I remember playing this back in the day...the local arcade had the sitdown version, which was very atmospheric. I always felt like I was in THE FUTURE when I played it.
And You were correct. Now You can buy 70 inch TV, connect it to PlayStation5 or gaming PC, buy ergonomic armchair. This game was definitely glimpse into future.
As if Star Wars was any more original. No, I don't think so. Namco always had their own style without needing to obtain licenses for any game. Sega usually bought the licenses, but were the games better because of it? Not very much, I think. Starblade is simply a 3D-railshooter with an evolved Galaxian theme set in space, inspired by many contemporary space action movies at the time ofcourse it's not original, no videogame ever is. It's always a reflection of the entertainment industry in a particular time. Starblade still is and always will be the most well made 3D spaceshooter of all time. It's all 60fps flat shaded polygons, four channels alternating audio, the directing and programming of enemies and flight path is superb. Namco used their own insect enemies from Galaxian, implemented certain triangular flagships (star destroyers?), the planet Red Eye is ofcourse another sandy "death star", and the game worked out very well. Namco also made the larger theater railshooter Galaxian3, with an update. Several versions of size was made for amusement parks. Sega, or anyone else for that matter, never bothered making an attraction as large as the theatre-16. Anyone seen it? It's awesome. But none of the later Galaxians were as good as Starblade with its dual lasers and fat firing sounds. The game is played more easily with an analog joystick rather than with its original laser gun.
+Tomas Dahlgren If you think this is too much of an evolved Galaxian theme, Starblade had a sequel called Galaxian3 that was more like a 6 player version of this. Same elements used, such as the UGSF and the end theme music.
SNARCast Productions thats not true. Galaxian3 was the first, it was an atraction created in 1990, while Starblade was launched in 1991. I define Starblade as Galaxian3 for 1 player. The Galaxian3 that you know was Project Dragoon, an arcade game launched in 1992.
I remember this too... in the arcade, they dedicated an entire section to a massive enclosed booth meant to simulate a theater that can hold up to eight players, each with their own area of the screen to shoot at. cost about $2 to play, but it was freakin worth it.
This game was enjoyable. I first experienced it on Tekken 5. Always comes up before the actual game starts. Then it is an unlockable in Arcade History. It's been years since I played it, but I still think it's good.
I bought Tekken 5 just to play Starblade. The game to unlock it is SO FUCKING BORING that I finally bought a McBoot card and copied a score from the internet to the PS2. FINALLY Starblade at home!
@@gameglitcher4 incorrect, I was just at a VR arcade that had an incredible sit down VR section that did things for racing and flying, not to mention VR technology is still progressing and is now catching on super heavily thanks to Valve, so I can easily see something like this in the near future for VR and have it be super immersive.
Ah....This game is always so peaceful to watch during night time to me. Especially watching this in the dark as it puts you in a good atmosphere with a good side of virtual reality at the side.
If any of you dudes happen to come to Tokyo come to the Mikado in Takadanobaba - there's the Starblade arcade machine hidden in the corner. Man, every time I play that I get hella nauseous, but that SCRAMBLE boot sequence is TIGHT!!
a light gun game with a dynamic difficulty: The Lost World: Jurrasic Park. Now available for Supermodel Model 3 emulator. Higher difficulty means shorter dinosaur attack waiting periods and more target icons to stop attacks.
I Reckon that this game was created because Namco wanted the Star Wars Licence but Sega already had the licence for Star Wars. So they created this game instead with pretty much the same plot.
Actually, what Namco wanted to do, was attempt to make a Last Starfighter game after Atari had failed. They couldn't get the license, so they turned it into an original game that played the same way and had the same kind of visuals, but with different names and designs.
Star Blade is legendary shoot em up from Namco With ABSOLUTELY AWESOME 3d graphics and STUNNING gameplay The action is 2Fast 2Furious and entertaining This is a classic arcade game with a vengeance 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃
