Although Google had some exceptionally disappointing talks at Game Developers Conference 2012, their party really was something else; they had filled the center of the dancefloor with classic arcade cabinets and pinball tables, and I was able to try many of the classic arcade games for the first time in all of their pure unemulated awesomeness, accompanied by some appropriately hard house from the DJ. This party, pandering as it was, was a unique experience, one I wouldn't have been without. And seeing the original Asteroids on a real vector screen was a revelation. It was so vivid, the ship and the shots glowing with great intensity, looking like nothing a modern screen could reproduce. And, as is usually the case with old games using CRTs, it controlled perfectly without the horrible lag, we have grown accustomed to on our modern displays.
Asteroids
log entries
- 1544Got the score 12000. Got a score > 12000 (that I can't remember exactly) on an original Asteroids cabinet at the Google GDC Party 2012. Noone beat it that evening :)
- 6356Got the score 13770. Sunday was our last day in San Fransisco, we didn't have anything planned, and I could think of nothing better than to go back to Musée Mécanique and play some more arcade games. Asteroids is an old favorite of mine, and after a couple of games getting shot down by small UFOs, I managed to get the second highest score on the machine.
- 9394I was experimenting with enabling HLSL stuff in MAME and making this game look like I remember the real arcade machine looking.
- 9396Before our board meeting, I played a little Asteroids. The more I play, the more I enjoy this game.
- 9633I've been trying to record good looking videos from MAME Asteroids, but it's proven tricky:
- For the vector screen to look realistic, enabling HLSL effects is required (
hlsl_enable 1) - Internal MAME recording using
-aviwritedoesn't record the HLSL effects
- For the vector screen to look realistic, enabling HLSL effects is required (
- 9634I ended up recording the MAME window FRAPS.
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