Getting to play this on the deluxe sit down cabinet from
@atari was 🤯.
Having actual crowds of people watching and cheering as you blew up the Death Star made you feel like Luke Skywalker.
It wasn’t the graphics.
It was the experience.
It’s 1983 and you're playing Star Wars at the arcades for the first time, after watching the movies. Words cannot describe it.
For perspective: other popular games around that time were Pac-Man, Dig Dug, Qbert, Joust, and BurgerTime... all great in their own way. But Star Wars literally catapulted you into a whole new universe.
The graphics were nuts, and so were the digitized voices and sound effects straight from the movie (“Use the Force, Luke!”). To top it all off, John Williams’s iconic score delivered maximum nerd chills.
This game will forever be linked to one of the best arcade eras ever.