Classic Game Room HD - SCRAMBLE for Vectrex review

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Classic Game Room HD - SCRAMBLE for Vectrex review

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Classic Game Room HD reviews SCRAMBLE for Vectrex from 1982, developed by Konami and manufactured by GCE. Scramble was originally released in the arcades in 1981 and made its way to a few game systems including the Commodore 64 and the almighty Vectrex. This Vectrex side scrolling old school SHMUP has amazing gameplay and is addictive and fun. Shoot enemies but be careful not to run out of fuel! It's like River Raid mixed with Vanguard, a side scrolling space ship shooter which stands the test of time and remains a true classic. Developed by Konami, who is known for their popular and awesome Gradius series, Scramble can also be purchased for XBLA / Xbox 360 these days. Vectrex collectors will enjoy the colorful overlay and responsive controls, try and use a non-broken Vectrex controller for those tight spots. This CGR review of Scramble from Konami for Vectrex has Scramble gameplay showing this retro old school vector graphics space ship shooter in action!!

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@cnirman5181 3 жыл бұрын

2021 and this is still absolutely incredible!

@DarthVader1977 Жыл бұрын

2022 now.

@harleyx111 Жыл бұрын

2023 now!

@Obi-WanKannabis 14 жыл бұрын

Vectrex is a hell of inovated, underrated and AWESOME console

@marccaselle8108 2 жыл бұрын

It's awesome to play and see it in person. I tried the vectrex out for the first time 6 years ago and it was amazing. The vector lines are so clear. I can't afford a vectrex because the price is high on crack. I emulate it on RetroPie and have a great time.

@DarthVader1977 Жыл бұрын

hell of an* innovated*,

@Obi-WanKannabis Жыл бұрын

@@DarthVader1977 When we last met I was but a learner, Now I am the master

@thisisrob8750 Жыл бұрын

@@marccaselle8108 its just not the same though,

@LiquidDIO 10 жыл бұрын

So many hours of my childhood with this game!

@svenzia 5 жыл бұрын

same man, scramble still a great game 2019 :)

@chrissiebawn9357 3 жыл бұрын

😀😀😀

@Luke-jx3mj 7 ай бұрын

Same here. Loved it.

@danielramos6893 9 жыл бұрын

Yup...you said it; the awesome responsiveness, and smoothness of gameplay is one of the big things I remember about Vectrex. Was an awesome, yet somewhat obscure, little system.

@andreiuul1 3 жыл бұрын

the intro to this channel man... it just brings back simpler times

@DrunkenPoetic 11 жыл бұрын

It's amazing this bad-boy still works after all these years. Just plug it in, press the power button and bang, you're back in the 1980s.

@starfirex2413 3 жыл бұрын

I had this game and console. Got it as a Christmas present and many hours were spent playing this great game!

@proeyebry 8 жыл бұрын

Love the Vector Graphics! To eBay I go, got to have myself a Vectrex!

@viejaspeliculasfilipinas3621 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I hope it's cheap and in good condition

@Hylanvahr 15 жыл бұрын

Just from Scramble, you can see the awesome potential in pre-NES Konami which led to the legendary Contra and Gradius games. Thank you for this review. For me being an early 80s child, this was an easy 5 stars + fave. :)

@Viva_Reverie 15 жыл бұрын

Scramble needs a sequel. ON THE VECTREX.

@suicidalparrot 15 жыл бұрын

hell YES for extended CGR theme music!

@monkeydollars 9 жыл бұрын

This brings back so many good memories. The best of which is the sound of Scramble which used to drive my parents insane.

@tomhertz1614 8 жыл бұрын

I had to get rid of mine back in the 80s because I was addicted .

@ggaaron5481 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourite games of all time

@Liberty309 3 жыл бұрын

I lost all of my Vectrex stuff along with the all the rest of my things in a house fire many years ago. I am now able to start getting my Vectrex stuff back. Scramble was my favorite game and I can't wait to be playing it again. :-)

@LottiDotti76 Жыл бұрын

I had one of these when I was a kid. I would love to get another one. I had damn near every game too. Such an awesome gaming system.

@shuteyebeats 15 жыл бұрын

lovin' the old CGR intro music.

@josephhertzberg2734 3 жыл бұрын

God, this brings back memories

@dkssoap 9 жыл бұрын

This was the first ever game i played...i used to be so good i could hug the bottom of the screen and just bomb everything. One of my all time favs....ahhh the memories

@iceblueni 8 жыл бұрын

Picking one up tomorrow. Looking forward to trying it out :)

@AGoat1971 4 жыл бұрын

Back when your channel was my favorite.

@sunelven 4 жыл бұрын

I played this in 1983 in a local video rental store in Finland, had soo much fun...

@AndroidAdvocate 14 жыл бұрын

man I am a call of Duty player but u brought the old school out of me . I got addicted by watching.

@sallyfarrugia7313 3 жыл бұрын

Played vetrex today. It was awesome. As awesome as i remember it being from my childhood.

@boutepe 2 жыл бұрын

I played this game like million times on my Vectrex as a kid. Seeing this makes me wanna get my old Vectrex out of my storage.

@hawkwardd_ 15 жыл бұрын

I love the glow coming off of everything! Great review! Pity I don't have a Vectrex lol!

@TheLastLineLive 15 жыл бұрын

I like that sound that it makes when you turn it out. That's how a video game should sound :)

@airborne501 5 жыл бұрын

Scramble is one of my favorite arcade games. I probably dropped $1500 of my parents quarters between 1981 and 1985. This port looks awesome.

@built2last31 8 жыл бұрын

this was my favorite game on the vectrex

@kennethfharkin 2 жыл бұрын

I loved my Vectrex. A couple years ago I was looking around my old basement while visiting my mom and asked where it had gone... she threw it out 😞 Scramble, Narzod, Rip Off, Solaris, Armor Attack, Cosmic Chasm, Blitz, Spike, Hyperchase, Berserk, so many great memories GONE.

@Liboo52 4 жыл бұрын

I love how Gradius and Metal Gear Solid 4 are used as examples of Konami games in the same sentence and held together in the same hand. Games from generations as different as those are rarely compared so casually.

@gtp_vexd3507 2 жыл бұрын

I am 31 years younger again.... Thankyou 😁

@melbournestud 12 жыл бұрын

1981. What a year. The golden age of video games. I used to play Scramble down at the Basketball Centre afer training or junior games plus whatever new arcade games were released like Donkey Kong, Dig Dug etc. Classics. At night time playing Scramble was awesome. 20c after 20 c. Things just didn't get better than since those early early days. Vortex I've never heard of. Prolly better than pinball though.

@-IFFTI- 15 жыл бұрын

My first touched arcade machine... Legend!

@spoung45a 14 жыл бұрын

Why did i watch this? I must buy a Vectrrex now! Thanks for giving me more ways to spend money i don't have!

@treksterjsc 7 жыл бұрын

This is my favorite game on my Vectrex. Just a note to Lord Karnage, your strategy on the final level is you need to push the ship all the way to the right and then come back down at an angle to hit them tight corners ...;)

@CheatingSoi 15 жыл бұрын

Vectrex is your favorite system. You mention it in almost every review nowadays,

@scooterahlers9362 9 жыл бұрын

Great port and best home port of Scramble, and it's nice to know that new games are still coming out for the Vectrex. Since 1998 the Vectrex has gotten GOOD ports of Frogger, Pac-Man, Defender, and Donkey Kong, among other games!

@CalDugalo 11 жыл бұрын

Just got my Vectrex with 8 games cant wait!

@Robster881 14 жыл бұрын

I love vectors. I want a Vectrex now. I know I'd barely play it. But I want one.

@Broken_Robot_ 15 жыл бұрын

The Vectrex is back with the ultimate gaming technology!!!

@erikthe10man 14 жыл бұрын

I still have this game! :)

@DraftMagic 13 жыл бұрын

I have an original Scramble machine, and this is a surprisingly faithful rendition. Trying to navigate the maze section without a working joystick sounds like it'd be impossible.

@JO-po4bo Жыл бұрын

A blast from the past

@GGHF 15 жыл бұрын

I love this guy! Keep up the good work Mark.

@GamerX89X 15 жыл бұрын

Great Review man! Watching your reviews are like acheiving an accomplishment.... so fresh and simple!

@sinclair1420 7 жыл бұрын

Awwww.. The 80's ... Makes me wanna watch "FAST TIMES AT RIDGEMONT HIGH" !!

@XshurikenXboy 13 жыл бұрын

The vectrex looks ridiculously awesome.

@sottozen 3 жыл бұрын

awesome! I want one of this!

@Immafirinmahlazer 15 жыл бұрын

The condition of that box is amazing.

@Retsler54 6 жыл бұрын

So great! I played it in the middle of the 1980s.

@theking21083 15 жыл бұрын

Great review Mark. Scrambe definitely is a fun and addictive game in the arcade and on the Vectrex.

@sinistermoon 15 жыл бұрын

Another awesome Vectrex review!

@fox25web 13 жыл бұрын

Damn, that game looks good!

@Lachlant1984 15 жыл бұрын

I like this game, I've never owned a Vectrex, but now I want one. I'm assuming these systems were available in Australia when they were new, but I wasn't even alive in 1982, so I don't know.

@Retrogamer71 15 жыл бұрын

So sharp, so phosphorescant, so arcade, so vectrex!

@Tristan.Suba.44 3 жыл бұрын

So 80’s ! 😋

@tidq 12 жыл бұрын

Ahh! There's an extended version of the old CGR theme song in this video! I've never heard anything other than the short version.

@eggbirdtherooster 7 жыл бұрын

so many memories

@anthonytompkins3205 3 жыл бұрын

I want a vectrex so expensive. So ahead of its time.

@infiad1275 6 жыл бұрын

I got to play one in the 80's courtesy of Pat, a friend of my dads. Left quite an impression.

@elmerion 15 жыл бұрын

This game looks hell fun, and the audio is excellent too, is incredible how messed up the sound effects can be in games nowadays

@tsreaves 2 жыл бұрын

OMG you just took me back to my childhood. It aost brought me to tears. How can I get one?

@Troglodyte 8 жыл бұрын

Love this machine.

@timabad 15 жыл бұрын

looks like a fun game. I'm impressed for a 1982 game.

@thayt1m 14 жыл бұрын

I need this @___@ Scramble, Berzek and Solar Quest LOOKS AWESOME!

@CarBitGTSaxen 12 жыл бұрын

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS, THEY ARE AWESOME

@notyoursavior78 15 жыл бұрын

Much love for the Vectrex! I like how Mark dances to the music with the controller at 2:38.

@leeosborne3793 Жыл бұрын

Boxes on chopsticks - haha! I always thought they looked like transistors. :)

@Adamchevy 9 жыл бұрын

Once again, just awesome!

@krissycat25 2 жыл бұрын

My brother's and I constantly played Vectrex

@XReflexian 3 жыл бұрын

Man, i remember playing on this thing ... specially liked the starwars game

@hashknight1 4 жыл бұрын

looks amazing...you guys are so lucky

@fogueman 9 жыл бұрын

I just had the chance to play Scramble on the vectrex. It´s a massive throwback to the past. I can´t agree more with the review, it´s a perfect sample of a simple idea expertly translated to the screen. A pure retro gem. I´m even looking for a Vectrex machine to buy just for this game.

@roffpoff8221 7 жыл бұрын

I played this game system day and night in mid 80's, my friend visited me more because this.......

@MrBrandon411 13 жыл бұрын

youre reviews are AWSOME!!

@WookhieManJoe 15 жыл бұрын

DejaVu i love this game i play this on my PSP all the time got it on a Modded PSP slim

@phosphor112 15 жыл бұрын

OMG Vectrex is aweome as hell.

@mbcaiost 4 жыл бұрын

Looks fun! Great review.

@Jinkinsonsasa 8 жыл бұрын

I had the vectrex, loved it. Somehow I broke the joystic and played it for years with the sharp piece of metal sticking out. Loved scramble and almost lost my mind playing it, lol. Unfortunately i sold the vectrex at a garage sale for $10 back in the mid 80s!

@urdnal 7 жыл бұрын

Sad thing is, you can unscrew the head from any RC joystick and screw it onto the Vectrex's

@thomascampr 9 жыл бұрын

Got vectrex when it first came out. Only one in my neighborhood. Bought it at TOY R US !!! Great game and came with the monitor. Finally had to return it parentscsaid I was addicted to it AND I WAS!!! It was that school thingy that I had to go to. Good times while they lasted. Great graphics.

@wwe2005 12 жыл бұрын

"pew pew pew pew", the way all lasers should sound and the vectrex gets it right! :)

@georgef551 14 жыл бұрын

You can see the vector graphics scanning, since it's not rasterized. (It's pretty much an Oscilliscope that plays games.)

@pibblesnbits 8 жыл бұрын

Innovative for the time. Cool stuff.

@sneasalmaster 15 жыл бұрын

Looks like a side scrolling Xevious... Awesome!

@vludi7857 7 жыл бұрын

Nice port, the level layout is pretty faithful to the arcade

@Wiibart 13 жыл бұрын

thnks for the vid, i have very good memories of this game and the Vectrex, too bad the company had problem that time

@Nettacki 15 жыл бұрын

Same here for the arcade classics collection on the GBA.

@Xonatron 14 жыл бұрын

this takes me way back even though i never played it, it reminds me of the early atari and ti-99/4a days where it was exciting just to see graphics and hear computer sounds from your tv....

@robross1992 14 жыл бұрын

Vectrex graphics look really nice

@sp4cepigz174 Жыл бұрын

Oh man 13 years ago 😮‍💨😵‍💫

@cessnaace 14 жыл бұрын

One of the cool things about the Vectrex is that it can pump out some serous volume. :) STAY AWESOME! :)

@JohnnyJohnW 13 жыл бұрын

I want one of these!

@amm1270 Жыл бұрын

I used to take the controler apart and use a stanless tie wire my dad had in the garage and make new springs for my controller.

@larjanus 14 жыл бұрын

I had this, one of the better Vectrex games. It ran in a loop, so that on completing a game you had to replay it, but with tighter corridors. After about the 4th or 5th game, the passages were smaller than the ship, so it was impossible to go any further! A great console though, and games like Cosmic Chasm, Fortress of Narzod and Spike were excellent.

@Alientraveler003 4 жыл бұрын

Never thought I’d See this

@vidium 15 жыл бұрын

that game makes my want to get the vectrex

@Noodles37UK 14 жыл бұрын

@YoungMoney4280 Vectrex was basic B and W on the screen. To make the game colorful they gave you a colored see- thru plastic sheet to place over the picture. It was as primitive as it was innovative Lol, and we loved it!