Cosmic Chasm

[VectorX]

Of course, this is the game that was the very first home console game to the arcade.



I've never played the arcade game, as I never saw it. Pretty nice how you can shoot machine gun fire shots, along with shooting out doors, rather than drilling them (saves an extra button...). Plus that brief 3-D intermission between areas is pretty nice

[gliptitude]

I was thinking it was on the game list for the California Extreme show this year, (which there is a %15 chance I will go to). But I just checked and it's not there, (numerous other Cinematronics/Vectorbeam games, including Tailgunner, Warrior and Boxing Bugs).

I'm not one of the people who rank Cosmic Chasm at the top of my Vectrex list, but I do think it is a cool, unique and strange title. (The strangest elements to me are the bright dot representing your ship in the map screen and then the graphics and audio when you run out of time and the planet blows up.)

I think it's pretty cool that it's one of the few GCE Vectrex games to use the joystick and all 4 action buttons, and each of the 4 actions are totally necessary to play the game. ... But it is especially difficult to control the drilling, so I can imagine that the arcade game is more fluid.

I can't watch your video with my crappy internet. Does the arcade version include the countdown timer, with hundredths of seconds? That's another distinctive feature of the Vectrex game.

[VectorX]

It doesn't seem to; the guy didn't live for a long time once he destroyed the core.

By the way, that's another difference: it becomes a Star Castle-like objective where you have to shoot layers (rather than plant a bomb) as enemies pour in, which is cool.

[TrekMD]

This is a cool conversion to arcade and the differences from the original just add elements to the gameplay. I never saw this at any arcade.

[VectorX]

Yeah, it didn't do well, but then that was during the crash.

Glad they upped the power of the arcade to add things to it though.