Thunder Ceptor

[Discoalucard]

www.hardcoregaming101.net/thunderceptor/thunderceptor.htm

In some ways a predecessor to Burning Force, this Namco arcade game features some cool 3D sprite scaling effects, though the game as a whole isn't QUITE up to the level of Sega's super scaler games.

[Weasel]

I kind of worry that this one might get lost in the gigantic flood of new article threads that got posted yesterday, so I will bump it with a question: can anybody furnish better pictures of the cabinets for the Thunder Ceptor games, or a more detailed description of how 3-D Thunder Ceptor II's 3D glasses worked?

[Joseph Joestar]

Jul 1, 2013 14:09:16 GMT -5 Weasel said:

I kind of worry that this one might get lost in the gigantic flood of new article threads that got posted yesterday, so I will bump it with a question: can anybody furnish better pictures of the cabinets for the Thunder Ceptor games, or a more detailed description of how 3-D Thunder Ceptor II's 3D glasses worked?

I'll check when I get home, it might be in the Shin Meikan or All About Namco books.

[Shou]

I have Thunder Ceptor II, the glasses are shutter glass tech. The game was designed to be a conversion kit for legacy Pole Position machines. The analog controller is the same yoke used in Atari's Star Wars showing the influences their early 80's partnership had.