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Post by gliptitude on Jun 8, 2013 0:40:27 GMT -5
Complete List of Vector Arcade Titles Produced (44):
Atari (14)
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe
Battlezone
Black Widow
Empire Strikes Back
Gravitar
Lunar Lander
Major Havoc
Quantum
Red Baron
Space Duel
Star Wars
Tempest
Tomcat (prototype)
Centuri (1)
Aztarac
Cinematronics / Vectorbeam (16)
Armor...Attack
Barrier
Boxing Bugs
Cosmic Chasm
Hovercraft (prototype)
Rip Off
Scramble
Solar Quest
Space War
Speed Freak
Star Castle
Starhawk
Sundance
Tail Gunner
War of the Worlds
Warrior
Exidy (1)
Vertigo / Top Gunner
Midway/Bally (2)
Earth Friend (prototype)
Omega Race
Rock-Ola (3)
Demon
QB-3
Rocket Racer (prototype)
Sega (6)
Battlestar (prototype)
Eliminator
Space Fury
Star Trek
Tac/Scan
Zektor
Williams (1)
Predators (prototype)
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 8, 2013 0:45:41 GMT -5
I attempted to make a complete list for my own reference, and I thought others might also find it useful or interesting.
Please post in this thread any games that I missed, and I will update the first post.
I did not intend to include clones or cabinet variations as separate entries. Also no games whose existence cannot be verified.
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Post by gamezone on Jun 8, 2013 0:52:03 GMT -5
Thanks. Looks like it took some time and it shows. Well done.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 8, 2013 7:34:37 GMT -5
Only one you missed that I know of is Vertigo by Exidy, although I'm not 100% sure if it was supposed to be vector or not, I think it was.
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Post by TrekMD on Jun 8, 2013 10:13:21 GMT -5
Cool, thanks for putting this together.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 8, 2013 10:38:40 GMT -5
Decided to make this into a sticky  |
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 8, 2013 17:15:06 GMT -5
Only one you missed that I know of is Vertigo by Exidy, although I'm not 100% sure if it was supposed to be vector or not, I think it was. Thanks. I have added it. According to arcade-museum.com entry: "Trivia: This is supposedly the last vector game." According to this MAME page, Exidy re-released the game as Top Gunner, a year or two later: mamedev.org/roms/topgunnr/ |
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Post by ledzep on Jun 9, 2013 14:34:09 GMT -5
Ha, a while ago I updated the Wikipedia page that listed all the vector arcade games because there was only like 16 of them included. I got it up to 35 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Vector_arcade_gamesI never got the Exidy game because as far as I can tell they don't have a separate entry for either version (Top Gunner or Vertigo). Sounds like someone with some knowledge of that game should create a page like that. |
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Post by matthewdfisher on Jun 10, 2013 8:47:47 GMT -5
As far as I know, QB-3 was never released commercially. (It was site tested in Chicago, and the team was having a hard time figuring out why it would take in a ton one day and practically nothing the next. Turns out it was only one guy who played the crap out of it when he wasn't in class and basically nobody else played it at all! Rockola found this out when the guy later interviewed with them.)
Are you including prototypes then? If so, here are a few more:
Cinematronics: Scramble (no relation to the Stern game) and Hovercraft
Sega: Battle Star
Bally: Earth Friend Mission
Williams: Predator
At the very least, it seems that EFM and Predator were site tested on location in or around Chicago. I seem to remember reading that at least a few Scrambles made it to Germany. The sound board used with Space Fury is the Battle Star board and presumably would have been used with that game as well. Predator was to have been a system of four linked cabinets.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 10, 2013 9:19:18 GMT -5
As far as I know, QB-3 was never released commercially. (It was site tested in Chicago, and the team was having a hard time figuring out why it would take in a ton one day and practically nothing the next. Turns out it was only one guy who played the crap out of it when he wasn't in class and basically nobody else played it at all! Rockola found this out when the guy later interviewed with them.) That's funny! |
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 10, 2013 15:53:23 GMT -5
Ok, I was going to quote matthewdfisher and ledzep in this post, but it looks like the "quote" command works differently now, so I couldn't (or rather, didn't) figure it out. (I started writing this post as a "guest" so maybe that was the issue)
... There wasn't much work put into this list and the wikipedia section was my first source. Other sources involved sorting through mostly Asteroids clones. ... I just like to see them all together, and organized this way. And of course I think it is a list that should be conveniently viewable on the "Vector Gaming" boards.
I can edit the list in any way that there is a consensus to do so. But I was kind of careful about how I described my parameters - "... Titles Produced" and whose "existence [can] be verified", excluding clones. The purpose was to have a concise but comprehensive reference of what is established as Vector Gaming. I wanted it to be a substantial and articulate list, and a fair representation of the subject. Unverifiable obscurities would seem to make it a bloated, (and less useful) list.
The Exidy game definitely EXISTED, (and apparently did see a limited public exhibition, under both titles), and you can currently access the game ROM at the page that I linked.
QB-3 was previously on my list in (parenthesis) as a prototype. I decided to include it because there was enough information and images (video as well as a ROM I think) to verify that this game saw the light of day in some verifiable capacity. The game looks substantial and unique to me, so I decided not to obsess over whether or not an arcade owner ever paid money for it, or whether or not a kid ever inserted a quarter.
Hovercraft is a game that I was aware of (for which I previously started a thread in this forum section), but I deliberately excluded it because the content of this game cannot be demonstrated. It is only something that we have heard talked about, and which none of us have ever seen, (as far as I know).
I'll look into the others that matthew named and see if I think they belong on the list, and also take into consideration if anyone else has opinions on them.
... So I guess I would say that the list should be substantial. The criteria should not take precedent over the list itself. So a game that is a "prototype" will be considered, but there needs to be some substantive justification for its inclusion. If there is not a concrete representation of the gameplay, I think it belongs on a different list.
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Post by VectorX on Jun 10, 2013 16:11:28 GMT -5
If you want to see all kinds of stuff (including bootlegs), go here: www.andysarcade.de/Click on All Vector Games at left. I was surprised at many things there, not knowing Sega and Taito distributed Asteroids, for one thing (?). |
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Post by gliptitude on Jun 10, 2013 17:38:00 GMT -5
If you want to see all kinds of stuff (including bootlegs), go here: www.andysarcade.de/Click on All Vector Games at left. I was surprised at many things there, not knowing Sega and Taito distributed Asteroids, for one thing (?). ^- Another one of my sources. So many Asteroids clones! ...Battle Star looks sweet, but the only documentation of the game play that I see is the (tiny) images in the flyer. Enough to make me excited, but I wouldn't want it on the list unless something more turns up. |
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Post by matthewdfisher on Jun 11, 2013 8:41:06 GMT -5
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Post by matthewdfisher on Jun 11, 2013 8:43:22 GMT -5
Oh, I've never been able to find out ANYTHING about Battle Star either, other than the Convert-a-cab flyer. I assume it was a victim of the "crash", although that didn't hit arcades as hard as home consoles. Then again, it might have been a victim of the G08 monitors catching on fire...
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