Cinematronics

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Cinematronics Incorporated

Industry	Video games
Founded	April 1, 1975
Defunct	October 21, 1987
Fate	Purchased by Tradewest and assets used to created The Leland Corporation
Successor	The Leland Corporation
Headquarters	El Cajon, California
Key people	Jim Pierce (co-founder) Thomas Stroud Fred Fukumoto
Products	Space Wars Star Castle Dragon's Lair "World Series: The Season"
Subsidiaries	Cinematronics International, Inc.

Cinematronics Incorporated was an arcade game developer that primarily released vector graphics games in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While other companies released games based on raster displays, early in their history, Cinematronics and Atari, Inc. released vector-display games, which offered a distinctive look and a greater graphic capability (at the time), at the cost of being only black and white (initially). Cinematronics also published Dragon's Lair in 1983, the first major LaserDisc video game.