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CinematronicsCinematronics was a pioneering arcade game company that had its heyday in the era of vector display games. While other companies released games based on raster displays, Cinematronics and Atari released vector-display games, which offered a distinctive look and a greater graphic capability (at the time), at the cost of being only black and white. Cinematronics experimented with color overlays on some of their games. In Star Castle, the overlay gave color to several elements of the game with fixed positions. In Armor Attack, the overlay was itself a part of the game: the overlay was a top-down view of a small set of city streets, and the player drove a jeep through the streets battling with tanks and helicopters. Cinematronics created Cosmic Chasm, a color vector game. Other games were developed based on the same hardware system (based on Motorola's 68000 chip) but were never released, including a three-d color vector game. Cinematronics also relased Dragon's Lair, the first ever laserdisc-based arcade game. Games Released - Space Wars 1978
- Warrior 1978
- Barrier 1979
- Ripoff 1979 A cocktail version was also manufactured under license by Centuri.
- Sundance 1979
- Tailgunner 1979
- Armor Attack 1980
- Star Castle 1980
- Tailgunner II 1980 This was a cockpit version which was otherwise the same as the original Tailgunner. It was made under license by Exidy.
- Boxing Bugs 1981
- Solar Quest 1981
- Star Hawk 1981
- War of the Worlds 1981
- Naughty Boy
- Jack the Giant Killer
- Zzyzzyxx 1983?
- Cosmic Chasm 1983?
- Dragon's Lair 1983
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