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>Kind of an odd choice for a license for the Vectrex, >due to the original needing color (somewhat) to let >the player know that the difficulty level has >increased, plus there was not only no voice synthesis >built into the Vectrex, but hardly any of it's games >has voice either. > >Anyway, for those who are not aware of the hugely >popular this arcade game was, it was one of the >earliest talking games ever, as your humanoid made his >way through a series of mazes, shooting robots and >dodging their fire. Touching ANYTHING will kill you, >whether it be a robot, one of their shots, a wall in >the maze, or Evil Otto, a giant ball of death that >comes after you if you take too long to get through a >maze. The game also had a unique scoring system, as >the player would always get the points no matter how a >robot was destroyed: if two robots walked into each >other, walked into a wall, shot one another, or got >silenced by Evil Otto, the player always got the >points. > >Well, as great as the original was, the Vectrex >version wasn't: first off, it moved a bit slow. >There's a collision detection problem where the robots >will walk halfway through a wall before they get >destroyed (uh huh). Evil Otto doesn't announce his >presence whenever he's going to appear (oh well, >neither did the Atari 2600 version, though), but not >only was a silly bounce sound added as he hopped >across the screen, but he was also made too easy to >avoid. > >Needless to say, the 2600 version was better than >this, which is a bit sad, especially since it had >several more game variations than this one did (in >regards to when you got extra lives, no Otto, >shootable Otto, etc.). Oh well.

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