VORTEX: The First Arcade Game by the Legendary Chris Stamper | Kim Justice 

I thought that my eyes were going. Only 87k subscribers to this channel? This is nuts. The channel should be called Kim Injustice. The detail and depth of these videos are exemplary and deserve a far wider audience, given the sheer size of the gaming audience. smh

Kim Justice, one of the very few people who could make a six minute video about a bad video game sound interesting.

That hogdamn deadly score counter!

3:10 - Makes sense. Try too hard to chase that high score and eventually you'll kill yourself doing so. It helps when it's stationary.

Love these more shortform videos, thank you so much for sharing your extensive knowledge with us on retro games!

I love the vids this silly sausage puts together

Awesome .... and now I'm hungry for more.... 😄

The Stampers learned a lot from their time in arcade game design. It reminds me of a video I watched recently (by The Electric Underground channel) , about how the death of the arcade means a lot of knowledge about good gaming UI/UX is dying with it. Maybe all wannabe game designers should be obliged to make at least one half-decent game on old arcade board technology, just to learn those lessons again?

Wow, and another one. Great stuff Kim. You are the best. I love these stories...

The Pit was developed by Andy Walker, Tony Gibson, and Taskset - the Stampers adapted it to Centuri's hardware for wider distribution. I haven't played Vortex, but I do enjoy Blue Print (which got a decent C64 conversion). Vortex artist John Lathbury was another key early member of Ultimate.

Wee vids have been a good idea!

You can crash into the score! 😂😂😂

I think this game looks kinda great

Curious what the song in the credits is.

You should edit this video after the the views die down and add it to Ultimate Play The Game video. Take Gyruss part out.

If nothing else, I'm hoping to see this one on LordBBH's Push To Reject series.

Great little video Kim. Time Stamper is a rubbish name. 😊

Holy hell, new octy video, followed by a new KJ video....could today get any better?!

What it shows about them is they always prioritize money over game play. They released an uncontrollable mess. They did so with the conscious decision to do it. They could have required a panel upgrade. Many games did this. There are many games and clones that will run on Pac Man hardware. Virtually all require replacing the control panel. Bad controls has ruined more games than probably anything else in gaming. Bad graphics, bad sound, dumb premises can all take away from an otherwise good game and knock its review score a bit lower. But nothing ruins a game and makes it unplayable like bad controls. Crashing into the score costs a life? Talk about bad design.