Classic Game Room HD - MINE STORM for Vectrex review

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Classic Game Room HD reviews MINE STORM for Vectrex from 1982. Mine Storm is a built in game for the Vectrex (at least for my unit) and is similar to Asteroids with elements of Geometry Wars. It plays on the Vectrex with vector based graphics and uses a screen overlay to give some style and show the button layout for the Vectrex controller. Shoot bad guys in space and avoid the nasties that try and chase you around the screen. Mine Story is an excellent arcade game that feels like an arcade game when played on the Vectrex with the awesome controller. This CGRHD review of Mine Storm on Vectrex has gameplay footage from Mine Story and game play showing the Vectrex video game console from GCE in action! This is an excellent game for retro gamers and fans of old school video games and arcade classics from the early 80's.

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@SuiHoshi 13 лет назад

Hearing that opening tune again sent nostalgia chills!!

@CostaApostolou 10 лет назад

My uncle just gave me his vectrex I'm so happy lol.

@deadcaliph6414 3 года назад

Do you still have it?

@Retsler54 4 года назад

This was one of the absolute best Vectrex games. I want the return of Vectrex!

@axedoctor 10 лет назад

You are seriously bringing memories back. I miss my Vectrex!

@llllcryptxllll 4 года назад

I had that console, bought it in 84, i spent hours on that, i miss it, it was great, thanks to bring back so much good memories. ^^

@LottiDotti76 Год назад

I freakin' loved playing this game for hours on end! I used to love shooting the follow/fire back enemies until they were all small. Then corralling them up and try to blast them all in a row.

@RetroGamesCity 2 года назад

This is a game of my childhood. Thank you for the reminder. In the afternoon I will play it after work. Greetings from RetroGameCity 😊

@ForgetfulCollector 15 лет назад

The dentist office that I go to has one of these things. I'll have to buy it sometime, sure is fun to play!

@guitarfolies 3 года назад

Wow, this brought back memories I didn't even know I had ! I was a toddler when I played this ! THAT MUSIC !! ^^

@capodastaro 15 лет назад

That game looks really bad ass, I love those vector graphics, they look so bright and vivid.

@thewhammy83 15 лет назад

I've been playing this game for over 20-something years. Unfortunately, there is no Mine Field 14. If you're able to get past MF 13, you'll skip to MF 15 and must shoot dots and other mines. Sometimes, the game might end after MF 13. Afterward, more weird-shaped and dotted mines, extra lives and more Mine Field skipping. The score will go crazy if you go over a million points. My brother and I were able to make it in the early 30s Mine Fields. Fun times.

@toose70 14 лет назад

I've still got my Vectrex. I got it in 1982 when i was 12 and my kids play with it now :) I reckon, i got the worlds highest score on Minestorm. I once scored over 900,000 LOL

@progrocker69 15 лет назад

Looks like the whole machine was worth the price of admission just for that pack-in game. I remember seeing ads for those back when I was 11 or 12 and wanting to play one SOOOOOO bad. Of course, I was never even lucky enough to find a demo model in a department store I could try. Gonna have to track down a used one sometime soon. =)

@SpecterM91 15 лет назад

I'm buying one of these someday. Looks freaking awesome.

@Necronomous 5 лет назад

Me and my buddy ran away from home, just to visit a guy that had a Vectrex. I wasn't more then 3-4 years old at that time. He lived in a house not that far from where I lived, the problem was that it was over the road, and as a little kid. I was not allowed to walk over the road when mom wasn't with me. But yeah, there my gamingdevil was fed. When I later on turned 7, I got my NES as a birthdaypresent. That NES I still got, fully functional, and it still looks like brand new out of the box. It became 31 years old this year. So yeah, I am proud of that I kept it for so long. Because all of my mates that got their NES have sold them, and later on bought other ones, worse shape then theirs when they sold them. But mine, TOTALLY one owner piece of marvel!

@andrasdomokos4538 5 лет назад

When i was about 8-9, i played a lot with Vectrex. Mine Mine Storm record was about more than 100 level finished after 3.5 hour playing.. :) Greetings from Hungary.

@djayricky 13 лет назад

My dad had one of these when I was a kid. Memories.

@sinistermoon 15 лет назад

AWESOME! Man I missed the review you did for the Vectrex so I will go watch that right now. Way awesome video.

@jonkillings2747 5 лет назад

My mum bought a vectrex for my brother in 1982 who spent 2 months in hospital after being hit by a car and was in traction.

@atextor 14 лет назад

I had the opportunity to play mine storm today at the gamescom where a retro-game-booth had a vectrex. Actually, it looks pretty cool with the sharp lines and neon-afterglow (in real life better than in videos). A shame that the vector technique didn't win over the pixel... just imagine the games we would have today if this would have been the way all vendors chose!

@Skriak 15 лет назад

"The fourth button just calls for help...but no one answers." ^_^

@CrimsonDusk 15 лет назад

Seriously now I've been a gamer since 1998 and played my first games on a Terminator, NES clone, on a black and white cathode TV screen, so that's pretty old school and the most cool thing about the Terminator is that it wasn't region coded or the cartridges weren't because I played US and Japanese games like Kage( still have them).

@Fanvadenaxar 15 лет назад

A very well made review of the first Vectrex game! Enjoyed it!

@legofans452 14 лет назад

I just finished playing Armor..Attack on my Vectrex. Unfortuatly, out of the... 14(?) games I have for it, I only have the overlay for three. (Minestorm, Armor..Attack, Berzerk). I love the Vectrex.

@vectrexer 15 лет назад

Cool review. Thanks!

@notyoursavior78 15 лет назад

haha awesome that looks like so much fun. I want a Vectrex now! The graphics are really crisp too. I liked Mark's reflection in the video at the end.

@Adamchevy 8 лет назад

If you listen to the Jay Miner talk on RU-vid from cge 2014, he mentions that the vectrex originally was Battery powered by design. Also, there were a few Vectrex Mini arcade cabs made for bars and restaurants. There's was less than 10 made, and there's one on eBay for sale right now. For a meager $3800.

@RMJ1984 9 лет назад

You know, i find this pretty impressive even today. I mean let alone back then, this surely must have turned some heads. i sadly never played this back in the day. Then again ive though im old, im not old enough haha, 1984 :P born to late.

@BoxcarWillie42 15 лет назад

Great review!!

@CoolMrCortez 7 лет назад

Vectrex slogan: Give up my Atari? My Intellivision? You bet your Asteroids!

@jugglingembalmer 8 лет назад

I like that you don't drift that much when you thrust. That makes it much more fun that Asteroids in my opinion. You're not so bound to the center in this game.

@GamingPalooza 15 лет назад

well of course it's better then the 360... it's still working after 5 years... unlike most 360's.

@Retrogamer71 15 лет назад

Hope there are some Vectrex hardware nerds who can give the technical detail of the machine. The system was amazing when I saw it as a ten year old.

@brtshstel 15 лет назад

you know Adobe Illustrator used vecotr graphics too. great for resizing because you don't lose quality when you zoom way in or out or when you blow images up to larger sizes

@silviocinti 10 лет назад

I need Vectrex!

@lastvaquero 15 лет назад

Amazing, I gotta go find one now ;D

@greatail 15 лет назад

I was so close to buying one, then it got picked up... and out of humiliation, my used game store got a load of Vectrex games

@zatoishy 15 лет назад

Really nice dude, i love your reviews, keep been nice =)

@mexamexo8 14 лет назад

VECTREX RULES!!! Hey mark there is a turbo fire accesorie for the vectrex and a controller built for hyper chase (which is like a paddle) as well. the light pen has four related games and the giant 3d glasses (3d imager) has three games realesed, they had color without an overlay. I hope this info is helpfull altough they are not very afortable, non of them.

@bongmygong1991 15 лет назад

You see his face a lot in previous videos, also, all games which allow Mark to design his characters, he makes to look like him...

@mexamexo8 14 лет назад

VECTREX RULES!!! hey mark there is a turbo fire accesorie for the vectrex and a controller built for hyper chase (which is like a paddle) as well. the light pen has four related games and the giant 3d glasses (3d imager) has three games with color without overlay. I hope this info is helpfull altough they are not very afortable.

@-IFFTI- 15 лет назад

amazing!

@zeliph 15 лет назад

Vetrex has a blue light neon graphics? That would be cool if there was a remake of vetrex, but a controller where you connect to a tv(those cheapo controllers with 10 video games or something you find in the handheld section in walmart or something.) And add new colors to it. Like neon green, red, and pink. Besides the plain blue color. That would be cool. It will be like Geometry Wars graphics. I can just imagine it now...

@delfmeek 15 лет назад

i love Geometry wars! This game reminds me a lot of it!

@xxPutnik 15 лет назад

Great game!

@james42519 15 лет назад

well glad to know you finally learned how to comment. congratulations on your first comment ever i guess. FYI next time you don't have to number your comments. that could get confusing getting into the 100's now wouldn't it? this game is not bad though i guess. man i spend too much time on this comment to a troll.

@gfujdfjki 15 лет назад

this is awesome!

@Luudite 15 лет назад

Looks like this video (maybe?) has spawn a run on Vectrex units on eBay. they seem to be going for like 100 clams plus. Yowza :)

@riproar11 2 года назад

I had a Vectrex for a few months. Like most video games and consoles in the mid-1980s, you eventually become bored of the games.

@MooseBurrito575 15 лет назад

the stage at 4:30 you kicked ass mark ;D

@Cellfix Год назад

Viral Dog would aprove!

@sagartie 5 лет назад

Best Game Console ever !

@Obi-WanKannabis 14 лет назад

Vectrex, magnavox odyssey and Nintendo Wii are the most inovative consoles ever

@thetillman45 13 лет назад

Did you know that there is a glitch that makes it so that you cannot get past level 13? Anyone that wrote a complaint letter like "argh wyh wai cnt i get past lvl 13 bro?" Would get a free copy of Mine Storm 2. (Which is actually just a fixed version of MineStorm) Very few people ever did, so this makes MineStorm 2 probably the most rare game for the Vectrex

@martinsven3797 11 лет назад

Looks good, CRT's can probably display similar with the right settings.

@dkukov 15 лет назад

Dont forget the overlay? Yeah... I would want to see a overlay for a 60+ inch TV. It would probably need 2-3 man to put it on :D.

@AaronAndersonRWP 13 лет назад

Does everyone spam the fire button on this game? I've always taken precise shots, to conserve space ammo, or megajoules or whatever...

@InvaderGill 15 лет назад

lol, the overlay would have to be really big to fit my 50 inch plasma!

@CrimsonDusk 15 лет назад

Yes if they make ports for the PS3 or 360 Vectrex games they should give the game with an overlay for your wide screen TV and I'm not kidding I want my overlay to play the games old school, on an LCD.

@theawesomegamr 12 лет назад

they should make an arcade machine for geometry wars, but with vector graphics! that would be so cool!

@anthonymathers5608 9 лет назад

I forgot to mention that there is a pretty good vectrex emulator called ParaJVE for windows. Just type ParaJVE in your browser.

@ExedEyes 15 лет назад

I cant really remember but I think it was in his unboxing of the ps3 video.

@Skriak 15 лет назад

Does anyone know if you can get a Vectrex's picture displayed on another TV screen through some kind of technical trickery? That would be sweetness.

@tomacco3k 8 лет назад

Playing the port on the C64 right now!

@TheCRTman 12 лет назад

This is just as good as Asteroids. Homebrew maker John Dondizila made a dead-on Asteroids clone called Rockaroids and Rockaroids Remix (1996). It costs only $10 on his website. (classicgamingcreations)

@DeathbyDusk 15 лет назад

An improperly insulated speaker wire in close proximity to the cathode ray tube.

@SirScavenger 10 лет назад

When I was a kid I made it to level 54 before my eyes went buggy.

@themagicboy6548 7 лет назад

no you didn't, minestorm crashes at level 13

@passie29 6 лет назад

no not onall Vextrex, on mine you could play beyond 30. i think the crashes @ 13 were only the early models

@neallyons9515 Год назад

@@themagicboy6548 i know this post is ancient but my vectrex would crash at 13 also, but only sometimes! so my brother and I would try over and over until it didn't crash. It would also crash randomly on higher levels but not as often as 13 did. I have read that if you have no bullets flying across the screen as the level ends, it won't crash. Haven't tested this theory.

@BigBossJ 15 лет назад

I bet Star Wars Arcade could run on the vectrex if someone tried to make it.

@FSMusicLTD 13 лет назад

best console in the world

@james42519 15 лет назад

dang. i really didn't look because wasn't really looking to get one and i don't like to buy stuff online. i don't even have paypal now.

@InvaderGill 15 лет назад

i know... i was just replying to the last thing the guy said in the video.. to put vectrex games on ps3 and 360 "just don't forget the overlay" lol

@Iamtheowl5 15 лет назад

so amazing... and I'll say it again how can you go wrong with a game system that has trex in its name :D

@paulspruill 15 лет назад

i watch all of marks reviews in vecter graphics the wiimote rocks in glowing lines! i am serious

@anthonymathers5608 9 лет назад

Level 218 is my best. Bragging rights! Took more than 4 hours and I was shattered when I'd finished. Don't know what the score was. I don't think the machine could display it after a certain limit. I own the U.K. version of Minestorm on my 30+ year old vectrex . The U.K. version of Minestorm I believe was released as Minestorm 2 in the U.S. probably just a bug fix of U.K. version.

@branden32210 3 года назад

Come back man.

@mdmenzel 3 года назад

Much better than asteroids, imo

@Sbrff 15 лет назад

you can see his face if you watch his old videos...

@RetroGoodness 15 лет назад

lol, nice review. Vectex games kick ASS!

@davidthechupacabra6191 11 лет назад

When i was little kid i be happy trade in my nes for ventrix even artari 2600 c ause ventrix graphics unique and i think it looks better than ugly pixels of artari. I wish i had one back in those days.

@TJae1 9 лет назад

Technical specifications[edit] European release Vectrex playing Minestorm Circuit board[edit] CPU: Motorola 68A09 @ 1.5 MHz RAM: 1 kB (two 4-bit 2114 chips) ROM: 8 kB (one 8-bit 2363 chip) Cartridge ROM: 32 kB MOS 6522 Versatile Interface Adapter (VIA) Sound[edit] Sound: General Instrument AY-3-8912 3" electrodynamic paper cone speaker