New Vectrex Game: Thrust

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Ville Krumlinde has been working on a new Vectrex game called Thrust.
It is based on a Commodore 64 game of the same name. The game posted on
YakYak is a beta candidate for public release.

Thrust involves maneuvering your ship against gravity into a planet and
picking up a pod with your tractor beam. At that time the pod is like a
pendulum that you try to keep from swaying too much as you escape out of
the planet.

I have played Thomas Jentzsch's homebrew version of Thrust for the Atari
2600. Now there is a Vectrex version. Great fun!

http://www.yakyak.org/viewtopic.php?t=20002

Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA
(Beta tester for Vectrex Thrust)

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Wow, it's AWESOME !!!!

He must have worked on it a long, long time as it's incredibly polished,
especially the title graphic and music on the intro screen.

The game play is REALLY slick too, and from what I remember, faithful to the
C64 version.


Who is he ?


He's certainly got 'mad coding skillz'





Richard H.

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> Wow, it's AWESOME !!!!

Yes, it is rather good.

> He must have worked on it a long, long time as it's incredibly polished,
> especially the title graphic and music on the intro screen.

Apparently, seeing the Protector promo mpeg is what sparked the motivation
to create it. So that's me dead chuffed! :-)

> The game play is REALLY slick too, and from what I remember, faithful to
the
> C64 version.

More buttons on the Vec controller though which helps the playability no
end.

> Who is he ?

Heh, well he's thanked you in the readme file for the VecRam so presumably
he bought one from you?

> He's certainly got 'mad coding skillz'

And the Vectrex is blessed with yet another great homebrew.


Alex

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"Richard Hutchinson" <richard.hutchinson@dsl.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> Wow, it's AWESOME !!!!


I'm gonna have to get me one of them there Vec Ram carts aren't I?!

Is there an imminent update of the cart Richard or am I thinking of the
VecVoice?

cNp

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>Is there an imminent update of the cart Richard or am I thinking of the
>VecVoice?

VecRam has now been superseded by VecFlash (ready now)

VecVoice is now VecVox (VecVoice compatible) (coming soon)


VecVox is more than just a speech synth - it's capable of many different
sound effects (robots etc) + it's got a 5 channel synth built-in.




Richard H.

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"Alex H" <herbs64@spam.spam.spam.spam.yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Apparently, seeing the Protector promo mpeg is what sparked the motivation
> to create it. So that's me dead chuffed! :-)

Oh, hey Alex-- I forgot to tell you before...

Kazunori Yamauchi (project leader for the Gran Turismo games on the
Playstation and president of Polyphony Digital) came by our arcade at the
beginning of the year. I have one of the Protector carts you sent me on
permanent display there and he and his FMV design director really took a
shine to it. We have a picture up here:

http://www.groundkontrol.com/news/yamauchi.php

Thought you'd enjoy that. ;-)

-Clay