Talk:Star Castle

I think the original bit on shield regeneration was correct. Shields regenerate when the outer one is fully destroyed. Spottedowl 18:02, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

It's been at least 4 years since I played this, so I'll change the details. --Larsinio 18:18, 13 March 2006 (UTC)

Science 80

The development of Star Castle was the subject of an article in Science 80 magazine back then. I saved the issue for years because I loved the game so much. I specifically remember the article talking about how the programming of the mines to have them follow your ship would have required increasing the amount of memory and thus the expense of the machine, and they solved this problem by instead having the mine go towards what quarter of the screen your ship was in, etc.

Wow: that's a pretty crazy optimisation that I wasn't aware of. No idea who wrote the above paragraph, but thank you for sharing. Bart.Read 22:38, 8 Feb 2020 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 04:49, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Raster image

I don’t think that’s an original image. Aliasing from a raster display is visible in the diagonal lines and in the curve of the circles. I think that’s an emulator screen shot.

Compare the emulator shots and the video of the real machine at https://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9754 BrianSniffen (talk) 01:04, 12 February 2020 (UTC)

Legacy

"In an interview, Skelly admitted that the stellar filed was made using the shape of a woman from a nude magazine".

What the hell is the above supposed to even mean? Cleblutie (talk) 09:04, 3 January 2023 (UTC)