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While you're doing your best to single-handedly save Earth, the Bosconians have a slightly better tactical strategy of using a lot more than one spacefighter to keep you from achieving that goal. My goal when playing was to blast away a space station with one well placed bullet before zooming off to the next one. You can safely float about space, carefully picking off space stations, but that attracts more space fighters towards you. Here in lies the addictive strategy of the game. You can do this by either attacking the six gun-pods surrounding each station, or throw caution to the wind and dive straight towards the weak point Independence Day style and destroy the entire space station in one attack. The objective is to destroy all the evil space stations junking up space. The ship could fly in not just four, but eight directions! Your only weapon, a gun that fires in front and behind you simultaneously, which is actually a damn bit better than even modern shoot-em-ups can be sometimes. For one, you could move beyond the field of the screen, pretty mind blowing back in 1982. Now there are first-person shooters, third-person shooters, shmups, arcade shooters, rail shooters.Įven though Bosconian did poorly outside of Japan, it held some impressive innovations for the time. Of course, back in those days we called them shooters, until you kids usurped that moniker for your CoDs and your GoWs. Anyone that has bought a classic games compilation knows that there are a few great classics, but more often than not, many of the games are forgotten also ran titles that are tossed in to bulk up the list of games.įor filler, Bosconian is a surprisingly inventive take on the burgeoning shoot-em-up genre. Bosconian was the filler that padded out the '5 games in 1!' roster. Look past those everyday classics that sell the joystick to impulse buyers. That joystick housed five classic Namco games. For a slight cross section of those two circumstances there wasn't even a console in my life, there was a mere joystick. Once I printed out the Marquee, I sandwiched it between two thin sheets of acrylic.As a lowly teenager, I spent most of my time angsting and playing video games, but as a lowly poor person, there were times when video games were hard to come by. This was printed on special media that is designed to be back lit. I was able to find a high res vector image of the marquee, but I did have to “clean” it up a little. Again, this was printed on my DJ800 and glossy PVC laminated. The space station (or “base” as it is called in the game) was a MAME screen capture that I enlarged. Because the side of the cabinet is not as large as an original Bosconian, I decide to make custom side art. Once I let dry a little, I laminated it will a glossy PVC material. It is just printed on satin photo paper from my DJ800. So, basically I rebuilt the image so I could have the proper res. I only had a low res image of it, but I was able to get most of the artwork from the arcade game flyer. It was not laminated in anyway since it will be placed under 1/4” acrylic. I did however “clean” it up some as it looked to be a simple auto vectorization of a scanned image. I found a vector image of the bezel on the web. Obviously, it will not take the same abuse as polycarbonate, but it’s going to be in my house and not on location.

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Which means it won’t crack on the bends over time. This PVC laminate is a little lighter in weight and is not as stiff as the standard polycarbonate laminate that most use. I then laminated with a textured PVC material which looks and feels very close to arcade CPO laminate. Once I had the file done, I printed on my HP DesignJet 800 (or DJ800).

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The way I made the CPO was to download a low res image of it (mainly because I couldn’t find a high res image) and I redrew it. A lot of time went into creating the marquee, control panel overlay, bezel, kick art and side art.

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