In Star Castle you are supposed to leave at least one piece of each layered shield. If you destroy all the pieces in a layer, it will grow back. The safest way to kill that ship is to do a flyby when there are almost no shields left. Remember it well from the 1980s :), but I did not play it that much, as it was pretty hard and you would need extra funds (that I didn't have) to learn :]. Plenty of other games to play at that time, including pinballs. Btw, that's another game that was creating major screen burn right in the center of the screen.

@jacklick

7 ай бұрын

Ahh. Thanks for the clue! Yea, Star Castle is constantly drawing in the middle vs other symptom, loss of deflection, where you see other center screen phosphor "burn".

@Omega_Mark

7 ай бұрын

@@jacklick It's a great game and cool to have. I would definitely play it, if I had it. You cannot reproduce the same vector CRT effect with MAME. The ship will not shoot at you when there is a shield between both of you (of course). Ideally, you want to leave the innermost shield intact and time it to send a salvo that would create a hole and destroy the ship without regrowing that shield. I thought about it and I think I didn't play it much back then, as it was using buttons (not a spinner) for directions (just like Asteroids). At that time I was heavily playing Omega Race and going for high scores, so switching to buttons was a drag lol. Maybe I was hoping they will release these games with spinners later?

@jacklick

7 ай бұрын

Yea a spinner w/ two buttons would be nice LOL

@Omega_Mark

7 ай бұрын

@@jacklick Have you considered a custom control panel for this? Nice little video project :).

@jacklick

7 ай бұрын

There is/was a multi-vector CP made but I don't have one. Maybe one day.

This thing is super cool. The only bummer is that it doesn't play Space duel LOL is this available to purchase?

@jacklick

7 ай бұрын

I dont believe they are available any longer but occasionally are listed for sale by members forums.arcade-museum.com