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What was the sit-down Star Wars arcade game?

Star Wars (Atari)

Released
1983
Made by
Atari
How it played
Vector graphics, a yoke controller, the Death Star trench run, and digitized voice clips from the film
The cabinet
An upright and a sit-down cockpit version; the cockpit is the one people remember

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You sat in it, pulled a flight yoke, and heard Obi-Wan tell you to use the Force from the film's actual audio. The wireframe TIE fighters and the trench run were as close to the movie as 1983 got.

The cockpit cabinet was the machine every arcade put by the front window. Hitting the exhaust port and watching the Death Star blow up in vector lines is the memory; the quarter it cost was the best-spent of the decade.

Sources: Wikipedia — Star Wars (1983 video game)

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