Unfinished TRON prototype on Vectrex platform

[sonicawesomeness]

watch?v=9e4uYashDuw play this with it :) Trust me

[sonicawesomeness]

Where's the 8-bit Derezzed when ya need it

[dmitridostoyevski]

Rogue Synapse did better than this!

[kinmanyuen]

such a shame, so much potential

[Digijedi569]

5 dislikes? i swear ppl just hit the dislike button because they are jerks!

[Vectrex333]

/watch?v=eY7meENfmQE

[Sac077]

Talk about a match made in heaven. This would've been perfect

[linklesuperguerrier]

dommage pas fini

[PowerL1N3]

Tron looks perfect for vectrex

[TheSektorz]

Yeah, light cycles and vertex graphics are born to be together, I wish this game was finished

[marcusmalone]

Tron would have been an ideal Vectrex title!

[WinstonSmith6079]

Nice! I miss ye olde vector-scan graphics! Even though graphics technology has advanced exponentially, it still seems that the old vector-scan as it was just hasn't yet been duplicated, not even in MAME. :(

Great upload!

[leefuji]

got mine in 1984 :-)

[kinmanyuen]

this machine is made for tron! 3d lightcycle is possible

[heatflash888]

An old Hard Drive! It must be MFM, amazing it still worked

[spi87]

EXCELLENT! *The Blueprint: Tron + The Last Star Fighter + AtariVox II (Voice Synthesizer) = Incredible Gaming Experience! 

[MoopyHedgehog]

MOAR

[vectrexmad]

when are you going to show a fuller version (and with sound) ?

[blackhawkfan54]

dis aint no hoax... those are real vector lines being drawn and a vectrex don't lie...

now where's that code come from?

Atari had this game (TRON) in a 'vector' prototype truths be told -before bally/midway won out to make the game...

So is this based on that atari unreleased code? hmmm do post more and where is the sound fx?

[Darrylb500]

Hah, nice hoax :)

[WinstonSmith6079]

@Darrylb500 Heh, "hoax"? How do you figure? ???

[Darrylb500]

Hah...because not one single GCE game ever had an animated title screen, they all just had the game name and copyright date, that was it. They never had the Tron license either.

Oh, and I love blackhawk's comment about it not being a hoax; oh please. You can get development kits where you can test your games on a real Vectrex, as I did a write-up of Ville K. of the Thrust homebrew on my Vectrex Wikia and he developed Thrust for nearly a year on a computer before he tested it on a Vectrex.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@Darrylb500 Hmm...now taking a closer look, I think I believe you now. And come to think of it, maybe the Tron Legacy-style of the typeface of the Tron logo (0:14) is kind of a give-away. I mean the Tron logo didn't look like that even for the much more recent Tron 2.0 video-game, no not until the release of the film Tron Legacy.

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[SirTobbii]

@WinstonSmith6079

That is not the Legacy styled typeface, that is the actual classic style.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@SirTobbii Oh, right. The "T" and the "R" are different hehehehe

[WinstonSmith6079]

@Darrylb500 [...continued from last post....]

Furthermore, as far as licensing went, unlike today, licences were normally quite exclusive. For the home video-game market, it was Mattel (the makers of the Intellivision, the Aquarius home computer, and the M Network brand of games for the Atari 2600 VCS) that had the licence to do the Tron stuff, not Vectrex.

...Hmm, yeah! I'm now inclined to believe that this IS a hoax, as you say! I'm sorry that I doubted you. :( hehe

[Darrylb500]

@WinstonSmith6079 No apology necessary, I thought the whole thing was more amusing rather than anything else.

The main thing is that all Vectrex title screens had text only. Even though there were tons of cancelled Vectrex projects, a Tron one was never heard of ever. Plus the date this was posted is a dead giveaway too, being April 1st...April Fool's Day.

[WinstonSmith6079]

@Darrylb500 Oh, LOL! April Fools! hehehe

You seem to know a lot about the Vectex. So when are vector-scan graphics going to be truly, 100% emulated, rather than just transferred (or whatever) to our current-day raster-scan screens?

As I said before, I actually miss ye olde vector-scan, and would love to play the old coin-ops via MAME in real (or "real" enough) vectors AND give the Vectrex--of which I never had one of my own--a try as well.

[vectrexmad]

@WinstonSmith6079 As you say you can never truely appreciate Vector graphics on a standard computer screen. However, I do recommend a fantastic emulator which tries to emulate the vectrex screen as much as possible. Google ParaJVE to find the free download. Its much better then the MAME emulator.

[Darrylb500]

@WinstonSmith6079 I know a lot about the games (especially homebrews) in general, but I'm not a tech person, so I can't say. People have said you can't TRULY get vector graphics without a vector monitor, so maybe never!

BTW, some company called Data Access is working on getting some kind of Vectrex unit released, supposedly this year. Don't know if it's a handheld that attaches to a tv or what. I don't have real high hopes for it but we'll have to see I guess. Might be something for you!