MAMEWorld Forums - EmuChat - Re: Arcade game graphics, explanations and demos

>I've also done entries on graphics from discrete components and sprite extraction.

See my old post regarding PSE's Desert Patrol and grab Marc Lafontaine's [deceased? going by from what I had read in the past] Ripper program that I uploaded in my 2014 post.

It works with some of the black/white simple images from various 1970s era roms.

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time for PSE Desert Patrol mini thread *edit*
10/02/14 11:22 AM Attachment: rip081.zip 152 KB (17 downloads)

https://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/sh...part=1&vc=1

Marc Lafontaine's program called Ripper which can be grabbed from here as a zip file attachment.
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>I imagine there are a lot of people on here who are knowledgeable about these topics and
>would welcome comments and/or constructive criticism. I'm also open to suggestions of
>games to study, especially from 1980 and earlier.

Check Keith Smith's golden age / bronze age blog site that has info of some of 1970s era coinop games since there might be some games (not yet emulated) that might be worth a couple sentences or two. Keith used to write past articles on GameRoom magazine and interviewed game designers such as Allied Leisure's Jack Pearson back in post 2000A.D. era.

If you haven't done so yet, maybe have an entry for upright cabs (either Midway 8080 hardware or Gremlin z80 vic/dual hardware) that have monitor mounted on bottom of upright cab projecting the monitor screen output onto a reverse mirror and projects images on to a backdrop scenery piece that is mounted on back end of interior of upright cab? This was done for a few black/white monitor games [some also used color overlay strips placed on to monitor that also projected on to back end of cab such as Midway Space Invaders] to make up for being unable to display complex images [ie graphics] on screen. There were a fair number of 1970s era upright games that had a setup as described. Gremlin's Frogs [one of my favorite 1970s era games], Gremlin's Safari, Midway Space Invaders, Midway baseball games [Tornado Baseball, Extra Innings etc.], Midway Boot Hill, PSE Desert Patrol, and a few others I forget.