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Battlezone, supertanks in outer space (1980)

Early 3D arcade game using vector graphics.

Wikipedia,

With its use of three-dimensional vector graphics, the game is considered to be the first true 3D arcade game that has a first-person perspective, the "first big 3D success" in the video game industry, and the first successful first-person shooter video game in particular.

It got ported to every other thing, and most of the screenshots I found are from the ports to raster computers. I think this is a photo of the vector one,

Guessing here but I think the colors came from simple colored filters over the monitor. So the red score area just had a red film over it etc, and the arcade HW couldn't do color.

Cabinet,

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