics sold more than 16,000 Dragon's Lair machines in 1983, for an average...
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tracking company Starcom, a collaborative trade name of video game makers Cinematronics, Advanced Microcomputer Systems and Bluth Group All pages with titles...
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2020-08-12 "Ugress | Album Discography". AllMusic. Retrieved 2020-08-12. Cinematronics – Ugress | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic, retrieved 2020-08-12...
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[SIC]". An arcade video game, Jack the Giantkiller, was released by Cinematronics in 1982 and is based on the story. Players control Jack, and must retrieve...
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War of the Worlds (video game), a 1982 video game by Tim Skelly of Cinematronics The War of the Worlds (1984 video game), a computer game by CRL Jeff...
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Bluth Group, the studio's next project was to produce the animation for Cinematronics' arcade video games Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, which were released...
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either a fixed or scrolling field. Games like Space Wars (1977) by Cinematronics and Tempest (1981) by Atari used vector graphics displays rather than...
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embedded systems. Early video game systems such as the Atari 2600 and Cinematronics vector graphics had hard real-time requirements because of the nature...
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