Classic Game Room HD – MINE STORM for Vectrex review
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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25 comments
Xurkey on October 6, 2009 at 2:41 pm
If you are trying to be old school why wouldn’t you just play it the way they were played (and still played) today?
Nice try.
Good game.
dougd1015 on October 15, 2009 at 6:22 pm
Can newer consoles do REAL Vector graphics?
Most newer “Vector graphics” games are just simulating them with polygon graphics like with Tempest 2000.
And how old school could you be?
You would playing PORTS on a PS3 or 360 on an LCD!
I’m sorry, I’m just kinda kiddin with ya, I’m just kind of a purist and will in almost every case not take emulation for an answer.
CrimsonDusk on October 15, 2009 at 6:35 pm
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).
mariodivine on October 19, 2009 at 8:06 pm
amazing!
dougd1015 on October 21, 2009 at 3:56 am
That sounds awesome.
I wanna do that right now!
djemil4 on October 28, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Did it also have Star Castle?
Orious69 on November 18, 2009 at 9:30 am
haha
TheLaced on December 3, 2009 at 4:12 am
geometry wars is like this
stinger3420 on December 15, 2009 at 2:01 pm
This must be an ancestor of GeometryWars！
toose70 on December 27, 2009 at 10:40 am
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
schoolgirlshortdress on January 2, 2010 at 4:47 am
Vectrex and the atari 2600, best two systems on the planet…
hugothenerd on January 4, 2010 at 1:40 pm
a little asteroids
fantaorangecan on January 8, 2010 at 8:55 pm
Miss having this. Going to hunt it on Ebay
eyevangogh on January 19, 2010 at 9:17 am
oh Lord!!!
These were awesome!!
XxJoeyTerrifyingxX on February 2, 2010 at 3:06 am
the ship looks like a ummmm part of the male anatomy O_o but iv played this game and its awsome :D
jobrini7 on February 15, 2010 at 8:43 pm
my young years, so cooool
scir91 on February 24, 2010 at 10:11 am
this was my first video game i played back in 1987. before this? game and watch handhelds by nintendo although i would not call them video games customarily
legofans452 on February 28, 2010 at 2:28 pm
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.
epluribusunum0 on May 16, 2010 at 6:26 am
@stinger3420 This is BETTER than Geometry Wars. Hell, I’ve played it on the DS, which is honestly the most fun. The other versions have more features, but, well, jut aren’t as neat. But this, I wanna paly this game NOW!
fades09 on May 27, 2010 at 5:48 pm
@toose70 – You certainly didn’t get the world’s highest score on Vectrex – a number of years back I managed to get to screen 156 having ‘clocked’ the game’s score readout 3 times. It took around 4 hours of constant playing as there’s no pause button. Mental exhaustion was a major factor in not going further. Anyone else done better than that?
fades09 on May 27, 2010 at 5:57 pm
@MrBobza It does if your machine is old & knacked. What actually happens is the waves get harder in groups of 4 with floating mines in group 1, magnetic mines in group 2, floating mines that shoot back in group 3 & magnetic mines that shoot back in group 4. Level 6 has 2 magnetic mines, level 8 has 2 magnetic mines that shoot back. Level 12 has 3 magnetic mines that shoot back. Level 16 is the hardest with 4 magnetic mines that shoot back.
bitbat9 on June 15, 2010 at 2:12 am
@VladimirVLD anything is better than the xbox 360 lol
GodExistsEternally on June 19, 2010 at 6:52 am
Awww, the first birth pains of video games, where would we be today without you.
!!!FUN FACT!!!
The designer and creator of The Vectrex, Tommy Nelson, wanted to go with the name “PenisStorm”. The theme being, get as many eggs pregnant as possible, but quickly abort them when they multiply! … But sadly, they just felt the game “wasn’t family friendly” enough to be released under this title. Hence the name: “MineStorm”
texray on August 21, 2010 at 8:45 pm
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!
TJae1 on September 1, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I guess I’ll settle for the emulator ~ :-(