[A8] Star Raiders II
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2015 3:38 am
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Moonsweeper wrote: Released for the first time today — a holiday present from Aric Wilmunder: the unreleased, almost-finished sequel to Star Raiders for the Atari 8-bits. He created and developed it while working in the R&D lab of Atari coin-op.
(This is not the Last Straighter rebranded game. Aric told me, “When The Last Starfighter didn’t do well in the theaters and marketing re-branded the Atari 800 Last Starfighter game as Star Raiders II, they didn’t take into account that there was already an actual sequel to Star Raiders that was just a few months away from completion. I was the designer and solo engineer who worked for about a year on the project as a member of an R&D team inside Atari Coin-Op.")
My interview with Aric is published on the ANTIC podcast today. Our discussion of Star Raiders II starts at about the 30 minute mark. http://ataripodcast.libsyn.com/antic-in ... -of-apshai
Here's video of it in action, and the ATR file and documentation is attached.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb03mSdMaYc
The files are attached, and also at https://archive.org/details/StarRaidersII_Wilmunder