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Vectrex Mini interview - David Oghia talks up the nostalgic vector powerhouse

Having been wowed by the news of the Vectrex Mini at Gamescom , I rushed off some questions to VectrexOn's main man  David Oghia . After a post-event, well earned, break, he's kindly given us a lot of detail about the project and some new images of the unit to share.  His story mirrors mine somewhat, Vectrex represents a glowing, unaffordable, obelisk of gaming power from our youth! But he's had the energy and drive to do something about it, and met the right people to get the job done!  What first got you interested in Vectrex and what spawned the idea of a Mini version? I’ve always been passionate about retro-gaming, but my first love was computers rather than consoles — the ZX81, then the Commodore 128. I only really discovered the console world in the late 90s, which is when I got my very first Vectrex. Of course, I had seen it in stores back in 1983, but at that time it was far too expensive for me.  Today, I own five Vectrex systems at home. Vector-based games ...
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Jeff Minter blogs on Tempest TxK for the Vita

Not long after a first showing of this re-visitation of Tempest 2000 off to Sony, Jeff Minter has written up a milestone blog post showing off his progress and packed full of some proper shots of TxK in action. Equate those images to the information that he's still pretty early in development and it looks like we could have something pretty special on our hands when the game is complete.

"I’ve been adding a lot of the framework upon which the rest of the game will hang, and at this point although there are only a couple of distinct enemy types at the moment there is already in place a few different levels, transitions between those, and the sequence of powerups that’ll eventually lead to warping through to the first Bonus Round."
With all the indie love the Vita is getting recently, with Kickstarter, multi-platform and many dedicated projects on the way, who needs AAA? Of all of them, this and Vektropolis are the ones I want most.

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