I don't believe that I'd like to be like a tennis ball during a crash..

.. oh, what was this thread about? Right. Personal gaming room. Let me post a picture of my immediate environment this morning:

A pacman costume would do nicely, it has enough soft damping in case of a fall or crashing in to wall.

Infact we  should all be wearing pacman-suits when riding motorbikes, skiing or playing hockey. The protective properties are supperior to any leather and plastic. But we can't very well have half a population of pacmans, can we.

Unless some people dressed as ghosts.

Embedded *in rock*.

Always a sight for sore eyes. Thanks, and happy holidays!

Aha, ofcourse. All the background LD-layer could be re-rendered, even improved, and run in real-time today on let's say PS3 hardware. The point is; are the templates/models and pre-rendered data still available? If not namco could ofcourse do a similar space adventure from scratch, but then it would not be Galaxian 3.

If namco would use the original LD-imaging for the Playstation3 it would be far less defined and not very suited for true HD. The original LD were low-res 15kHz, and the PS3 with a large LCD at 1080 lines would just make it all look ugly. But we can ofcourse hope that namco still has the coordinates and pre-rendered 3D data to re-create the 'background movie', either as mpeg or realtime.

Just a question. Does Galaxian3 use interlace? Like most namco systems at that time.

I think that Galaxian³ will not be implemented as a bonus game, or at all in any main program from namco due to its particular technical characteristic of being a Laser Disc based game. There are two different technologies running in sync on one (or in this case two) screens; the LD and CG layers.

The only way to emulate the Galaxian³ game on other hardware excluding a LD player, is to run the background sequence as mpeg/avi.

Bonus games, such as Starblade, Solvalou and Galaxian, are easy to implement because they are single code programs using realtime rendered visuals by a single hardware.

Is it just me, or... ?  I keep seeing bits and pieces of Starblade everywhere, under the pinball machine, along the walls, and kind of spread around. Is it the Starblade plague going on in Belgium or did a Geosword recently crash near Blankenberg?

Do you mind if I just take a moment, and have some coffe in your Starblade seat over there?