This was in my college dorm's game room and I spent a lot of time in that trench. But weirdly I could have sworn it wasn't in color. Was there a green-and-black version?
I recall playing a monochrome version as well. Maybe there was an edition with cheaper hardware?
You may have been using a cabinet with a replacement monitor. The vector monitors are a bit special, so after their heyday it would have been harder to find parts.
I think this was probably in the early 80s. It could have been a replacement. I wonder if an Asteroids cabinet was converted over.
You may be confusing it with Atari's Battlezone, which was a black and white vector game, with a green gel overlay on the screen to create "color".
With a strip of red gel overlay for the radar at the top.
There was another game similar to Battlezone only it was a cocktail table only version. Helicopter something or other, played it many times as a teen but I can't recall the name.
There were a lot of vector games, but I'd be astounded if anyone could confuse Battlezone with Star Wars. They're not even remotely similar.
Agreed - but time can be a strange mistress! The only vector game with predominantly green vectors I can think of would be Gravitar.
I definitely remember it being in color, a few colors anyway.