RCM
07-25-2012, 12:26 AM
I might finally have to get an iCade for this. Who else is excited?
"In 1982 Smith Engineering released the Vectrex, a self-contained video game console that delivered cutting-edge vector based games to the masses. It was the first game console with a 3D peripheral. It was brilliant.
It was also released right before the video game crash of 1983, so the system that hit the market at $199.99 rapidly dropped to $150. Then $100. By late 1984 it was gone from the market completely. I know this because on May 1, 1984 I received one of these and every game that was available for it for my 11th birthday, and my mother got it all for under $100 from Toys 'R' Us.
My Vectrex was eventually borrowed by a friend of a friend who then shot himself in the head playing a game of 'Bet I Won't Shoot Myself in the Head' (he lost), and I could never figure out how to ask his grieving mother for my console back.
But I don't need it back anymore, thanks to Vectrex Regeneration, coming soon to the iPhone and iPad from Rantmedia Games.
The iPad is the perfect place for the Vectrex to live on. Its screen is about the right proportions, and with an iCade attached you're just a curly wire away from playing games like Star Trek in glorious black-and-white lines. Hopefully they'll be simulating the plastic color overlays that came with the games — oh yeah, this was one high tech machine.
Vectrex Regenerationis not only for those nostalgic for likely blood-spattered consoles lost. While the app will be released with all of the old games — more than 20 titles — free of charge, the loyal community of indie Vectrex developers will be supplying homebrewed games, available individually or through in app purchases.
What else? How about Game Center support? Multiplayer between two devices? Airplay to your Apple TV? I might faint.
The Vectrex is back, baby, and it sounds like it's going to be better than ever. If I ever get my hands on these Rantmedia folks they are going to get such a hugging.
Shit, I need to buy an iCade now."
SOURCE: http://kotaku.com/5928815/the-little-vector+based-console-that-couldnt-is-reborn-on-the-ipad
More info: http://www.vectrexregeneration.com/
"In 1982 Smith Engineering released the Vectrex, a self-contained video game console that delivered cutting-edge vector based games to the masses. It was the first game console with a 3D peripheral. It was brilliant.
It was also released right before the video game crash of 1983, so the system that hit the market at $199.99 rapidly dropped to $150. Then $100. By late 1984 it was gone from the market completely. I know this because on May 1, 1984 I received one of these and every game that was available for it for my 11th birthday, and my mother got it all for under $100 from Toys 'R' Us.
My Vectrex was eventually borrowed by a friend of a friend who then shot himself in the head playing a game of 'Bet I Won't Shoot Myself in the Head' (he lost), and I could never figure out how to ask his grieving mother for my console back.
But I don't need it back anymore, thanks to Vectrex Regeneration, coming soon to the iPhone and iPad from Rantmedia Games.
The iPad is the perfect place for the Vectrex to live on. Its screen is about the right proportions, and with an iCade attached you're just a curly wire away from playing games like Star Trek in glorious black-and-white lines. Hopefully they'll be simulating the plastic color overlays that came with the games — oh yeah, this was one high tech machine.
Vectrex Regenerationis not only for those nostalgic for likely blood-spattered consoles lost. While the app will be released with all of the old games — more than 20 titles — free of charge, the loyal community of indie Vectrex developers will be supplying homebrewed games, available individually or through in app purchases.
What else? How about Game Center support? Multiplayer between two devices? Airplay to your Apple TV? I might faint.
The Vectrex is back, baby, and it sounds like it's going to be better than ever. If I ever get my hands on these Rantmedia folks they are going to get such a hugging.
Shit, I need to buy an iCade now."
SOURCE: http://kotaku.com/5928815/the-little-vector+based-console-that-couldnt-is-reborn-on-the-ipad
More info: http://www.vectrexregeneration.com/