TheCurlyBard Posted Tuesday at 07:35 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 07:35 PM (edited) Round 9 - October 2024 - Vectrexagon Status: This is the current round being played in the Vectrex High Score Club. Join in and submit your scores! Closing date is 31 Oct 23:59 PST Current scores & ranking: Easy Carey85 323:58 Lord Innit 113:78 playvectrex 110:12 hcmffm 91:38 TheCurlyBard 65:32 Hard Carey85 98:32 playvectrex 67:08 Lord Innit 57:56 TheCurlyBard 50:36 hcmffm 49:08 Vectrexagon Vectrexagon is a very fast and frantic game developed by Andreas Gustafsson(†). Music by Yerzmyey/AY Riders. Simply navigate through the ever closing hexagons and survive as long as possible. Availability Packrat Video Games sells a nice physical version: https://www.packratvg.com/vsfrenzy.html Alternatively, you can name your price and download the rom here: https://sdwdevelopments.itch.io/vectrexagon Settings Both easy and hard mode! Please say which one your score is for, we'll have separate boards this month. Edited 3 hours ago by hcmffm 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Tuesday at 08:07 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 08:07 PM Well this is very different!! Feels a bit like a Llamasoft game, very cool music. I'm not sure, but I think we should just go hard mode on this one? 18.46 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted Tuesday at 08:38 PM Share Posted Tuesday at 08:38 PM I agree HARD mode is the best one to use. I'm pretty bad at this game though... Just tried 3 times on the original controller using the buttons. 49:08 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Tuesday at 09:17 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 09:17 PM Nice! I think I prefer the buttons too. Can't decide if it's actually using the analogue on the stick or not, but Vector Pilot has me hooked on button controls now. I'm using one of Victor's controllers, and buttons may be a bit too sensitive here. I'll try the og tomorrow, but my heads spinning right now 23:74 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted Wednesday at 04:16 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 04:16 PM I actually never played EASY until yesterday by accident and it was a lot more fun After playing both EASY and HARD, I can say that HARD mode runs a bit faster overall and pushes my reflexes beyond their limit. Because of this I'm getting high scores only when I'm getting lucky to have let go of the buttons at just the right spot because there's basically no time to course correct. Most of the time on HARD I'm getting low scores, and once in a long while I get a lucky streak. That 49:08 was a very lucky third try. EASY mode is just a bit easier to see when you need to let go, or correct your position... at least for me. Since we are playing for an entire month, and there's two modes... it might be worth it to allow scores to be submitted for both EASY and HARD modes, and make a leaderboard for both? I'd volunteer to keep the boards up to date if you wanted the help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Wednesday at 07:22 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 07:22 PM 3 hours ago, playvectrex said: I actually never played EASY until yesterday by accident and it was a lot more fun After playing both EASY and HARD, I can say that HARD mode runs a bit faster overall and pushes my reflexes beyond their limit. Because of this I'm getting high scores only when I'm getting lucky to have let go of the buttons at just the right spot because there's basically no time to course correct. Most of the time on HARD I'm getting low scores, and once in a long while I get a lucky streak. That 49:08 was a very lucky third try. EASY mode is just a bit easier to see when you need to let go, or correct your position... at least for me. Since we are playing for an entire month, and there's two modes... it might be worth it to allow scores to be submitted for both EASY and HARD modes, and make a leaderboard for both? I'd volunteer to keep the boards up to date if you wanted the help. Yeah OK, I was wondering if we could do both modes. I'll definitely be using easy to practice 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted Wednesday at 07:39 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 07:39 PM (edited) First go. 27:42 on Hard Mode using OG controller. Edit: 36:38 Edited Wednesday at 07:44 PM by Lord Innit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted Wednesday at 08:08 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 08:08 PM One for the Easy Mode, 81:00 At this point my eyes were struggling to keep up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Wednesday at 09:15 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 09:15 PM Some small improvements from me Easy 47.38 Hard 41.66 Atm the og controller feels better, oddly enough due to the less responsive buttons. The input scan rate seems really high, my modern controller seems too twitchy at this point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey85 Posted Wednesday at 09:16 PM Share Posted Wednesday at 09:16 PM Easy mode. I'm really good at Vectrexagon. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM Author Share Posted Wednesday at 09:20 PM @Carey85 yeah you really are! Well done Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey85 Posted Thursday at 12:35 AM Share Posted Thursday at 12:35 AM I've been playing Super Hexagon for well over a decade on my phone so I've had a lot of practice. I'll work on getting a solid hard score up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carey85 Posted Thursday at 02:14 AM Share Posted Thursday at 02:14 AM Not nearly as good at hard mode but I was also playing under the influence of adult beverages. I'll try again later. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted Thursday at 06:03 PM Share Posted Thursday at 06:03 PM Hard mode 49:08 Gonna be a fun month to see who gets second place. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted Thursday at 09:20 PM Share Posted Thursday at 09:20 PM It's heating up! Nice scores everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted Thursday at 09:36 PM Author Share Posted Thursday at 09:36 PM It's giving me motion sickness but I can't put it down. Some more small pb's Easy 65:32 Hard 50.36 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted Thursday at 11:17 PM Share Posted Thursday at 11:17 PM I turned off the sound and did better... don't think I'll get much more out of it though. Easy 91:38 Hard 57:56 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheCurlyBard Posted yesterday at 01:12 AM Author Share Posted yesterday at 01:12 AM Interesting tactic @playvectrex I find it helps signal something is about to change but maybe it is a bit panic inducing. I'll try anything. There's so many great games on the Vectrex, I think it's got best homebrew offerings 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted 17 hours ago Share Posted 17 hours ago I find I do better using the stick rather than the buttons on the OG controller. In the past I have played it with the sound right down but I think it works better for me with it on. Also I find I do better in a well lit room. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcmffm Posted 9 hours ago Share Posted 9 hours ago (edited) After completely missing out Space Frenzy, I better join in early. Vectrexagon is really an excellent game, developer Andreas Gustafsson and musician Yerzmyey did an excellent job. And great that it's still available both as physical cartrigde and dowload (donationware). Excellent scores, @Carey85, let's see how close we can get. 😉 I played on original hardware (console + controller) Easy: 77:94 Hard: 35:74 Edited 9 hours ago by hcmffm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+5-11under Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago 18 minutes ago, hcmffm said: After completely missing out Space Frenzy, I better join in early. Vectrexagon is really an excellent game, developer Andreas Gustafsson and musician Yerzmyey did an excellent job. And great that it's still available both as physical cartrigde and dowload (donationware). Just an FYI to anyone who didn't know, Andreas "Sdw" Gustafsson passed away about a year and a half ago: 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hcmffm Posted 8 hours ago Share Posted 8 hours ago Thank you for this very sad info, @5-11under. I'm sad and shocked - Andreas was 45 years old, only. 😲 Let's remember Andreas when playing his masterpiece Vectrexagon. 🕯 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Hard mode: 57:56 Thank you very much for this masterpiece Andreas, R.I.P. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
playvectrex Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Hah, nice... we are tied on Hard 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Innit Posted 7 hours ago Share Posted 7 hours ago Oh my! Indeed we are. I've also tied with my top Easy score........twice. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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