The Plaid Hologram Overlay


An old scan of a videogame magizine I found online from the late 80's.
Best as I can read from the article..

Plaid Hologram

"they've gone plaid"
And unamed Atari emp
shared some devlop
for a tie-in game with
Mel Brook's ??? movie
Spaceballs

Detalis are sketchy, b
apparently this screen
overlay is lit by the
led array to activate 
one of 6 holograms
sequentially for 
an animated effect
during bonus se???

It(sp) uknown when the 
release date will
be for this game.


Sounds like they were doing more than just a prop at this point. Given Atari's research into hologram technology, entirely plausible. I would say this would be fitted where the normal reflective glass goes in a standard Asteroids Deluxe. It's not said if the game was vector or raster in this article, but I'm still researching the details.




A sketch from some notes I found..
My theory as to how they work.. A led is lit, making the hologram opaque.
Then the next led is lit, next hologram. Repeat as needed.

Gameplay movie!


Turns out they were using frames from the movie itself- easily replicated with the DVD! Go plaid-Screen size version

Now all I need is a 19" diagoanal hologram printing service. Cheap. Looks to be about 7 layers.
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