Desirable original Gravitar arcade video game manufactured by Atari, Inc., and originally released in August 1982. Housed in its original cabinet, 25.25? x 72.25? x 31.5?, with incredible sci-fi graphics to side panels, marquee, and control plate, which features game instructions and buttons for number of players and controls: rotate left and right, fire, thrust, and tractor/shield. The back features the Atari manufacturing label, identifying this machine as Model No. 33100 and Serial NO. UR00247. Gravitar has a 1 or 2-player game option and features a color X-Y video display. This new display, with its three color guns and higher voltage, has the same technology that was used in previous Atari black-and-white X-Y displays. However, the screen now displays dazzling colors and unique visual effects. The player controls a spaceship in three different solar systems, with each solar system consisting of a home base, a death star, a red alien planet, and four regular planets. In fine, fully functioning condition, with trivial scuffs and wear to the cabinet.
Developed in 14 months, Gravitar was the first game that Mike Hally produced and designed for Atari. The game’s concept was based on a combination of Lunar Lander and Asteroids, and was the first game to have a real-time dynamic perspective; when you enter a planet, the screen zooms in to give you a closer look. In pop culture, Gravitar cabinets appear in the 1983 movie WarGames, in the 1983 James Bond movie Never Say Never Again, and in the 1987 Charles Bronson vehicle, Death Wish 4: The Crackdown. A rare Atari arcade cabinet as only 5,427 cabinets of Gravitar were ever produced.
