man vectrex games are so beautiful. I love vector based graphics. sure, some games emulate it these days, but the original ones, just had this GLOW.
Page 4 Notes on 100 Greatest VG Book
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 On 11/19/2014 at 03:59 PM by KnightDriver See More From This User » |
That's 100 greatest console video games between the years 1977-1987. I struggle to figure out how to shorten this Brett Weiss book's title and still convey its meaning. Anyway, more multimedia notes!
Fortress of Narzod (why isn't that the name of a metal band already?) for the Vectrex. What does this game look and play like? I want to know.
Pretty cool. Got to watch rebounding shots or end up shooting yourself.
I thought it was interesting that the devs for Freeway on Atari 2600 put in traffic patterns based on real highways. You can toggle between 8 of them such as: Bayshore Freeway, San Fran, and The Beltway, Washington, D.C. . I never noticed when I played it. Now I want to go play it again and see how each are different.
Frenzy for Colecovision, the sequel to Berzerk. I want to see gameplay. Why not a Classic Game Room review instead? Even better!
All this old school gaming got me thinking about when I bought my very first video game with my own money. I never did as a teenager because I was too busy buying photography equipment and scfi/fantasy books with my lawn mowing money; so, it must've been in the mid 90's when I finally had a little spending money. It might have been a Sega Genesis and Monopoly or Risk, which I played a lot with my friend Mark at the time.
Oo! And speaking of Colecovision, I just saw this Colecovision Flashback review by Gamester81 on youtube. I listen to him on the AllGenGamers podcast. Let's see what he says about the system I just bought.
Oh cool, he liked it except for the fact you can't use an original Colecovision controller on it. I don't care about that.
I should mention that Brett Weiss' book does seem to favor the Colecovision a little bit. The reason is that Brett mentioned it was the first system he bought as a kid, putting half the money down to get it as a Christmas gift along with the game Ladybug. I'll do the numbers breaking down how many games he chose for each system when I finish the book though to see if this is true or not, but so far he does seem to emphasize Colecovision and the later Atari consoles 5200 and 7800.
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