By that time vector games were overshadowed by the sprite scaling technology showcased in Sega's ' Space Harrier' and ' OutRun'. After Battlezone the company would go on to create ' Tempest' and ' Star Wars', twin pinnacles of vector arcade development, before abandoning vector hardware in 1985. The very first modern 'video game', ' Space Wars', had also been the first vector game, but its commercial incarnation ' Computer Space' was quickly buried under the weight of Pong, Atari's first product.Ītari went on to popularise the use of vector graphics in arcade machines in 1979, firstly with Howard Delman and Rich Moore's ' Lunar Lander' and latterly with Ed Logg's hugely popular ' Asteroids'. Although Battlezone did not originate the stereotypical motion picture 'computer graphic' effect, in which computers of centuries hence still present information as green wireframes on a black background, it looms large in the minds of special effects designers. It remains famous today for its visuals, which were technically astonishing in 1980 and remain stylish more than two decades later.
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