The game begins with a large enemy ship dropping mines onto the field as an ominous jingle plays, and moves from the top to the bottom of the screen, where it disappears. The player's ship starts in the middle of the field with 5 lives. Numerous mines then start popping up. The player must destroy all of the mines in order to progress to the next minefield. All of the mines can be destroyed with one shot, or hit with the player's ship, costing the player a life. There are 4 types of mines.
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This was the game that I got to play on the Vectrex in a museum. Still my dream hardware to have, I loved it
Asteroids variant, but with cool visuals.
There’s only like three people on Backloggd that own a Vectrex?! Ya don’t say!
I bet the people at GCE in 1982 were asking themselves “how are we gonna get that mega hit Asteroids on our actual vector video game system?” Atari had the rights of course, it was their game, and they were untouchable at that point in time. Well, the devs at GCE answered with Mine Storm.
So what differentiates this from Asteroids is that you’re blowing up mines that some jerk in a spaceship leaves behind. The mines that are planted don’t all expand to full size immediately, so you can’t just stay in the center of the screen like you can in Asteroids. Occasionally, the jerk that planted the bombs will fly out in his ship and you can blow it up.
Given how expensive the Vectrex was at the time, I could see this being the only game the couple thousand people that actually had the console owned, as it was built into the unit. And it’s a pretty good one, especially if you like Asteroids.
I bet the people at GCE in 1982 were asking themselves “how are we gonna get that mega hit Asteroids on our actual vector video game system?” Atari had the rights of course, it was their game, and they were untouchable at that point in time. Well, the devs at GCE answered with Mine Storm.
So what differentiates this from Asteroids is that you’re blowing up mines that some jerk in a spaceship leaves behind. The mines that are planted don’t all expand to full size immediately, so you can’t just stay in the center of the screen like you can in Asteroids. Occasionally, the jerk that planted the bombs will fly out in his ship and you can blow it up.
Given how expensive the Vectrex was at the time, I could see this being the only game the couple thousand people that actually had the console owned, as it was built into the unit. And it’s a pretty good one, especially if you like Asteroids.