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Really Cool Cockpits
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Cockpits, dashboards, crew stations - if it's in a vehicle and you sit in it, it belongs here! Run by @wildweasel486.bsky.social . I try to include full context in alt texts. This account is maintained 100% manually and is not on a schedule.
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Working with an actual Unity coder to update some Wing Leader code! Which means now my cockpits need to support widescreen, soooooo, here's some updated renders fresh outta 3dsMAX!
November 12, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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📖 Bytes of Game Ads 📺

What a cool 3D-effect double page ad for ASCII's Cosmo Genesis (Star Voyager), a pretty nifty space shooter of the kind I'm fond of, where you hop around a grid similar to Star Master or Solaris.
A gorgeous illustrated ad of an angled sci-fi space fighter cockpit with some great depth so it feels like you're standing right there. Many glowy panels and a view of space that mimics what you see in the game.
November 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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borman.bsky.social
A few of the many user interface changes that Descent went through. From February 94, to April 94, to June 94. From the Volition collection at The Strong.
October 31, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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porksweats.bsky.social
star wars: episode iii - revenge of the sith (2005)
October 20, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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atomicspaceage.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Cadillac Allante, designed by Pininfarina (1987)
October 23, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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70sscifiart.bsky.social
It's Control Panel Saturday: Here's the uncredited 1983 cover art for the Atari game 'Encounter.'
missleA guy in a VR-looking helmet faces a screen showing a crystaline flying saucer hovering in a green field surrounded by three yellow upright tubes. A control panel below the screen shows off tetris-like buttons as well as three big glowing buttons: A red one reads 'missile', a yellow one 'saucer', and a blue one 'attack.'
September 20, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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God, that dashboard. Love it.
September 18, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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Opel Monza (1983)
September 16, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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July 21, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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Isuzu Piazza (1981)
July 9, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Toyota Land Cruiser "90" Prado series (1996)
June 24, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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This one took quite a lot of work. Doing anything from Pacific Theater is super difficult since most of these planes crashed into the ocean. So having any refs is very difficult
www.artstation.com/artwork/y4l08J

#3d #airplane #ww2 #japanese #3dart #gameart #indianajones #3dartist #pacific #warplane
June 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
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Holy shit direct feed Cyber Sterra footage
【資料映像】CYBER STERRA
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June 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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Cockpits of NES flight sims: Top Gun, Airwolf, F-117A, and Infiltrator. Credits in alt texts.
Screenshot of Top Gun (NES, 1987, Konami) from MobyGames contributor chirinea. In the cockpit of Top Gun's famous F-14 Tomcat, we have clear instrumentation consisting of digital 7-segment readings for altitude and airspeed, a bar graph indicating fuel, an artificial horizon, a radar map, and numeric indicators of remaining missiles. Screenshot of Airwolf (NES, 1989, Beam Software) from MobyGames contributor Alaka. We are flying the eponymous Airwolf super attack helicopter from the TV series of the same name. A regional map dominates the center of the display, while bars indicate remaining fuel, and numeric readings display airspeed and altitude. This cockpit also includes a score display, in case spraying little fighter-jet icons on the nose is too old-fashioned. Screenshot of F-117A Stealth Fighter (1992, NES, MicroProse) from MobyGames contributor Multimedia Mike. We are flying the titular F-117A Nighthawk, an advanced stealth fighter designed for flying night-time recon, aerial attack, and bombardment missions. The cockpit here has 7-segment displays for altitude, speed, heading in degrees, and remaining ammunition for missiles, chaff, flares, and machine guns (despite the real F-117 not having the latter). A satellite map is in the center of the panel, while the reflector shows a crudely rendered night vision display. This aircraft is also equipped with a score display. Screenshot of Infiltrator (NES, 1987, Mindscape) from MobyGames contributor LepricahnsGold [sic]. We are in the cockpit of the "Top Top Top Secret" WhizBang Enterprizes Gizmo DHX-3 stealth attack helicopter, as piloted by elite operative Johnny "Jimbo Baby" McGibbits. He is doing a poor job of remaining stealthy, as an oncoming plane has just hit the Gizmo with a missile. This highly advanced stealth craft has a full complement of analog gauges: heading in degrees, altitude, airspeed, artificial horizon, and a plane-shaped compass that is supposed to tell you the direction of your objective (but is functionally useless if Jimbo Baby forgets to call HQ before taking off). A selection of letters on either side of the instrument panel indicate various functions that can be toggled, such as the radio, turbo thrusters, missiles, chaff, and the "WhizBang Whisper" system that silences the helicopter's rotors during landing (or else Jimbo Baby is immediately captured as soon as he lands behind enemy lines).
May 11, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Some Cassette Futurism for your Monday feeds?

This amazing thing is the Ford Tripmonitor, a 1983 GPS mapper that used the Transit Satellite network and a magnetic compass and could play micro-cassettes.
A photo of a very early 80s piece of tech in chocolate brown leather and plastic with all kinds of buttons and dials on it and a vector graphic route map that gives it a very Fallout-ish tech vibe.
March 18, 2024 at 3:07 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
CRT screenies of an unreleased Battletech game for Mega/Sega-CD that I just had a tinker around with: Gray Death Legion.

Due to be released in 1995 and developed by Absolute Entertainment, this would have been a first-person arcade sim similar to the Super Nintendo BT/Mechwarrior game.
A snap of the richly detailed cockpit, all greenish and techie, with a cool rotating radar, with a burning hot desert world outside. Our mech's guns are blazing as another opens fire at us. A snap from another part of the rolling demo showing a tactical map with waypoints and objective markers, shown in an in-universe analogue techie way. A cool hub base star map of a star system with orbital rings and planets. Another cockpit shot, very cool stuff
May 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Good Morning
May 24, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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May 22, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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designerbradley.bsky.social
Hi! I'm making Alliance Peacefighter, a story-driven space sim with a light tone. Think Wing Commander by way of Starfox.

bsky.app/profile/desi...
designerbradley.bsky.social Brad Jeffrey @designerbradley.bsky.social · Apr 12
Alliance Peacefighter, a linear, story-driven space sim in the style of 90s classics like X-Wing and Wing Commander.

Wishlist now:
store.steampowered.com/app/3538210/...

(Re-post because the link was broken on the last one)

#Gamedev #IndieDev #IndieGame #Unity3D #MadeWithUnity #WingCommander
May 24, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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70sscifiart.bsky.social
For Control Panel Saturday: Two Analog covers by Frank Kelly Freas. The one with the ironic shoulder patch is from July 1964 and the one with the "timeline" dial is from Nov 1965.
Three soldiers all sleep while at their stations, each of which has a round screen depicting spheres hovering over a major city, alongside flashing instructions saying "Foe," "Destroy," "Status: Hot" and "Priority: AAAA1." The nearest soldier has a shoulder patch reading "Semper Vigilans." A hand reaches to flip a switch on a chunky control panel that includes a "paratime monitor" screen featuring a person with long blonde hair riding a horse while wearing ancient armor and holding a yellow pendant. Other controls include a dial labeled "timeline" that can be turned to the numbers 1 through 5, a "relevance" radar screen, a "pickup number" reader, and assorted screens and knobs.
May 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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You know what? It counts. ☺️
startrekshots.bsky.social Star Trek Shots @startrekshots.bsky.social · May 23
Communications station, STAR TREK (2009)
Communications station on the reimagined USS Enterprise bridge. According to STAR TREK UI designer Jorge Almeida, "The design direction given from the Production Designer was that he wanted the interfaces to be abstract and colorful, with minimum text."
May 23, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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XF5700 MANTIS: Experimental Fighter (1992, DOS, MicroProse / Paragon Software).
Screenshot of XF5700 MANTIS: Experimental Fighter (1992, DOS, MicroProse / Paragon Software) from MobyGames contributor DaWade. The viewable area of the cockpit of the titular XF5700 takes on an unusual wedge shape, with extra thick reinforcement struts going up diagonally from the bottom center up to the corners. The Mantis has three multi-function displays, one of which is quite a lot shorter than the other two. Currently, the left one displays a systems overview, and the right shows a list of weapons including Mass Driver, Stinger, Data G Probe, Nuke Missile, Pseudostellr, and Laser. The center display would normally show throttle percentage, fuel stocks, and G forces, but presently doesn't for some reason.
May 23, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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A complete loop of the non-playable demo of BlueMoon Software's "Stellar Xpress" (1994, MS-DOS). Originally intended as a VR sequel to SkyRoads, it was sold to a VR company as a demo program.

Source: www.bluemoon.ee/history/stel...
#DOSGaming
April 30, 2025 at 10:15 PM
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This really warrants further comparisons to its two predecessors: BlueMoon Software's Kosmonaut (1990) and SkyRoads (1993), which despite being third-person, still have visible cockpits.

#DOSGaming
Screenshot of Kosmonaut (DOS, 1990, BlueMoon Software), from MobyGames contributor Damian Fraimorice. Our ship (in view to the left) is hopping across platforms suspended in space, but our view is still from its cockpit. While a blue-colored screen on the left and three switches on the right are not functional, the center instruments show us our current speed, fuel, and oxygen levels. Screenshot of SkyRoads (DOS, 1993, BlueMoon Software), from MobyGames contributor Andy Voss. Again our ship is visible in front of us, but the cockpit is still on screen, now represented in 256 color VGA. The layout is completely different. The gauge cluster in the center consists of a large circle indicating the current speed, and inside of that are two half-circles indicating oxygen and fuel. To either side of the gauges are a reading of the current road's gravity, and the Jump-O-Master, which indicates whether the jump button is ready. Far to the left, a horizontal purple bar-graph shows the completion progress of the current road, filling in as the ship continues forward.
May 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM