Vector arcade games

This game should have more love! While the vector graphics based game was not as widely distributed as other games on this list various ASCII graphics and text based games based on the game principles exist. The arcade game is notable for having an interesting 'aircraft-like' throttle to control your thruster and for being one of the few arcarde games where a fuel supply and its conservation is important. For its use of first-person pseudo 3D graphics combined with a "viewing goggle" that the player puts his face into, Battlezone could-be considered the first virtual reality arcade game.

While an interesting and fun game it is not as tactically interesting as Asteroids, Tempest, Start Castle and even Space Wars. It is this high on the list simply because it is so iconic and beloved. This is the granddaddy of vector graphics games. It fact, much like Tennis for Two the great-grand-daddy it started in academia not arcades. My guess is most people have never even played Space Wars.

That is a shame since it is a fun and tactical space ship game that uses the idea of 'thrust and gravity' mechanic like Lunar Lander with the shooting and avoidance game play of Asteroids.

It is the shoulders which both Asteroids and Lunar lander stand upon to be so tall. My personal favorite game. Its is the father of the Star Wars arcades games. The player has a joystick with a fire button and a shield button. Enemy spacecraft come at the player who moves a retical and shoots the enemies or bounces then off with shields to get another crack at them.

Score is based on shooting down and lot letting any fighter pass. Two armored knights face off, they can either do a side swing or an over head swing. This is a somewhat rare game that many might never had seen. Like many early vector games it used colored gels on the screen to provide color and additional graphical element to the play area.

The overhead view of two humanoid characters was interesting, it was the earliest arcade fighting games Tennis For Two was an electronic game developed in on a Donner Model 30 analog computer, which simulates a game of tennis or ping pong on an oscilloscope. Created by American physicist William Higinbotham for visitors at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, it is important in the history of video games as one of the first electronic games to use a graphical display.

Armor Attack Rock-Ola. License of: Armor Attack Cinematronics. Asterock Sidam. EH G Asteroid Karateco. Asteroide Maxenti. Hantarex MTRV. Asteroids Atari. Asteroids SEGA. License of: Asteroids Atari. Asteroids Taito. Asteroids Super Atari? Asteroids Deluxe Atari. Aztarac Centuri. WG Barrier Vectorbeam.

Battlezone Atari. Black Widow Atari. Boxing Bugs Cinematronics. Prototype Unreleased. EH G??? Clone Rock-Ola. Cosmic Chasm Cinematronics.

EH G08 modified. Clone of: Omega Race Midway. Demon Rock-Ola. Earth Friend Midway. Electrohome G Empire Strikes Back Atari. WG Amplifone. Clone of: Star Castle Cinematronics. Toei Mussan LAI xy. Gravitar Atari. Hovercraft Cinematronics. Hyperspace Rumiano. Lunar Battle Atari.

Lunar Lander Atari. Major Havoc Atari. Malibu Atari. Meteor adp. Meteor Omni Video Inc. WG 19V Meteor Hoei. Meteor Rumiano. Meteor Part II Hoei. Meteoroid Subelectro. Meteorites unknown Manufacturer. Omega Race Midway. OOPS Vectorbeam. Outpost Cinematronics. Planet ALCA.