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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.:)
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).
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.
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.
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.
For the clean sweep game, the manual says this: "Evil bank robbers have just blown your bank to smithereens. As bank president, you only have a vacuum 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 lights of the bank's corridors and gather the money through a blind maze."
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.
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.
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!
13:50 reminds me of salamander/life force for arcade/NES and even gradius on super NES. what i find amazing is why not a single vectrex game has weapon upgrades. did the system not have enough memory to program this change? they could have just used a code as well to allow ship "type 2" or player "type 2" who came with a different set of weapons
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
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
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.
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.
the betterversion you're talking about is the vecflash, it's a blank cartridge you connect to your pc through USB to upload games inside. Then the cart auto generates a onscreen menu on the vectrex. It was discontinued for the vecmulti that works with sd cards. Seach for richard hutchinson on google to see more of those...
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.
Why does it have six switches if only carries 32 games? Isn't five all it needs? What happens if you put in a combination that's no described on the box?
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
An old school friend had one of these machines and I used to love playing it when I went around to his. I often wonder if he's still got it as he seemed to have everything that was released (light pen etc) and it'll be worth a firtune now!
Wasn't there a movie back in the '80s where they flew in a chasm in space like in that game? I think it had a guy in a dog-costume and some talking robots too, or smth. :D Also, I think they fought with swords even though it was a space film. Pretty crazy movies back then.. I always thought it was called Zardoz but that seems to be a different movie. Some '80s-nut will probably remember what that was called.. One of my mates used to have it on VHS.
May I note, Pole Position ACTUALLY became an arcade game (if you didn't already know). It even had crappy speech that sounded like someone was talking through a toaster when it said "Prepare to Qualify." Also, the Vectrex version was made by Namco, same people who made the arcade version. I'm pretty sure pac-man may have been released for Vectrex, but no idea. (I do have it for Atari 2600 though, and it's fun.)
@ashens I believe that the bar at the top of the screen during the tour de france was an energy bar, your supposed to take breaks and properly regulate your pedaling to conserve energy, if you pedal too much, you become tired and fall.
I played (and died during) a lot of Scramble as a kid and I dont remember ever getting to meteors. I do remember the horrendously difficult sharp angle caves though. Maybe there's 2 versions of the game?
Had a Vectrex for my 13th Birthday(82) after annoying my mum for about a year about it!! I was a Mine Storm God (Secret level was a lie), hated Hyper Chase!! I don't know what happened to mine, but after watching this I think ill have to pick one up, just for Mine Storm, Oh my.. the nostalgia is sooo strong!
I replaced the horizontal self center spring and I thought I did it wrong because every my Mine Storm ship spun right with the joystick in the center. Apparently there are calibration screws inside the controller. The Vectrex is such an amazing system.
Even years after watching Ashens review the Vectrex I'm still really impressed with it. Sure, it couldn't do colour (not really), but it was still impressive. I wonder why they packaged the console with its own display though? I wonder if it's because they could keep costs down by limiting it to just white light, so it would be cheaper than maybe having to have a second TV to avoid inconveniencing others in the house, or maybe because standard TVs weren't really optimized to display the vector graphics? I could imagine the average TV set in the early 80's having a lot of ghosting from the rapid transition from bright white to no light. Or maybe both reasons are true?
A cassette is, according to Merriam-Webster, defined as a (usually) flat cartridge that can be easily loaded or unloaded. so a game cartridge can be called a cassette (in my language (Norwegian) a game cartridge is always called a spillkassett, so I had to nerdily look it up...).
Oh yeah, if I recall, Pole Position DID only have two gears, LO and HI, or something like that. I think I remember the "shifter" in the arcade version.
The bank heist Pac-Man game you were thinking about might actually be Lock n' Chase if I recall correctly, although I'm not sure if that was on the Vectrex, it was on the Intellivision for sure though!
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
(Too lazy to see if this was answered) Clean Sweep is indeed set in a bank. The game gets harder by reducing the vacuum's capacity. IIRC at the hardest level, you can only hold 8 dots at a time.
Ok, just by watching, I've figured it out: The "arm" buttons in Tour De France are to pick up water bottles that are on stands at various parts of the ride. This is why you were suddenly unable to pedal. You need water to regain stamina. Boom.
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.
The Vectrex actually seems surprisingly awesome. It could just be the industrial charm it gives off due to the color and the style of controller and such (what can I say, industrial looks have a strange charm to them that I adore, even if they still bore me in functionality most of the time), but that doesn't change the fact that it seems awesome somehow.
I made the mistake of complaining to my dad that the were getting boring and that I wanted new ones. He turned it upside down and said "there now the games are more interesting" and walked away.
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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 UA-cam. You get my like.
i know Im asking the wrong place but does any of you know a trick to log back into an Instagram account..?
I was dumb forgot the password. I love any help you can offer me!
@Colton Genesis Instablaster :)
@@christopherlennox7112 does that actually work?
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@@Macaaroni23 thanks
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
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.:)
Come on, in "tour de france" you need to grab water bootles to boost your stamina, i figured it out in about 2 mins!
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 ?
About hyper chase... Most sports cars from the era only had four gears.
"I've shattered my craft on a jaggedy line", one of the lesser-known Willie Nelson ballads.
THE
VECTREX
IS
AMAZING.
14:23, I think you mean "Hadouken".
I feel that Star Hawk is probably some sort of metaphor for the futility of life.
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.
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?
It's amazing what you could do with vector graphics, way better than early raster displays.
Star Hawk looks like the targeting system the X-Wings used during the actual trench run in Star Wars.
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.
Whenever I see the racing game played, I hear a voice singing "There's a junction coming, there's a junction coming."
"Let's see what things were like in the 80's, before I had to pay rent & things turned to shit."
"I've shattered my craft - on a jaggedy line!" - bravo!
That awkward moment when most of these look better than most of Steam Greenlight.
Delirus Innominata I know,right!?
0:17 Or...you know...if UA-cam decides to kill annotations.
For the clean sweep game, the manual says this: "Evil bank robbers have just blown your bank to smithereens. As bank president, you only have a vacuum 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 lights of the bank's corridors and gather the money through a blind maze."
A Vectrexcellent product
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
There was an old computer game I played when I was little called Star Goose. And it's clearly based on Star Hawk.
"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.
4:50 Still more FPS than nowadays game consoles can offer...
And better anti-aliasing.
Moron.
I love the graphics of that thing. Like a early 80s electronic music video.
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.
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.
Oh bollocks! No joke about mobile users being unable to click on embedded links?
+Zach Simmons what's the tweak?
Quite liked the look of most of the games that were tried out.
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!
I want a Vectrex so bad. I never cared for my retinas anyway
13:50 reminds me of salamander/life force for arcade/NES and even gradius on super NES. what i find amazing is why not a single vectrex game has weapon upgrades. did the system not have enough memory to program this change? they could have just used a code as well to allow ship "type 2" or player "type 2" who came with a different set of weapons
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.
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 !!
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
The intro to Hyperchase sounded like a cat walking across a piano.
Sounds like Liquid Filth to me
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
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.
Ashens kicking butt on Scramble. Awesome.
automatic vacuum cleaner? as opposed to the manual ones?
Google "Roomba"...
I cannot click the paper any more. :(
Y
:(.. . ..
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.
the betterversion you're talking about is the vecflash, it's a blank cartridge you connect to your pc through USB to upload games inside. Then the cart auto generates a onscreen menu on the vectrex. It was discontinued for the vecmulti that works with sd cards. Seach for richard hutchinson on google to see more of those...
The sound effects for Star Hawk were awesome w/ the cabinet/arcade version
Well worth a quarter
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.
Why does it have six switches if only carries 32 games? Isn't five all it needs? What happens if you put in a combination that's no described on the box?
always a joy to watch old videogames.
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
An old school friend had one of these machines and I used to love playing it when I went around to his. I often wonder if he's still got it as he seemed to have everything that was released (light pen etc) and it'll be worth a firtune now!
1982, yesterday, and forever ago.........
Wasn't there a movie back in the '80s where they flew in a chasm in space like in that game? I think it had a guy in a dog-costume and some talking robots too, or smth. :D Also, I think they fought with swords even though it was a space film. Pretty crazy movies back then.. I always thought it was called Zardoz but that seems to be a different movie. Some '80s-nut will probably remember what that was called.. One of my mates used to have it on VHS.
Pretty sure it was called War Beyond the Stars if I recall correctly.
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.
May I note, Pole Position ACTUALLY became an arcade game (if you didn't already know). It even had crappy speech that sounded like someone was talking through a toaster when it said "Prepare to Qualify." Also, the Vectrex version was made by Namco, same people who made the arcade version. I'm pretty sure pac-man may have been released for Vectrex, but no idea. (I do have it for Atari 2600 though, and it's fun.)
Thanks!
@ashens I believe that the bar at the top of the screen during the tour de france was an energy bar, your supposed to take breaks and properly regulate your pedaling to conserve energy, if you pedal too much, you become tired and fall.
I played (and died during) a lot of Scramble as a kid and I dont remember ever getting to meteors. I do remember the horrendously difficult sharp angle caves though. Maybe there's 2 versions of the game?
does it play bluray?
No.
Only if you have the 3D goggles with the rare Blu-ray color disk. Otherwise you're limited to Betamax.
Yes.
Can I watch Pornhub on it?
Had a Vectrex for my 13th Birthday(82) after annoying my mum for about a year about it!!
I was a Mine Storm God (Secret level was a lie), hated Hyper Chase!!
I don't know what happened to mine, but after watching this I think ill have to pick one up, just for Mine Storm, Oh my.. the nostalgia is sooo strong!
There really are a lot of cool games for the Vectrex, aren't there? This was pretty fun!
I wonder if you have to pace your pedaling on the bicycling game, and maybe manage the uphill parts in a specific way. Maybe I'm overthinking it.
I believe the bar at the top-left is your power and you have to manage the use of power according to that.
+DB Pooper You're probably not supposed to cycle going downhill.
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.
Probably gonna get a Vectrex and see if there is any of these cartridges. I don't mind the DIP switches.
I replaced the horizontal self center spring and I thought I did it wrong because every my Mine Storm ship spun right with the joystick in the center. Apparently there are calibration screws inside the controller. The Vectrex is such an amazing system.
must sleep, 10am..
oh hey new ashens video, his rambling can help me sleep
11:20 still better than FIFA
Scott Chiste I know right? the graphics are practically next-gen.
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
Even years after watching Ashens review the Vectrex I'm still really impressed with it. Sure, it couldn't do colour (not really), but it was still impressive.
I wonder why they packaged the console with its own display though? I wonder if it's because they could keep costs down by limiting it to just white light, so it would be cheaper than maybe having to have a second TV to avoid inconveniencing others in the house, or maybe because standard TVs weren't really optimized to display the vector graphics? I could imagine the average TV set in the early 80's having a lot of ghosting from the rapid transition from bright white to no light. Or maybe both reasons are true?
They included the display because they had to, this is a vector display monitor, not a TV. The picture is made in an entirely different way!
A cassette is, according to Merriam-Webster, defined as a (usually) flat cartridge that can be easily loaded or unloaded. so a game cartridge can be called a cassette (in my language (Norwegian) a game cartridge is always called a spillkassett, so I had to nerdily look it up...).
Oh yeah, if I recall, Pole Position DID only have two gears, LO and HI, or something like that. I think I remember the "shifter" in the arcade version.
Star Hawk looks like that one part in Star Wars where Luke goes thru the death star to explode it
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 !
The bank heist Pac-Man game you were thinking about might actually be Lock n' Chase if I recall correctly, although I'm not sure if that was on the Vectrex, it was on the Intellivision for sure though!
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
Oh man, I loved my Vectrex. Wish I took care of it and kept it.
(Too lazy to see if this was answered) Clean Sweep is indeed set in a bank. The game gets harder by reducing the vacuum's capacity. IIRC at the hardest level, you can only hold 8 dots at a time.
U need to get the overlays bro
Thanks for finally reviewing this. Review the rest of the retro box of delights in your weekly reviews!
that tour de france game looks like it would be relaxing to play in a dark room
What would UA-cam be without Ashens?
I have to admit the Tour de France game looked pretty impressive to me. It manages to look very good using a minimal of graphics.
The vectrex in 1982 apparently thought of the design of the first Jedi starfighters
looking at hyperchase is that the modern batmobile viewed from the back ?
Scramble reminds me a lot of an Atari XL/XE game I used to play called Tail of Beta Lyrae.
I enjoyed your pronunciation of 'Lapland', you made it sound like an actual country!
Ok, just by watching, I've figured it out: The "arm" buttons in Tour De France are to pick up water bottles that are on stands at various parts of the ride. This is why you were suddenly unable to pedal. You need water to regain stamina. Boom.
Loved the rent quote and many others...nice one
Well that captured almost all the excitement of an actual football match
I had that Hulk figure, oh the memories..
Thanks for the AMA on the Narwhal Bacon!
it sounds like they didn't flip the settings on the cover to match the lsb being on the left of the dip switches
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.
Is Thursday for me to! 9 years later!
The Vectrex actually seems surprisingly awesome. It could just be the industrial charm it gives off due to the color and the style of controller and such (what can I say, industrial looks have a strange charm to them that I adore, even if they still bore me in functionality most of the time), but that doesn't change the fact that it seems awesome somehow.
Vectrex game overlays came with the controls labelled on them usually :)
I made the mistake of complaining to my dad that the were getting boring and that I wanted new ones. He turned it upside down and said "there now the games are more interesting" and walked away.
I'd love to have that Hulk! And that Vectrex! And that cassette!