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Re: Dark Planet - Found it!!
07/25/15 08:43 PM


> this doesn't look like a picture... it looks more like a sculpture type of thing...
> looks realistic.

Yes, the video elements were layered over the background model via a semi-transparent mirror. It was a fairly common technique in older black & white games (Asteroids Deluxe, Boot Hill, Guided Missile), but they used fairly simple cardboard cutouts or vacuformed plastic backgrounds. This one must have been considerably more expensive to produce, which (combined with poor sales) might explain why so few were made.







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* Dark Planet Comboman 07/18/15 03:48 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet Mr. DoAdministrator  07/18/15 04:16 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet TrevEB  07/24/15 09:43 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Mr. DoAdministrator  07/20/15 09:42 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Big Karnak  07/25/15 10:41 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Comboman  07/25/15 08:43 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Dullaron  07/25/15 12:22 PM
. * Dark Planet (ver 2.0) Comboman  07/25/15 03:47 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet (ver 2.0) Envisaged0ne  07/25/15 08:00 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet (ver 2.0) Dullaron  07/25/15 03:55 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet (ver 2.0) Comboman  07/25/15 03:51 AM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Comboman  07/20/15 11:42 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Vaughan  07/20/15 06:12 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet - Found it!! Dullaron  07/20/15 02:23 PM
. * Re: Dark Planet Comboman  07/18/15 03:50 AM

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