Many of you in this community probably know me, for better or worse, primarily as "that Atari 2600 game reviewer guy."  My love for the 2600 stems from my love of the system as a youth, and the notorious "Christmas Incident of '82," in which I had asked for an "Atari" for Christmas and woke up Christmas to a brand new 5200 system with 6 new games.....  Why notorious you ask?  Have you ever played a 5200, or know what it's like to be the only kid in town with this piece of s#*t non-backwards compatible system?  So why the love for the 2600 due to my hatred for the 5200?  That's probably a better question for someone like Freud to answer.






Anywho, the main reason for this blog post is to inform you that I will be taking a short break from Atari reviews and shifting focus a bit on reviewing some Vectrex titles.  (Hopefully this won't end like it did when Steve Perry left Journey to record "Street Talk").  Though I'm sure that some of you may be unfamiliar with this unique system, but for those who own one, on purpose, or happened to pick one up at a garage sale, these articles may encourage you to pick up a few more games and fire up the ole vector gal.  If you don't own a Vectrex, you might just be encouraged to go out and find one.  So why the Vectrex and why now? 

(1)  The Vectrex is very cool/rad, it has it's own built-in monitor and a pop out controller in one tight package, sweet overlays, plus, all of the graphics are vector (like one of my favorite all time cabinets, Tempest).
(2) I'm currently in the process of moving and I've packed up all of my games and systems except for the Vectrex. 
(3) I recently picked up copies of Pole Position and Polar Rescue (the two more expensive and harder to find titles), as well as some great homebrews from domestic developers, as well as a few from "across the pond."  Now that I have most of the titles I want, me getting you interested won't cost me as much.
 

I know some of you might not care for homebrews and get quite "stancy," but for a system that only produced a handful of titles, it's nice to have people out there working hard to keep interest alive in this historic video gaming relic.  Sure, I completely understand the argument about "keeping with original games and intent" and that's certainly each individuals prerogative (**insert Bobby Brown Music here**), but let's face it, the 3-4 guys still producing these games aren't making a whole lot of money for the large amounts of time they invest into creating/testing them, the boxes, the instructions, and yes, sometimes even the overlays, so they deserve some recognition.  In other words, please don't use my blog as a means of demonizing homebrews....you dig?

"It's the way that I wanna [blog]."

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