Williams Electronics Inc - Star Rider

Williams Electronics Inc Star Rider, laser disc arcade game 1984.

the laser disc generated background makes Star Rider a visually stunning game, i played the cockpit game in Rhyl North Wales in 1984/5.

there may be a pc port in the future :)

see also : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqPMR7mG_Zk

music: Status Quo - Down Down 1975.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Star
• Rider
• StarRider
• Williams
• Electronics
• Inc
• laser
• disc
• laserdisc
• arcade
• game
• 1984
• Status
• Quo
• StatusQuo
• down
• 1975
• sinistar
• defender

[ReverendSyn]

Could you re-upload it n a better resolution?

[jjHoss]

@ReverendSyn search for: Star Rider (1983). by VintageCG

[huffdiggler]

i spent loads on this when i was a kid, there was nothing like it about anywhere, i was like riding a cartoon space game, for real.

[jjHoss]

it was the best game of the time,only dragon's lair compared and this was more playable

[weegerri1sm]

I dunno if I'm right, but I remember this being very much faster when I played it at an arcade in Glasgow as a kid.

[jjHoss]

you're right, it was, this is the attract mode

[southport97]

This is like a prehistoric Wipeout for PX1

[matt29171]

what is the gameplay?

[mgabrysSF]

With OpenGL this would be a cinch to recreate disc-less.

[ApacheMan2K]

I wonder if Kenneth Graham had a hand in this one. I met him at last year's Houston Arcade Expo, where he explained how things were with programming arcade games including Mystic Marathon, how paranoid the management was about giving credit to individual programmers, and about pinball games.

[Quartrez]

I wish MAME could emulate that.

[Setebos]

Yeah, whenever I spotted that Sinistar "lion" I always had a bit of a panic attack.

[ehcmier]

Yep! "Run coward!" It happens in the first or second race.

[baarbear]

Interesting thing about this game. I seem to recall that on certain levels you could see the Sinistar "lion" floating by in the background if you paid attention.