Vectrex developers had invented them all

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jbperin
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Vectrex developers had invented them all

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As I was questioning him on how to create vectorial graphics game on Oric, Dbug talked to me about the Vectrex machine that I was totally ignorant about.

I enquired a little bit about the game production on this machine and I realize that they are some very good game concept amongst what was produced on it.



I find it fascinating that so much quality entertainment could be produced with so few resources.
No color .. no filling. Only points and lines and talented creators and developers.

I wonder if the games presented in this video was produced before their equivalent version on other platfroms. If yes it means that Vectrex developers had invented some of the most important game concept in game history.

Even the defence force game was available on Vectrex :shock:
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Re: Vectrex developers had invented them all

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Well, in fact it turns out that most of Vectrex games were inspired from arcade version.

Some of them look original though. Cosmic Chasm For example is said to be one of the first (and probably the only) home salon game to be ported on arcade.

And I don't know for Spike which is either an 3D ancestror or a 3D clone of Donkey Kong.

Anyway .. it is very interesting to see how they adapted the games with only points and lines
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Re: Vectrex developers had invented them all

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It was an interesting system, but got boring very fast. I do think the concept of a vector machine in general is pretty cool though - but only if lasers are involved. ;)
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