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Nintendo's Sky Hawk film reel scenes 1976)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1-lUgkT2sz4

Too bad Fazeo is no longer around here on MW forums, but this is exactly what Fazeo had asked about
on loonybin forum way back in fall 2001. Fazeo’s game name question is what got me started into looking for
company that marketed the film reel games and the game names themselves.

Anyways. Yep. Brings back memories when playing Nintendo Sky Hawk sometime either in
1978 or 1979 when the miniature golf course (gone after widening freeway) next to southbound 405 freeway in Fountain Valley, CA had a Nintendo Sky Hawk cab there for a few months. The times I recall playing the game then there were no lines of patrons waiting to play the game compared to WG.

The reason why the horizontal split screen in the film reel capture, is the film reel output consisted of a top part and a bottom part of the film reel. When a plane is considered as being hit, an internal device, mirror iirc, would reflect the explosion scene ( bottom part of film reel ) on to the project screen. The white circle is the tracking hit box sensor from player’s gun so when plane target intersects, the film screen output of plane explosion is then projected on to the projection screen instead of the airplane target.

Impressive design concept for its time because it meant not having to rely on extra film reels nor projection unit players which WG required. The Nintendo Battleshark film reel game also uses the same design concept as
Sky Hawk. The gameplay difference is war ships are the targets while player is flying an airplane. I never saw
Nintendo Battleshark in person, but there is a place in the UK that is or was running Battleshark at a location.

I would like to believe any of the film reels can be eventually preserved and hopefully restored to some as best possible original state.