ComputerSpaceFan Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Just thought I'd pass this announcement along. There's a new homebrew for the Vectrex out called Bloxorz. Looks a lot like game I had for iOS whose name escapes me but I'm going to try this out because whatever that game was called it was fun. Here's where you can download the game. And here's a video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv4eBfQBzng 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ls650 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Thanks for sharing. More and more, I think the Vectrex is becoming a growing classic; some of the home brews are just terrific. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Would that iOS game happen to be Edge? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
desiv Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Nice that the author has a C compiler working for Vec games.... Might be seeing even some more Vectrex games on the horizon... Great looking game too... Thanx for the heads up.. desiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComputerSpaceFan Posted July 30, 2013 Author Share Posted July 30, 2013 Would that iOS game happen to be Edge? Nope I found it (finally) Nintaii Excellent game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akator Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 Nintaii I like the vector graphics more Many, many things would be better filtered through vector graphics. Just imagine how much prettier the world would be if these were vector graphics... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jess Ragan Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm not so convinced that everything would look better in vectors. Observe! I would have done the Jersey Shore cast (who hasn't?) but there's not enough orange on the Vectrex to do justice to Snooki. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mkiker2089 Posted July 30, 2013 Share Posted July 30, 2013 I'm not so convinced that everything would look better in vectors. Observe! I would have done the Jersey Shore cast (who hasn't?) but there's not enough orange on the Vectrex to do justice to Snooki. Use an overlay for the color. Have the cast in an orange block with green below, a layer of brown just above, then blue. It will be awesome. As for the game, there are many variations and I think the PS1 even had one on a disc of mini's that the magazine used to give out. It's a classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gartenzwerg Posted November 21, 2017 Share Posted November 21, 2017 I've started a Kickstarter for it, to implement the other levels: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/frankbuss/bloxorz-for-vectrex-pc-mac-ios-and-android 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gartenzwerg Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 BTW, I published the first version of the cartridge board as open source hardware, in case someone wants to build his/her own game as well, but doesn't want to back and wait for the Kickstarter: https://hackaday.io/project/28295-vectrex-cartridge Otherwise you can still back my project, it is already 61% funded. I think the collector box looks really nice: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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