Plate IV · Experiment
Sector 404
Sector 404
An X-wing, three waves of TIE fighters, and a Star Destroyer that will not leave. Arrows or A and D to steer, space to fire, or just point at the screen.
Sector 404
Nothing here but the fleet
Clear 3 waves of TIEs, knock out the four turrets, then put the rest into the bridge.
How it works
This cabinet was built for the 404 page, where a wrong address drops you into a sector with a Star Destroyer in it. A game that only appears when you mistype a URL is hard to send to anyone, so it has an address of its own as well.
The scenery is printed, not filled. Every silhouette is drawn solid to an offscreen canvas and then punched through a dot screen, one pass in oxide three pixels out of register and one in ink over the top, which is the same two-colour press the rest of this site is set on. The ships stay solid because a halftoned TIE at nineteen pixels is a smudge, and you have to read it in the time it takes to cross the screen.
Clear three waves and the Destroyer comes in from the top. Its turrets have to go before the bridge will take a hit.