Then he made many of them available on his personal ANSI art commerce website, from which I scraped the following pieces some time prior to the artpack's release. The artpack release itself was scheduled for release in May - we figured they were targeting the prefab consumerist neo-holiday May 4 (for "May the 4th Be With You", blarrgh) but that date came and went (in its honour I vented all the Star Wars-themed pieces from the Mistigris back catalogues on our Mistigram Instagram feed) and they stayed quiet until May 25th, marking the 40th anniversary since the original theatrical release of Star Wars.Įnzo, a central Blocktronics organizer, was pushing the Star Wars pack hard, and made sure he had a good body of work saved up well before the artpack's release deadline. The below piece, bearing all the hallmarks of an Enzo small-scale production, graced a call for submissions with a deadline of Jan 31st. Something particular to this 67 artpack is that it had a call for submissions posted quite a bit in advance. Again, you'll be seeing all this in the next post in this series, probably around the time "Young Han Solo" hits the theatres. Not only did their stable of godly ANSI artists channel their earliest and most profound fandoms into ANSI art, I also sent my colleague teletext cottage industry Horsenburger their way to show the ANSI kids just what one dedicated man and a teletext editor could make happen. rgUpxvyJ40Īs referenced above multiple times, the May 2017 Blocktronics artpack, "Detention Block AA-23", was a 100% Star Wars-themed joint. but fortunately I retained the provenance of the following teletext screen, drawn by Jason Robertson!Ī piece of #teletext #pixelart I've made to celebrate the Oct 1982 debut on ITV. This post has been so long in the waiting I can no longer recall from which website I scraped that HTML version of the arcade game's difficulty setting screen from. THE REBEL FORCE IS DEPENDING ON YOU TO STOP THE EMPIRE! IF THINGS LOOK MESSED UP CHECK YOUR 'FIXED-WIDTH FONT' SETTINGS.Ĥ. CHOOSE EASY WAVE FOR BASIC BROWSERS, MEDIUM OR HARD FOR BROWSERSģ. AIM YOUR LASERSĪND THEN PULL TRIGGER TO FIRE AT YOUR SELECTION.Ģ. YOUR X-WING IS EQUIPPED WITH HIGH ENERGY LASERS. ![]() I know what you're all thinking about: Atari's 1983 Star Wars vector graphics arcade game! I was going to imitate the opening crawl here, but wouldn't you rather see this post sometime this year? (Besides, I can't really trump Kirkman's feats in this field.)All right, without further ado.
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