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Star Castle
Bootlegs: Stellar Castle
published by Cinematronics in 1980

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platform: Arcade
game type: shooter
genre: Science Fiction
display: Raster
emulator: Mame
Star Castle is one of the old vector graphics games. The "Star Castle" looked like a gun surrounded by three rotating rings. Your goal was to shoot through the rings and destroy the gun. Every time you shot one of the rings a chunk of it would break off. By drilling through all three rings you could eventually get a shot through to the gun, ending the level.

What made the game difficult was that as you were shooting at the rings, the gun was shooting at you with little homing bullets and a large main gun. Also, if you completely destroyed a ring it would come back at full strength.

Star Castle used really simplistic black and white vectors for its graphics, but this was offset somewhat by a blue, red, and yellow overlay on the screen. Overall a pretty fun game.

With the release of Star Castle, videogames became art. This is because the star field background is a depiction of a nude female, the oldest and oftenest subject of art. Management nearly recalled the game when they found out.

First depiction of a female in a videogame.

2004-01-09 00:37:12

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Authors:
Scott Boden (program),
Tim Skelly (design/cabinet art design),
Rick Bryant (cabinet art)


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