Return Of The Jedi

Manufacturer: Atari
Year: 1984
Class: Wide Release
Genre: Platform
Type: Videogame

Monitor:

Orientation: Horizontal
Type: Raster: Standard Resolution
CRT: Color
19-inch Electrohome G07

Conversion Class: unique
Number of Simultaneous Players: 1
Maximum number of Players: 1
Gameplay: Single
Control Panel Layout: Single Player Ambidextrous
Controls:

Steering: X/Y-directional yoke with common triggers and thumb buttons

Sound: Unamplified Stereo (requires two-channel amp)

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Return Of The Jedi Description

The player controls an on-screen ship in one of three different stages -- Speeder Bikes, the Millenium Falcon and an AT-ST walker -- in a third-erson perspective, shooting enemies and avoiding obstacles to reach the end of each stage.

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Cabinet Information

This game used a cabinet design that is very similar to other dedicated Atari classics like Firefox and Major Havoc. Decals of Luke Skywalker on a speeder bike and Darth Vader's helmet are on the upper section of the cabinet that contains the monitor. There is no artwork on the lower section of the cabinet.

Game Introduction

In the first stage of the game, you pilot a Speeder bike where you must avoid enemy bikes and trees in an attempt to reach the Ewok village where you receive a 10,000 point bonus. The second stage has you controlling the 'Falcon as you dodge obastacles and TIE Fighters to reach the reactor and blow it up. The next round has you flying a speeder bike again, followed by the driving of an ATST scout walker. After another round of Speeder bikes you enter a "split-time" mode, where you alternate between the ATST and the Millenium Falcon's assault upon a Star Destroyer. The game switches between these two modes every few seconds.

Unlike the previous Star Wars titles released by Atari, this game does not implement a "first person" cockpit perspective, but instead uses a pulled-back 3rd person perspective that is very similar to that of Sega's Zaxxon.

VAPS Arcade Census

GAMES OWNED, WANTED, or FOR SALE BY MEMBERS OF THE VIDEO ARCADE PRESERVATION SOCIETY

Common - There are 38 known instances of Return Of The Jedi owned by one of our 900 members. Of these, 35 of them are original dedicated machines, it is a conversion in which game circuit boards (and possibly cabinet graphics) have been placed in (and on) another game cabinet, and 2 of them are only circuit boards which a collector could put into a generic case if desired.

Of the 57,098 video games (3,420 unique) tracked by the Video Game Preservation Society, this game ranks a 15 on a scale out of 100 (100 = most commonly seen, 1=least common) in popularity based on ownership records.

Wanted - There are 6 VAPS members currently looking for Return Of The Jedi.

For Sale - There are 3 VAPS members with Return Of The Jedi machines for sale. VAPS members are totally independent of VAPS and the International Arcade Museum, and we are unable to recommend, endorce, or guarantee any person or company selling games or game parts.

Rarity is NOT necessarily an indication of value. Some common games show up as very rare here because collectors don't want them (they are common because arcade operators might be sitting on tons of them in warehouses), while some fairly scarce games are grabbed by collectors every time they show up. Additionally, some games made in the last 5 years are still making money for operators and are thus not yet affordable to the typical collector. For a clue to value, compare how many people have this game vs. how many people want this game and then click on the eBay links to help determine an accurate price range.

Technical

There are no physical DIP switches found on the game board. All game settings are modified in test mode and then saved to an EEPROM. The game has a large amount of digitized speech and sound effects that are generated by the TMS 5220, the same speech IC used in Atari's Gauntlet.

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