Getting started on the Solar War playfield printing and found this quite interesting. Even working with the original films can still be troublesome. Colors mis-labeled or number can and has made for disastrous results. So before getting started on did what research I could on this. First thing I found cool about this art is that it uses elements later used in Atari’s Asteroids Deluxe.
The next thing I needed to determine was the colors to print and the order they would be printed in. The first film was listed as Fluorescent Yellow. matching the art/film to the ONLY pic I could find on the internet this didnt look Yellow to me. Its more like GREEN!
So my first thought was well maybe they just decided to screen fluorescent green instead. wouldnt be the first time Atari made on the fly changes and not mark the films, especially with something that was only in prototype stage. But then I thought lets look at pics of the original Atari Video Pinball to compare and low and behold the yellow screened in blacklight photographs green! I should’ve remembered that.
So now that I had my answer its time to get started…