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Starhawk (arcade Game)
''Starhawk'' is a 1979 Vector monitor, vector arcade game designed and programmed by Tim Skelly and manufactured by Cinematronics. ''Starhawk'' is a shoot 'em up unofficially based on the ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars: Episode IV'' trench run, one of the first arcade games to blatantly use concepts from ''Star Wars''. The game was unique at the time for its pseudo-3D graphics. It was distributed in Japan by Sega, and was later ported for the Vectrex home system in 1982. The arcade cabinet had a cinder block placed inside of it, to prevent it from tipping onto the player. Plot According to the Vectrex manual, the story involves "protecting your comrades from alien ships trying to infiltrate your culture" and "defending the sovereignty of your planet." Gameplay Various ships, reminiscent of TIE fighters, appear on the horizon of the trench and the player has to shoot them before they destroy the player's ship. The player is given initially sixty seconds, but additional twenty se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Starhawk (born Miriam Simos on June 17, 1951) is an American feminist and author. She is known as a theorist of feminist Neopaganism and ecofeminism. In 2013, she was listed in Watkins Books, Watkins' ''Mind Body Spirit'' magazine as one of the 100 Most Spiritually Influential Living People. Early life Starhawk was born in 1951 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her father Jack Simos, died when she was five. Her mother, Bertha Claire Goldfarb Simos, was a professor of social work at UCLA. Both her parents were the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia. In high school she and feminist Christina Hoff Sommers were best friends. Starhawk received a Bachelor of Arts, BA in Fine Arts from UCLA. In 1973, while she was a graduate student in film there, she won the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Awards, Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award for her novel, ''A Weight of Gold'', a story about Venice, California, where she then lived. She received an MA in Psychology, with a concentration in feminist therapy, f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
