Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
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Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
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Re: Unseen Footage of Atari Battlezone Arcade Cabinet Production
#2The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.
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#3I worked in a restaurant in 81 while in HS. Next door was a convenience store that had Defender and Battlezone. I think I spent half of what I made on those two games for a few weeks. I would sneak out for a game. An addiction. I can still hear those Battlezone sounds in my head 45 years later.
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#4I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content.
Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text.
It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt.
Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own name on the back stating what you’re doing in an obscure way.
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#5I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
Having some shirts screen-printed for your employees strikes me as a totally normal workplace behavior.
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#6I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
I don't think that's likely, claiming forged historical footage is real would be a very stupid way to torch one's reputation in a niche field. But it is a bit concerning that the author doesn't declare the source of the video. Especially since they're claiming it hasn't been put online before.
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#7I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
I agree with the normalcy comment re screen printing. But the video does seem too high resolution from what I would expect. And why doesn't author discoose the source or a reason video was taken. Odd that there's very little chatter between employees but they were in front of a camera. Otherwise very interesting video. We loved battlezone.Way cooler than any other game at the time.
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#8I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
I don't think so. Perhaps AI-upscaled? The footage looks legit and would track with the tube cameras that would have likely been used at that time. Although it sucks that it's deinterlaced to 30fps. Video like this really needs to be preserved without immediately throwing out half of the motion
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#9I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
I agree with the normalcy comment re screen printing. But the video does seem too high resolution from what I would expect. And why doesn't author discoose the source or a reason video was taken. Odd that there's very little chatter between employees but they were in front of a camera. Otherwise very interesting video. We loved battlezone.Way cooler than any other game at the time.
> But the video does seem too high resolution from what I would expect.
Completely depends on what they were shooting on, the state of the media, the scanning methods used, any post-processing, etc. At first glance this does not look AI generated to me but hey, could be wrong
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#10I believe these are AI-generated photos, and perhaps content. Look at the back of Dave Compton’s shirt carefully, and you’ll notice that the left side starts to have garbled text. It’s very impressive, though. If I’m wrong, and these are real, then I’m very interested why Dave was wearing that shirt. Back in the day, it wouldn’t have been normal to have a custom shirt like that with different font sizes with your own…
I'd find it easier to believe this comment is AI generated, given that the account is only 53 minutes old. The text on the t-shirt looks totally normal to me.
The fact that this blogger, whose blog I'm reading for the first time today, has been posting archive footage and imagery, using a pretty similar format, from the same factory since at least 2019 (https://arcadeblogger.com/2019/12/26/atari-coin-op-archive-f...), and also the fact that the new post is his first blog post in 18th months, makes me think it's highly unlikely that this the post AI generated in any way.