Vectrex Multi-Cart: Random Games | Ashens
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- Gaming excitement courtesy of "Vectrom", the DIP-switch-tastic 32-games-in-one Vectrex cartridge. After figuring out the switch settings - since they're listed backwards on the box - I was free to relive more of my vector-based memories from nearly 30 years ago...
Turns out the football game is rubbish. Hyperchase isn't as good as I remember as the opposing cars move so jerkily. Star Hawk is barely a game at all - more like a teenager's first proof of concept mobile phone game. But on the plus side Pole Position was OK, the Pac-Man rip-off was better than I remembered and Scramble is still acebest. Plus I got to see a possibly unfinished cycling game, WHICH WAS NICE.
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The Vectrex, its years ahead of all Popstations
***** The average funding of a POPstation is estimated at $1,000.
"Before I had to pay rent and everything turned to SHIIIT". Best quote I've heard in TH-cam. You get my like.
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the animation are actually quite impressive for a 1982 game console
Arkadi Gavin indeed, though with the "tour de france" game you can see the drawback of vector screens: more lines = less refresh rate.
It's actually much more impressive in person. Everything is crystal clear, it looks nothing like the real deal on a PC monitor.
Is
Come on, in "tour de france" you need to grab water bootles to boost your stamina, i figured it out in about 2 mins!
THE
VECTREX
IS
AMAZING.
"I've shattered my craft on a jaggedy line", one of the lesser-known Willie Nelson ballads.
1:42 - Actually, they've "just" managed to stick the DIP switch _label_ upside down. If you hold the cartridge so that "Vectrex" is the right way up, and interpret the _black_ mark on the label as the switch (which is the norm), the box label is correct. It's just the plate around the switches that is upside down (reversing the order and also reversing "on" and "off" - i.e., "Berzerk" is supposed to be 000011).
Of course, you can interpret it the other way around, but in that case you'd also have to say that the "32 Game Vectrex" text on the cartridge is upside down, and that they've printed the box label as a negative (with the switches represented by white).
+RFC3514 Those dip switches are preprinted with the pin numbers on top. I think it would be more accurate to say they soldered it on the wrong way.
Gigs Taggart - The switches are in the correct position (relative to the cartridge), only the label is upside down.
Makes sense...
I'm still waiting for the 24 hour Ashens Vectrex scramble livestream.
livestream*
vectrex*
hau doo eye spelin ?
Wow. I remember this game. My uncle had one. Hours and hours. One of the best games ever made. Why you ask? Because as long as you could keep focus and was a good player, you could keep playing for a week or more. And like you said. The joystick is high-tech and the best I ever touched. No play, wiggle or mailfunction after years of use. And games that never stopped. The only way to end the game is to die. Stay alive and be king of the game. Now you try to end a game to win it. Back then you tried to keep playing for the win... I remember my uncle tried to see what was after level 99 in a game. Just more of level 99 but faster. This game is like real life. Play till you die. And my uncle had gels to put infront of the screen and give color to the white lines. That improves the sensation too.:)
About hyper chase... Most sports cars from the era only had four gears.
I feel that Star Hawk is probably some sort of metaphor for the futility of life.
It's amazing what you could do with vector graphics, way better than early raster displays.
"Before I had to pay rent and everything went to shit" I don't know WHY I laughed so hard at that. But I did.
A Vectrexcellent product
The Vector graphic style of the Vectrex may have inspired the art style of the PS1 game Vib-Ribbon.
+RowdySquid exactly my thoughts
Good call
Actually, while it was inspired by vector line displays, it was inspired by ocillioscopes.
That isn't gonna stop me from wanting a homebrew version of Vib-Ribbon. If someone made a Doom map viewer it's possible.
Doom map viewer...? What's that? (I know what Doom is...just not the map viewer part)
+James Laforme It's the map you can bring up to check where you are. Doom's map is very similar to Vectrex graphics.
Star Hawk looks like the targeting system the X-Wings used during the actual trench run in Star Wars.
Am I the only one who thinks this would be super scary to play in the dark, by yourself and not recording? All the loud noises and stuff...I'd shit my pants.
Lel
5 keks
actually i find it pretty cool in a nice kinda weird enviroment where you only hear weird sounds in the dark
and a really bright screen......
i find it more....uh..... relaxing?
Scramble was one of my favourites back in the day. There was a very similar game called Sidewinder (where you flew a helicopter).
That Pacman clone was way better than the Atari 2600 version. I would play it now (in the right mood). The MS Pacman for 2600 was a huge improvement.
That awkward moment when most of these look better than most of Steam Greenlight.
Delirus Innominata I know,right!?
14:23, I think you mean "Hadouken".
"Let's see what things were like in the 80's, before I had to pay rent & things turned to shit."
I'm glad to see this video finally came out, I've been waiting patiently and I'm so happy to finally see it. Next is the video you promised during the third video of the contest about the fan created games based on you compilation. Haha
When I type in "Ashens" in the search bar, I do it to the beat of his opening tune.
A-S, H-E, N-S
i dad used to play this when he got home from NASA he loved it because it reminded him of his work
Cool story bro.
always a joy to watch old videogames.
Seeing a Vectrex is pretty awesome, thanks for the video. Until I saw your last video I've never heard of one and it was cool seeing the other games.
The sound effects for Star Hawk were awesome w/ the cabinet/arcade version
Well worth a quarter
I love the graphics of that thing. Like a early 80s electronic music video.
I had a vectrex! :) I had this game with a guy that shouted "darnit"
LOL! Sorry, I laugh at the stupidest things. But that's just funny to me
Yes "spike" I figured it out.
Spike. "Help! Spike Oh no! Molly!" ;-)
He talked about that in the last vectrex video
The intro to Hyperchase sounded like a cat walking across a piano.
Sounds like Liquid Filth to me
Quite liked the look of most of the games that were tried out.
Ashens kicking butt on Scramble. Awesome.
i loved my vetrex, it was state of the art and scramble was my favorite game that i recall. watching you play brought me back ty ty
Thanks for finally reviewing this. Review the rest of the retro box of delights in your weekly reviews!
Loved the rent quote and many others...nice one
I want a Vectrex so bad. I never cared for my retinas anyway
"Kill em!...oh"
"This is not Road Rash."
Yay, my weekly Ashens fix.
Thanks for the AMA on the Narwhal Bacon!
must sleep, 10am..
oh hey new ashens video, his rambling can help me sleep
Whenever I see the racing game played, I hear a voice singing "There's a junction coming, there's a junction coming."
FINALLY! the vectrex review u did was the 1st video i ever favorited, and when u said u were gonna get a multi cart, i got really exited. at laast, the video ive been wating for! yay!!!!!
Good old Scramble. In the Gradius game on the GBA there is this bit in the last level that is a definite throwback to Scramble, complete with missiles shooting at you from the ground and meteors flying straight at you. That is also the same game that lists Scramble in the Gradius canon during the intro, just in case anyone cared.
1982, yesterday, and forever ago.........
Shoryuken is a flying uppercut, the Hadoken is technically a two handed punch, the difference being it shoots forwards engulfed in flames.
WORMS was incredible!
That is a glorious sentiment, by Vectron's kindly claw!
It's really strange, but I always watch ashens before i go
to bed. It's weird because I get really tired to the point I don't want to hold my phone. Lol thanks ashens for being my nyquil
Same
do you also drop your phone on your head when you fall asleep and wake yourself up, or am I the only special one.
Fin H i once fell asleep watching a video and my arm stayed in the position if I was watching a video
Skuplia asmr?
Skuplia meeeee to !!
Keep doing these!
HE UPLOADED IT! YES!
There was an old computer game I played when I was little called Star Goose. And it's clearly based on Star Hawk.
Finally! I've been waiting for this.
You beautiful man, I was waiting for you to do more Vectrex games!!!
"I've shattered my craft - on a jaggedy line!" - bravo!
11:20 still better than FIFA
Scott Chiste I know right? the graphics are practically next-gen.
Well that captured almost all the excitement of an actual football match
Bloody hell, that cart took a while to turn up!
Great video. Really took me back lol
You're completely right about the plot to Clean Sweep.
In fact, here is the plot from the back of the box:
"Evil bank robbers have just blown your bank to smithereens. As bank manager, you have only a vacuum cleaner available to recover the money strewn among the rubble before the thieves destroy you! The thieves get increasingly anxious, but for added challenge, turn off the bank corridor lights and gather the money through a blind maze."
You press 2, then 4 on title screen to do that.
Clean Sweep was actually sponsored by a liquor company called Mr.Boston, and thus is an extremly rare game. The game actually about a bank that has it's money scattered on the floor, and you have to suck up money and put it back in the vault.
0:17 Or...you know...if TH-cam decides to kill annotations.
An treasure to watch of game review.
YEAH!! ashens :D release more stuffs :D i kind of miss you :D
that tour de france game looks like it would be relaxing to play in a dark room
Best ending to a video ever.
Watching this takes me back to the early 80s arcades. I expected to see something like Tempest in here, to be honest. I think that was a vector graphics machine but I'm not absolutely sure.
These games have amazing visuals, even past 30 years.
awesome Ashen
Looks way better then I'd expect.
You, sir, are brilliant.
What would TH-cam be without Ashens?
I like how old games are basically just GET A BEST SCORE THAT'S IT.
by the way, the 3d effect is not by 'generating hallucinations'; it uses the same idea as 3d shutter glasses, but instead of lcd (1982) it would use a spinning disk that would cover one eye while passing different color filters over the other eye
Oh man, I loved my Vectrex. Wish I took care of it and kept it.
Ah, the days when old video game cartridges were referred to as "tapes" and "cassettes"...
I haven't had the pleasure of playing a Vectrex until quite recently, but I will say I think it looks pretty darn impressive for its time.
Wonderful! I have been waiting for this ever since your Vectrex review. You do realise you could have blamed the wait all on the French.
loved the click here lol
When the Vectrex is presented all should rise.
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The vertical line shows your stamina on the bike game, the trick is to not allow that to shrink by mashing on the buttons (sprinting) too fast, but not allow the peloton catch up.
Oh bollocks! No joke about mobile users being unable to click on embedded links?
I have a jailbreak tweak so I can :D
+Zach Simmons what's the tweak?
Yeaaaaaaaah! I've been looking forward to this for a long time. and it turned out to be excellent. Jolly!
I like the sort of Duran Duran mashup in the White lines (go away) and Relax (don't do it.) lines Good stuff.
oh yes, ive been waiting for this!
i remember playing Scramble on a Vic 20 LOL ';-)
There really are a lot of cool games for the Vectrex, aren't there? This was pretty fun!
must sleep... its 1am...OH a new Ashens video, ill stay a little longer.
Scramble reminds me a lot of an Atari XL/XE game I used to play called Tail of Beta Lyrae.
I couldn't even tell you how many times I've watched this video but I only just now, 6 years later, got the "white lines, don't do it" joke.
That soccer game is awesome. The pole position game is sick tooo. This console was really awesome for its time. The vector graphics really lend itself to some games more than others
4:50 Still more FPS than nowadays game consoles can offer...
And better anti-aliasing.
Moron.
Nice review of the multi cart .
you are a hero! I myself enjoy Ashens and Classic Game Room with the mighty Mark ;)
1983? This machine is amazing!
A very happy birthday to you.
Ah la Vectrex, mes débuts dans le jeu vidéo, c'était formidable à l'époque, j'avais 7-8 ans, une console vectorielle, la seule de tous les temps !
I wasn't even alive when this came out XD It does look like it would have been something great at the time though. I can see glimmers of brilliance in some of the game. Just simple and intuitive gameplay mixed with smooth vector graphics. The thing would have all the processing power of a few modern scientific calculators networked together I imagine.
I had that Hulk figure, oh the memories..
Is Thursday for me to! 9 years later!
Vectrex was amazing back in the day. It was doing 3D before it was technically possible, and I actually really loved the monochrome display. Everything was so smooth and easy on the eyes, I totally understood why the TV was included. Too bad it didn't catch on, it was a bit too try hardy I think, but still, these Vectrex videos really make me nostalgic of my rich neighbor friend who not only had one of these, had a projector wall tv.(Duck Hunt worked on it :) )
I enjoyed your pronunciation of 'Lapland', you made it sound like an actual country!