Post by VectorX on Aug 28, 2013 13:38:27 GMT -5
Since we're now on a new page, here's all the links to date! Just note that with whatever updates this thread has, only the first page links will be updated though.
AAE--vector game emulator!
www.aaarpinball.com/index.htm--has Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back and Asteroids Deluxe, along with many pictures, restoration info, other non-vector and pinball games
allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of_26.html--this blog dives into a lot of Cinematronics history and info, including the vector Scramble pinball game.
Andy's arcade site--lotta vector games, including bootlegs (shame shame!)
Arcade Museum--formerly the Killer List of Video Games, having all wide-released vector coin-ops and many others
Asteroid project--guy puts several games/MAME-like machine into an "asteroid"
Asteroids project 2--totally different one in regards to a guy bringing back a non-working Asteroids machine from the dead. VERY lengthy though! (He also has a page for Star Trek as well.)
Atari Times (Atari and the Vectrex and local expos with vector coin-op features I did, along with reviews of 2600 Asteroids and Gravitar, along with reviews of several of Atari's vector arcade games)
Balazs, Martin mitglied.multimania.de/vectrex/ (Vectrex demo; Danish?)
Blazin'Games vectrex.playntradeonline.com/ (Vectrex homebrews, multicart)
Borrmann, Michael www.borrmann.in/ (Vectrex homebrews)
www.braidarcave.com/--Member braido's home arcade, with several vector games
Centuri.net--Aztarac arcade vector coin-op (plus other Centuri games)
Chevassu, Frank parabellum.pagesperso-orange.fr/bin/ParaJVE/ParaJVE.html?version=070413 (ParaJVE Vectrex emulator)
Chrome Atari--see Vector-like games below to play several Atari vector classics
Crozza Remakes--guy did remakes of Lunar Lander and Asteroids
www.cinemarcade.com/gametime.html--has pages (and at times, reviews) of Black Widow, Quantum, Cosmic Chasm, Major Havoc, Aztarac, Gravitar, Solar Quest, Space Fury, and Tac/Scan
Cinematronics--"unofficial Cinematronics page", having history, schematics, etc. of their vector games
Cinematronics.org--different site than the above, having pages on only two games, but history from Dan Sunday and Tim Skelly, along with two board projects and more the guy's working on
Classic Game Creations www.classicgamecreations.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
Cole, Charlie www.youtube.com/user/chipos81 (Vectrex tinkerings)
Coogan, Dan www.cooganphoto.com/gravitar/ (Gravitar site/current world record holder of the game)
Cowgill, Clay www.multigame.com/ (Vectrex Moon Lander, PlayStation to Vectrex adapter)
Digital Press (reviews of several Vectrex/vector arcade games)
Dondzila, John (see Classic Game Creations)
www.dreamcodex.com/chirality.php (Chirality vector games; unique and start off simple, but get difficult just as quickly!)
First (?) vector drawing ever? This article details possibly the very first vector drawing on a multi-million dollar computer back in the 1950s.
FURY furyunlimited.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
emdkay.net--these guys make miniature reproductions of many arcade games, although only four inches tall! Vector games they do include, Star Wars, Tempest, and Lunar Lander
www.gametronik.com/site/emulation/vectrex/--Vectrex and Cinematronics downloads of all kinds can be found here
Gary's gaming blog--has several unfinished game demo ideas for the Vectrex
Gauze's Vectrex site--unfinished Custer's Revenge and Reactor clones
Good Deal Games www.gooddealgames.com/ (VecSports Boxing)
Habot, Ronen vgcollect.freehosting.net/myvectrex.htm (Vectrex homebrewer, hardware)
Hally, Mike interview (guy behind Star Wars and Gravitar)
Herbert, Alex--see below
Herbs64 www.herbs64.com/ (Vectrex homebrewer--Alex Herbert)
History of Computing--has several vector arcade games, as well as the Vectrex.
home.comcast.net/~mtpacifico/index.htm--guy has Space Duel, Star Wars, Asteroids Deluxe and Battlezone, along with various other games and such
www.ionpool.net/--tons of links involving vector games, including Demon, QB-3, War of the Worlds, Topgunner
jeffspega.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tron-and-robotron-deleted-vectrex-story.html--guy's blog about buying a VIC-20 computer, but bought a Vectrex instead
John's Arcade--guy has Tempest, Black Widow, and Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back. His YouTube page is here, along with his home page, Twitter and podcast
www.twitchasylum.com/jsvecx/--JSVecX, an online Vectrex emulator (no sound though, but several homebrews and original GCE games)
Krumlinde, Ville www.emix8.org/ (Vectrex Thrust homebrew)
LaserMAME--largest MAME playing in the world!
Madtronix www.madtronix.com/html/vectrex.html (various Vectrex projects)
Mager, Kurt magesfolly.net/ (Star Hawk 2 [Note: the site only works on Internet Explorer, Opera Mobile and some version of FireFox])
Minion Software--(remake of Atari vector Star Wars game; unfortunately site is gone, but it can be downloaded elsewhere)
www.mikesarcade.com/arcade/--has arcade monitor schematics and other vector-related stuff
Morgan, Travis www.travisjmorgan.com www.youtube.com/user/morgantj (Vectrex Spike song)
Norbert's Emulators--Atari 800 Asteroids emulator
Outerworld Arcade--has pages for non-vector, along with Rip Off and Armor Attack, plus schematics and repairs and such
Pinball rebel--local Houston guy, but he has vector games
Recycled Gamer recycledgamer.com/ (SNES, Genesis and other controllers converted to work with the Vectrex)
RetroZone www.retrousb.com/index.php (USB adapters for Vectrex controllers to use on computers)
Retrogaming Roundup--this podcast is in regards to their top 10 arcade vector games!
Retro video gamer site with several Vectrex reviews, all by our own TrekMD
Revival Studios www.revival-studios.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
The Rise and Fall of Vector games Good Deal Games article (part 1 only)
www.rotheblog.com/ has quite a few vector pages, including an entire one devoted to Atari Star Wars links, several vector games made it on his 15 most valuable classic arcade games page, there's a page for Quantum reproduction artwork, a few vector games made it (Star Castle, Red Baron) on his arcade artwork page, and you'll find a few other vector mentions (Star Castle, Red Baron, Tempest) in his categories page; whew!
Rudy the Rud--(Vectrex cab, although site is now gone)
Sega G-80 Multigame--Clay Cowgill's board for playing all Sega vector games
Siewers, Dan kokosplace.50webs.com (Vectrex homebrewer, various hardware/projects)
de Smet, Mark maxwell.fief.org/projects.html (Vectrex homebrewer/projects)
solarfox.triluminary.net/arc_main.php--guy has Space Wars and Space Duel, among other raster games
Spike's Big Vectrex Page--although it hasn't been updated in years, there's plenty of Vectrex stuff here
Stage Select (database of Vectrex, vector coin-op, and vector-like games with pics, reviews and more)
www.stickycarpet.com/pinx/main.html--guy has Asteroids and Black Widow pages, along with repair schematics and the like
Swift Stitch official web site (unique "escape" puzzle/action game)
www.system16.com/--entire pages of Atari and Sega vector games
Tardis remakes--many vector games have been remade, such as Omega Race (twice!), Rip Off, Zektor, Space Fury, Star Castle, Arcadia (originally raster) AND Black Widow!
Team Y nunoleiria.wordpress.com (Mine Storm, Spike and Fortress of Narzod on Commodore 64)
Temped--Tempest editor so you can create your own levels, change colors and such, etc.
The Blanks' www.youtube.com/user/BlanksEnterprises, theblanks.com/ (used Vectrex sounds for their music)
Thieves--Rip Off clone for Windows, Irix and Linux systems
Time photo essay--Founding fathers of video games article, having people involved with Black Widow, Asteroids, Major Havoc, etc.
Tomczak, Sebastian www.blogger.com/profile/12712567577323498804, www.youtube.com/user/littlescale (Vectrex projects)
Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated www.trsi.de (Spike, Fortress of Narzod and Mine Storm for C-64)
Tuts, Kristof interview
Tutstronix www.kristofsnewvectrexgames.comli.com/index.htm (Vector Pilot and Vectrexians)
Upsidedown Games (Space Junk and other vector-like app games)
Urbancik, Pavel vectex.itherm.cz/ (Raster Vectrex replacement in works)
Vector-like games--online and/or downloadable games you can play, such as games at Chrome Atari (versions here of Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone and Tempest), Home Star Runner vector-like game, Scrxxx Scramble (Scramble vector remake), Space Rubbish (interesting turn on Asteroids), Tank Hunter (think Battlezone, just with a bunch of themed missions [at least 19] and power-ups and such, which I also gave it a 9 out of 10 in a review), Terry the Turtle Vektor (remake for the Spectrum ZX, but done in vector), Vector Conflict: The Siege, Vector Runner (kind of like the second area of the Star Wars arcade vector game, just you're on the surface of the Death Star in a vehicle; you collect power-ups and dodge obstacles), Vector Stunt (race along like with S. T. U. N. Runner, get points for doing stunts), the Vector TD games ("tower defense" games of Vector TD, Vector TD 2, and Vector TDX)
Vector VGA--wow! Company has this technology to convert raster to vector, along with monitors compatible with many Atari vector coin-ops!
Vectorgeddon game
www.vectorlist.org/--forums in regards to coin-op vector game questions and repair.
VectorLocusts--does someone have a working link to download this game with?
Vector 2600 hacks--hacked versions of various 2600 games can be found in this link on Atari Age.
Vector Tract game
Vectorzoa vectorzoa.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
Vectrex capacitor kit info (/for sale!)
Vectrex Crossword puzzle
Vectrex database
Vectrex debuzz kit info (/for sale)
www.vectrex.de/--Helmut Muller's Vectrex site (German)
Vectrex downloads--sure, you can download Vectrex ROMs on several sites, but this is at the Internet Archive where a crapload of them are in one place
Vectrex Facebook group in regards to high scores and the like.
Vectrex overlays--scanned and can be downloaded
Vectrex PreAmp Buzz Reduction wiki
Vectrex Regeneration--the Vectrex app, for iPads and iPhones
Vectrex tech wiki
Vecx--Vectrex emulator for the Android
My Vectrex wiki, currently having nearly 200 articles.
VectrexMad! Productions www.vectrex.co.uk/ (Vectrex hardware, info and Vectrex Vec-Cab blog)
Vexel Games site, which has links to many other accounts of theirs (Digg, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), as they are nearing completion of their Trace Vector game
Vidiot Arcade--guy owns an Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Omega Race, Red Baron and Tempest, along with other games/pinballs, plus some other vector games in his past games page
Warp demo videos--videos for the upcoming vector game for the iPad and the like
XtremeBeam--vector-like game apps for your iPad. Go to their home page or Twitter account
www.zektor.com/zvg/index.html--Zektor hardware for running vector games on any vector monitor (been sold out for years though)
AAE--vector game emulator!
www.aaarpinball.com/index.htm--has Star Wars/Empire Strikes Back and Asteroids Deluxe, along with many pictures, restoration info, other non-vector and pinball games
allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com/2012/11/the-ultimate-so-far-history-of_26.html--this blog dives into a lot of Cinematronics history and info, including the vector Scramble pinball game.
Andy's arcade site--lotta vector games, including bootlegs (shame shame!)
Arcade Museum--formerly the Killer List of Video Games, having all wide-released vector coin-ops and many others
Asteroid project--guy puts several games/MAME-like machine into an "asteroid"
Asteroids project 2--totally different one in regards to a guy bringing back a non-working Asteroids machine from the dead. VERY lengthy though! (He also has a page for Star Trek as well.)
Atari Times (Atari and the Vectrex and local expos with vector coin-op features I did, along with reviews of 2600 Asteroids and Gravitar, along with reviews of several of Atari's vector arcade games)
Balazs, Martin mitglied.multimania.de/vectrex/ (Vectrex demo; Danish?)
Blazin'Games vectrex.playntradeonline.com/ (Vectrex homebrews, multicart)
Borrmann, Michael www.borrmann.in/ (Vectrex homebrews)
www.braidarcave.com/--Member braido's home arcade, with several vector games
Centuri.net--Aztarac arcade vector coin-op (plus other Centuri games)
Chevassu, Frank parabellum.pagesperso-orange.fr/bin/ParaJVE/ParaJVE.html?version=070413 (ParaJVE Vectrex emulator)
Chrome Atari--see Vector-like games below to play several Atari vector classics
Crozza Remakes--guy did remakes of Lunar Lander and Asteroids
www.cinemarcade.com/gametime.html--has pages (and at times, reviews) of Black Widow, Quantum, Cosmic Chasm, Major Havoc, Aztarac, Gravitar, Solar Quest, Space Fury, and Tac/Scan
Cinematronics--"unofficial Cinematronics page", having history, schematics, etc. of their vector games
Cinematronics.org--different site than the above, having pages on only two games, but history from Dan Sunday and Tim Skelly, along with two board projects and more the guy's working on
Classic Game Creations www.classicgamecreations.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
Cole, Charlie www.youtube.com/user/chipos81 (Vectrex tinkerings)
Coogan, Dan www.cooganphoto.com/gravitar/ (Gravitar site/current world record holder of the game)
Cowgill, Clay www.multigame.com/ (Vectrex Moon Lander, PlayStation to Vectrex adapter)
Digital Press (reviews of several Vectrex/vector arcade games)
Dondzila, John (see Classic Game Creations)
www.dreamcodex.com/chirality.php (Chirality vector games; unique and start off simple, but get difficult just as quickly!)
First (?) vector drawing ever? This article details possibly the very first vector drawing on a multi-million dollar computer back in the 1950s.
FURY furyunlimited.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
emdkay.net--these guys make miniature reproductions of many arcade games, although only four inches tall! Vector games they do include, Star Wars, Tempest, and Lunar Lander
www.gametronik.com/site/emulation/vectrex/--Vectrex and Cinematronics downloads of all kinds can be found here
Gary's gaming blog--has several unfinished game demo ideas for the Vectrex
Gauze's Vectrex site--unfinished Custer's Revenge and Reactor clones
Good Deal Games www.gooddealgames.com/ (VecSports Boxing)
Habot, Ronen vgcollect.freehosting.net/myvectrex.htm (Vectrex homebrewer, hardware)
Hally, Mike interview (guy behind Star Wars and Gravitar)
Herbert, Alex--see below
Herbs64 www.herbs64.com/ (Vectrex homebrewer--Alex Herbert)
History of Computing--has several vector arcade games, as well as the Vectrex.
home.comcast.net/~mtpacifico/index.htm--guy has Space Duel, Star Wars, Asteroids Deluxe and Battlezone, along with various other games and such
www.ionpool.net/--tons of links involving vector games, including Demon, QB-3, War of the Worlds, Topgunner
jeffspega.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/tron-and-robotron-deleted-vectrex-story.html--guy's blog about buying a VIC-20 computer, but bought a Vectrex instead
John's Arcade--guy has Tempest, Black Widow, and Star Wars/The Empire Strikes Back. His YouTube page is here, along with his home page, Twitter and podcast
www.twitchasylum.com/jsvecx/--JSVecX, an online Vectrex emulator (no sound though, but several homebrews and original GCE games)
Krumlinde, Ville www.emix8.org/ (Vectrex Thrust homebrew)
LaserMAME--largest MAME playing in the world!
Madtronix www.madtronix.com/html/vectrex.html (various Vectrex projects)
Mager, Kurt magesfolly.net/ (Star Hawk 2 [Note: the site only works on Internet Explorer, Opera Mobile and some version of FireFox])
Minion Software--(remake of Atari vector Star Wars game; unfortunately site is gone, but it can be downloaded elsewhere)
www.mikesarcade.com/arcade/--has arcade monitor schematics and other vector-related stuff
Morgan, Travis www.travisjmorgan.com www.youtube.com/user/morgantj (Vectrex Spike song)
Norbert's Emulators--Atari 800 Asteroids emulator
Outerworld Arcade--has pages for non-vector, along with Rip Off and Armor Attack, plus schematics and repairs and such
Pinball rebel--local Houston guy, but he has vector games
Recycled Gamer recycledgamer.com/ (SNES, Genesis and other controllers converted to work with the Vectrex)
RetroZone www.retrousb.com/index.php (USB adapters for Vectrex controllers to use on computers)
Retrogaming Roundup--this podcast is in regards to their top 10 arcade vector games!
Retro video gamer site with several Vectrex reviews, all by our own TrekMD
Revival Studios www.revival-studios.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
The Rise and Fall of Vector games Good Deal Games article (part 1 only)
www.rotheblog.com/ has quite a few vector pages, including an entire one devoted to Atari Star Wars links, several vector games made it on his 15 most valuable classic arcade games page, there's a page for Quantum reproduction artwork, a few vector games made it (Star Castle, Red Baron) on his arcade artwork page, and you'll find a few other vector mentions (Star Castle, Red Baron, Tempest) in his categories page; whew!
Rudy the Rud--(Vectrex cab, although site is now gone)
Sega G-80 Multigame--Clay Cowgill's board for playing all Sega vector games
Siewers, Dan kokosplace.50webs.com (Vectrex homebrewer, various hardware/projects)
de Smet, Mark maxwell.fief.org/projects.html (Vectrex homebrewer/projects)
solarfox.triluminary.net/arc_main.php--guy has Space Wars and Space Duel, among other raster games
Spike's Big Vectrex Page--although it hasn't been updated in years, there's plenty of Vectrex stuff here
Stage Select (database of Vectrex, vector coin-op, and vector-like games with pics, reviews and more)
www.stickycarpet.com/pinx/main.html--guy has Asteroids and Black Widow pages, along with repair schematics and the like
Swift Stitch official web site (unique "escape" puzzle/action game)
www.system16.com/--entire pages of Atari and Sega vector games
Tardis remakes--many vector games have been remade, such as Omega Race (twice!), Rip Off, Zektor, Space Fury, Star Castle, Arcadia (originally raster) AND Black Widow!
Team Y nunoleiria.wordpress.com (Mine Storm, Spike and Fortress of Narzod on Commodore 64)
Temped--Tempest editor so you can create your own levels, change colors and such, etc.
The Blanks' www.youtube.com/user/BlanksEnterprises, theblanks.com/ (used Vectrex sounds for their music)
Thieves--Rip Off clone for Windows, Irix and Linux systems
Time photo essay--Founding fathers of video games article, having people involved with Black Widow, Asteroids, Major Havoc, etc.
Tomczak, Sebastian www.blogger.com/profile/12712567577323498804, www.youtube.com/user/littlescale (Vectrex projects)
Tristar & Red Sector Incorporated www.trsi.de (Spike, Fortress of Narzod and Mine Storm for C-64)
Tuts, Kristof interview
Tutstronix www.kristofsnewvectrexgames.comli.com/index.htm (Vector Pilot and Vectrexians)
Upsidedown Games (Space Junk and other vector-like app games)
Urbancik, Pavel vectex.itherm.cz/ (Raster Vectrex replacement in works)
Vector-like games--online and/or downloadable games you can play, such as games at Chrome Atari (versions here of Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone and Tempest), Home Star Runner vector-like game, Scrxxx Scramble (Scramble vector remake), Space Rubbish (interesting turn on Asteroids), Tank Hunter (think Battlezone, just with a bunch of themed missions [at least 19] and power-ups and such, which I also gave it a 9 out of 10 in a review), Terry the Turtle Vektor (remake for the Spectrum ZX, but done in vector), Vector Conflict: The Siege, Vector Runner (kind of like the second area of the Star Wars arcade vector game, just you're on the surface of the Death Star in a vehicle; you collect power-ups and dodge obstacles), Vector Stunt (race along like with S. T. U. N. Runner, get points for doing stunts), the Vector TD games ("tower defense" games of Vector TD, Vector TD 2, and Vector TDX)
Vector VGA--wow! Company has this technology to convert raster to vector, along with monitors compatible with many Atari vector coin-ops!
Vectorgeddon game
www.vectorlist.org/--forums in regards to coin-op vector game questions and repair.
VectorLocusts--does someone have a working link to download this game with?
Vector 2600 hacks--hacked versions of various 2600 games can be found in this link on Atari Age.
Vector Tract game
Vectorzoa vectorzoa.com/ (Vectrex homebrews)
Vectrex capacitor kit info (/for sale!)
Vectrex Crossword puzzle
Vectrex database
Vectrex debuzz kit info (/for sale)
www.vectrex.de/--Helmut Muller's Vectrex site (German)
Vectrex downloads--sure, you can download Vectrex ROMs on several sites, but this is at the Internet Archive where a crapload of them are in one place
Vectrex Facebook group in regards to high scores and the like.
Vectrex overlays--scanned and can be downloaded
Vectrex PreAmp Buzz Reduction wiki
Vectrex Regeneration--the Vectrex app, for iPads and iPhones
Vectrex tech wiki
Vecx--Vectrex emulator for the Android
My Vectrex wiki, currently having nearly 200 articles.
VectrexMad! Productions www.vectrex.co.uk/ (Vectrex hardware, info and Vectrex Vec-Cab blog)
Vexel Games site, which has links to many other accounts of theirs (Digg, Facebook, Twitter, etc.), as they are nearing completion of their Trace Vector game
Vidiot Arcade--guy owns an Asteroids Deluxe, Battlezone, Omega Race, Red Baron and Tempest, along with other games/pinballs, plus some other vector games in his past games page
Warp demo videos--videos for the upcoming vector game for the iPad and the like
XtremeBeam--vector-like game apps for your iPad. Go to their home page or Twitter account
www.zektor.com/zvg/index.html--Zektor hardware for running vector games on any vector monitor (been sold out for years though)