Last saturday I received my Vectrex. All I can say to Liquidx => THANKS !!!!!!
A very good deal indeed, the Vectrex is in very nice condition, the controls are still excellent and so seems to monitor.
I am lucky and got the "GCE version"
Doesn't look like I'll reach level 13 on Minestorm soon I'm not that concerned about the bug
Played Minestorm (duh !), Rip Off (hard !), Scramble (most surprisingly good version !), Clean Sweep (fun Pac clone) and Cosmic Chasm.
As with anything, the real thing is the best to play !! I enjoyed the games a lot more than I expected and even my son loved Scramble.
The only thing I'm not sure off: with Clean Sweep the whole screen starts to "dance" a bit is that supposed to be so ?
It definitely is nice to not have to hook it up to a TV or monitor, it really is plug and play
It's funny, the first time when I saw the Vectrex (a lot of them actually) they were presented at a fair in Rotterdam (Femina for the Dutch guys, yes really, the same fair where I saw the Atari 600XL with Donkey Kong for the first time, I think that was one year later).
There were loads of the famous Vectrex stands with the "helmet" covers over them. While I was trying them out a certain Henny Huisman was presenting a quiz at the next stand .......
What I thought then:
- WTF a black & white only game, come'on my 2600 is full color already !
- I see only lines....WTF ?
- poor sound.
Yes, I had played Asteroids on arcade before, but I don't think I actually linked this to be the same technology....
Of all the points then only the poor sound is standing. Not sure if the hardware is just not capable or that the programmers were lazy on the sound but that should have been done a lot better.
Everything else is awesome about it. It really feels like having a mini vector arcade game on the table
Gonna bring it to the club tomorrow, let's see what the guys there think about it
Special thanks to Chris for picking it up/storing it and bringing it
