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Date Posted: 09:14:49 11/17/99 Wed
Author: pblock
Subject: New Vectrex Games

I've been thinking about the new games being made for Vectrex. Not to knock the fine work of PCJohn et al, but basically what they're doing is converting games to the Vectrex

Space Invaders, Discs of Tron, Star Wars, Phoenix, Q*Bert, etc,etc,etc.

While this is all well and good, especially for you luck sobs who actually OWN a Vectrex, but just converting popular arcade games seems to lack imagination somehow.

Vector graphics are very unique and the effects possible are very different from what raster, or even polygon can do.

So, a good question is, what would be a good game to do on a Vectrex.

By this I'm not looking for a title, but an idea. Some effect that would work in vector, but not in other graphics styles.

This is a holy grail for Vectrex programmers: something original, innovative and take advantage of features that make vector graphic unique.

There is a possibily this may not exist, but I have reason to believe it does, we just need to find it.

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[> Re: New Vectrex Games -- BaronVR, 07:57:14 11/18/99 Thu

Well, being an artist (but not a programmer) I do understand that creative minds are sometimes at the mercy of their muse. I doubt that any of the current programmers do what they do for money/popularity/etc. It's probably more of a personal thing they do for themselves rather than popular demand, and who can question why someone is inspired in one direction or another...

Also, let's not forget that porting games or loosely basing them is tradition with most systems. Ported games were initially the reason to get excited over many classic systems like the 2600 and Colecovision. And even the best programmers come up with some ideas that work and others that don't. Considering how infrequent new games are, then porting is a great way to insure that the new games are winners. Great ideas are sometimes hard to come by...

baronvr


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[> Re: New Vectrex Games -- Mr. Maddog, 17:43:06 12/15/99 Wed

Yeah, why can't we make games that fully utilize the nature of the XY monitor of the Vectrex? I'm sure it's nice that someone would make a Pac-Man clone...but wouldn't even a Battlezone clone be even nicer. ;)

People seem to forget that the Vectrex display is nothing like the traditional raster displays they're used to. I see it as lines of light being not only drawn but manupulated through three dimensions. Yes I said 3D, simple 3D math like "shrinking" and "streching" lines can be applied to the Vectrex.

If I can get some of my other planned projects out of the way, I wouldn't mind having a crack at making a Vectrex game. :)


Eric Noss
a.k.a
Mr. Maddog


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