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Warrior (arcade game)

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The cabinets and hardware were produced on a low budget and proved to be very unreliable when compared to contemporary machines. As a result, very few remain in working order, with only one known restored machine in the
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could not render the characters and gaming environment at the same time, so backgrounds were printed and the characters projected on top of them.
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company name shortly before Cinematronics closed Vectorbeam, which they had purchased in 1978. The game featured two
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to switch between character and weapon modes. The sticks were produced in house and installed in
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Originally Skelly planned for a two-player system with each player using two
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in a way that players found unresponsive and difficult to use.
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techniques. Due to the limitations of the hardware, the
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Index

The Warriors (video game)

Developer(s)
Tim Skelly
Publisher(s)
Vectorbeam
Designer(s)
Tim Skelly
Platform(s)
Arcade
NA
Genre(s)
Fighting
2 player
1979
arcade
fighting game
fighting games
Heavyweight Champ
1976
Boxing
Atari 2600
Tim Skelly
Cinematronics
Vectorbeam
dueling
monochrome
vector graphics
motion capture
processor

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