The nostalgia with this as well, was hanging out at Arcades back in the day, and all your allowance and law mowing money would disappear in matter of hours lol.Something that kids today will never understand or experience.
Space Wars, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Tail gunner, Red Baron, Armor Attack, Rip Off!, Star Castle…so many cool games. I prefer vector graphics because the graphics are necessarily simple so the developers had to focus on the game play, which has to be top-notch to be a successful game.
Ironically, you can't show how unique these displays look in a video. You really have to see them in real life to appreciate how bright and crisp the displays are. I had an original Star Wars cab (and a lot of other arcades) from back when arcade operators were almost giving them away to clear out space. I paid £60 for it, in full working order, with almost no damage at all except some scratches on the side-art. Sold it on for £100. Would probably sell for around 20 times that today…
I realize this is an old video, but I just watched it – looking for retro vector graphics arcade games – but can you tell me what game is shown after asteroids deluxe? i thought it was maybe 4031 A.D. since that is what is at the top of the artwork shown, but I couldn't find a game by that name. What is it? Thanks in advance (if you see this)
Bit of trivia about Quantum (13:23): The game had an "interactive attract mode" – sort of a playable demo that let you try out a simple version of the game for about ten seconds (IIRC). The demo had no score and only one particle to capture, but it let you try out and learn how the "particle capture" mechanic worked (and how the trackball movement "felt") before putting in any quarters.It was an incredibly rare feature for arcade games, and didn't really re-appear until "shareware demos" emerged in the home PC gaming scene a decade or so later.
Even 40+ years later I don't think anything really beats vector games…… just the beautiful crispness of the graphics and the general aesthetic. Awesome!Some really odd ones here (that boxing one especially!) but the major ones of the era are still the classics to this day… The usual suspects Star Wars. Battlezone, Asteroids, Tempest.Black Widow and Space Duel were spectacular discoveries for me in the late 90s when MAME was released…Speed Freak could have been an all time classic if the gameplay and sensitivity had been worked on. Some of those beautiful shoot em ups I see are ones I never saw back in the day in Blackpool late 70s to mid 80s) … and the Atari F14 is brand new for me… Many thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Star Wars was so advanced for the time with realistic 3D and sounds, it still holds up today and I'm lucky enough to have the Arcade1Up Star Wars cabinet. It is still totally playable.
While most would consider these simple and basic to most kids growing up these days, to me there is an indescribable and irresistible charm to these old arcade vector games. My favorites are Star Trek S.O.S., Tempest, Space Fury, Tac-Scan, Star Wars, Space Duel and Major Havoc.
i realist the odds of this happening are effectively zero cuz who the hell owns an ossicoscope. but would be really cool if there were a vector revival. would be so interesting to see what people would come up with using modern computers.
Please someone help me find this game. It's like asteroids but you can fly around and the camera follows you. There's these big bases you can fly in to destroy?. You get a high score. Also I remember there being space police or something that come after you blow up a base? I cannot find it anywhere, and no one I ask knows what I'm talking about. It's like bosconian but black and white I'm pretty sure and the bases are big
Some neat history behind Major Havoc including that Stephen Spielberg played the incomplete version in Atari's labs and that The Who played the Space Duel prototype back when it was still too difficult for the average arcade-goer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yco6jwSLrAg
Is nobody gonna talk about the one with the N@zi symbols? And this is no joke, just go to 14:05.
You got some good finds on this! Vector Breakout? That was a thing?
The nostalgia with this as well, was hanging out at Arcades back in the day, and all your allowance and law mowing money would disappear in matter of hours lol.Something that kids today will never understand or experience.
Space Wars, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, Tail gunner, Red Baron, Armor Attack, Rip Off!, Star Castle…so many cool games. I prefer vector graphics because the graphics are necessarily simple so the developers had to focus on the game play, which has to be top-notch to be a successful game.
These are not in the order I discovered them lol
Ironically, you can't show how unique these displays look in a video. You really have to see them in real life to appreciate how bright and crisp the displays are. I had an original Star Wars cab (and a lot of other arcades) from back when arcade operators were almost giving them away to clear out space. I paid £60 for it, in full working order, with almost no damage at all except some scratches on the side-art. Sold it on for £100. Would probably sell for around 20 times that today…
I wished I could find a game stick with all this games or some other console that would have all this good ones not the Chinese copycats….
I came here looking for Battlezone and there it is (Chapter 7)! I used to love that game, it felt like it was 3D!
I realize this is an old video, but I just watched it – looking for retro vector graphics arcade games – but can you tell me what game is shown after asteroids deluxe? i thought it was maybe 4031 A.D. since that is what is at the top of the artwork shown, but I couldn't find a game by that name. What is it? Thanks in advance (if you see this)
Star trek and star wars game was my jam.
Sound booms out to end I thought my headphones were screwed thumbs down
Tempest is awesome
What’s the best rendering style? Vector, pixel, voxel, ray casting, or polygonal?
Bit of trivia about Quantum (13:23): The game had an "interactive attract mode" – sort of a playable demo that let you try out a simple version of the game for about ten seconds (IIRC). The demo had no score and only one particle to capture, but it let you try out and learn how the "particle capture" mechanic worked (and how the trackball movement "felt") before putting in any quarters.It was an incredibly rare feature for arcade games, and didn't really re-appear until "shareware demos" emerged in the home PC gaming scene a decade or so later.
Even 40+ years later I don't think anything really beats vector games…… just the beautiful crispness of the graphics and the general aesthetic. Awesome!Some really odd ones here (that boxing one especially!) but the major ones of the era are still the classics to this day… The usual suspects Star Wars. Battlezone, Asteroids, Tempest.Black Widow and Space Duel were spectacular discoveries for me in the late 90s when MAME was released…Speed Freak could have been an all time classic if the gameplay and sensitivity had been worked on. Some of those beautiful shoot em ups I see are ones I never saw back in the day in Blackpool late 70s to mid 80s) … and the Atari F14 is brand new for me… Many thanks for the trip down memory lane!
Star Wars was so advanced for the time with realistic 3D and sounds, it still holds up today and I'm lucky enough to have the Arcade1Up Star Wars cabinet. It is still totally playable.
It's a shame most of the footage is pixellated, which kind of ruins the point of vector graphics.
The game Lunar Battle is similar to Gravitar also.
The arcade game meteorites is similar to Asteroids and Asteroids Deluxe.
Could a console like the SNES do games like these using some varation of the way the vectors are calculated using stock hardware?
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While most would consider these simple and basic to most kids growing up these days, to me there is an indescribable and irresistible charm to these old arcade vector games. My favorites are Star Trek S.O.S., Tempest, Space Fury, Tac-Scan, Star Wars, Space Duel and Major Havoc.
How much are the systems worth I have one?
There are still very few arcade games that beat the experience of sit down Star Wars.
Could a vector display do flatshaded 3D if it were running on a powerful enough system?
What's the game shown briefly at 11:09?
i realist the odds of this happening are effectively zero cuz who the hell owns an ossicoscope. but would be really cool if there were a vector revival. would be so interesting to see what people would come up with using modern computers.
Is it possible to make 3d moving objects using vectors and multicolors
OMG Barrier is ROCK BAND!
tempest was coolest game ever different
Please someone help me find this game. It's like asteroids but you can fly around and the camera follows you. There's these big bases you can fly in to destroy?. You get a high score. Also I remember there being space police or something that come after you blow up a base? I cannot find it anywhere, and no one I ask knows what I'm talking about. It's like bosconian but black and white I'm pretty sure and the bases are big
WOW THANK YOU FOR HISTORICAN INFO.
The linked video stole your content: https://youtu.be/DDm0gVn2xAU
How did you get that lighting effect in Meteorites? I tried the rom, but it doesn't have that effect.
2:05 that transparency/filter on Astroids deluxe is great: For 1 second
Some neat history behind Major Havoc including that Stephen Spielberg played the incomplete version in Atari's labs and that The Who played the Space Duel prototype back when it was still too difficult for the average arcade-goer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yco6jwSLrAg
woa, these graphics are tubular!