Spike on Vectrex retro games console

[artiplanet]

It is so cute and funny that the polygonal charactors are animated so smoothly.

[AaronAndersonRWP]

The speech kind of blows me away everytime. Nice review/gameplay video. :]

[kinmanyuen]

So awesome... the vectrex lines are a form of art! And the digital sound for its time in the living room!!

[cookie123456789012]

DARNIT

[Toolmusik]

GAME OF THE YEAR

ALL YEARS

[Sclemtak]

It did have Cleansweep which could be considered a Pacman clone. It was good too! Shame that no one has thought of creating some sort of Plug-N-Play TV Vectrex. Now that would make money!

[SteveBenway]

But a plug-n-play tv Vectrex would be missing the one thing that made the Vectrex so unique... the vector screen.

Kinda like having a turkey dinner without the turkey.

[Sclemtak]

Yes i absolutely agree! But the Vectrex and it`s games are getting more and more difficult to get hold of. A Plug-N-Play version built into Original style controller would be a nice alternative to the real thing.PC emulations are amazing!

If i can`t get a turkey dinner i`ll settle for soya with turkey flavouring. lol!

[SteveBenway]

lol @ soya with turkey flavouring.

You make a very fair point  :)

[Sclemtak]

Thanks for that! great video by the way. I used to love playing Spike. It was the first console game i ever heard Talk. It`s a shame MB ever stopped making Vectrex. Definately one of the greatest consoles ever made.

[bisexualbuffthug]

This is the grandaddy of all true hand held or (lap held) portable game systems as it had real sprites and cartridges to use on the go. Too bad it didn't have pacman and mrs pacman at the time. It would have made a killing for vetrex system.

[combatdigiq]

the 1st "speaking" console game ?

[SteveBenway]

I don't know, to be honest. I guess it's possible.

[combatdigiq]

i think it is. vectrex was ahead in a lot of things.

like the controller with 4 different buttons.

not just 4, but 4 independant working one's.

no other had that, or a light pen, or a 3D imaging system.

or the 1st console game ever ported to the arcade.

but it didn't have colour, so in that time when

B&W TV's were absolutely uncool,

it wasn't to be.

put it next to my odessey on my parents big ass colour TV set and it would just fade into the background.

[douro20]

@combatdigiq

Wouldn't know. It's rather interesting how you can emulate PCM sound playback on an AY-3-8910, though. There's a Wikipedia article on it.

[gofyerself]

spike kicked ass. goddamn, being a kid rocked

[morgangamer22]

nice

[plurp7]

knobbletree

[ferret124]

yay

[dallase1]

I always wanted a Vextrex because it had real vector Graphics so it was like a real portable Arcade Quality System. And people thought that Nintendo had the first portable Video Game system with Gameboy or Sega with Game Gear or NEC with the TG16 Express. It was portable for it's day, I mean it's not like it weighed 100s of pounds or something, I'd guess it weighed less then 50 lbs like one of those small black and white TVs of it's time.

[SteveBenway]

Yeah, it's luggable. Not something you can play on the bus, but certainly easy enough to move from room to room, or round to a friend's house.

[Stalin111]

great, I played that for hours.

[GDZjeenik]

ho spike!!

molly!!

[ResinBreath]

I had a vectrex as a kid and loved it, wasn't aware it was capable of speech tho...

[whopoder]

Great! Really good console and game. I like vector animation ; )

[DVD2409]

how much did your vectrex cost???

[SteveBenway]

I don't remember, to be honest. I got it from Game Station a few years ago. A hundred and something pounds, I think. Game Station always sold retro stuff above the going rate on ebay.

[hateleeds22]

15 pound of my mate

[ziwx]

Molly!

[robotwo]

I like how he SCREAMED "DARNIT!" xD

I love those voices 8D

[E2theSamps]

Thank you sir, for this moment of nostalgia!

[banditopeep]

haha i loved this game. Me and my sister played spike back in 1989 i was born in 82 so my vectrex was second hand from a boot fair.

It died unfortunatly :( and i cant find the games anywhere.

Ebaying for one now!!!:D

Thanks for posting this it brought back some very cool childhood memorys.

[Paul19807]

That voice business was a really big thing. This game seemed to be heavily pushed (by Vectrex standards) and the voice was the main selling point.

They had a couple of other games with it, too... forget which ones.

I sold my broken Vectrex with about 7 games in the mid-90's, and I very much regret doing so now :(

[ioport]

Didn't the Vectrex version of Berzerk have voice too?

[Paul19807]

No... I had Berzerk and it didn't have voice. It substituted by putting motivational text messages like, "Kill the Humanoid" on the screen between boards. :)

It was a good assumption though, because you'd think Berzerk would be the perfect choice to have voice.

[playablemovies]

the graphics are actually very good for the time anyways

[SteveBenway]

Yeah, I find them quite impressive, and the sampled speech is excellent, if very funny.