Let’s take some time to go back a few years, maybe a few decades. To a time which consoles where quite interesting and very retro! The year is 1983 and the Vectrex has now washed onto store shelves. An interesting little 8-bit console which wasn’t connecting itself to any television or monitor you owned. No it had its eyes on its built in vector monitor which of course has vector graphics- great? Maybe.

Another devious little ploy in the Vectrex was the fact it couldn’t really display colours. So you had some plastic sheets which had colour overlays on it. You pretty much sit these on top of the screen and now your game has gone from ugly to colourful!

Each game had its own plastic sheet, and the Vectrex was quite an arcadish console. What is great is I have one of these babies, which hopefully still works, but when I was young it was a console relic then. Now it’s a dinosaur, but underneath its raw hard shell is a console which has some quite interesting games.

One of those is Hyper Chase.

A game for a second generation monster which somehow found itself into my home, the carts lying around under boxes and the console sitting waiting for it to be turned on again.

But to play it again would be a crime, the memories which have developed especially of Hyper Chase should be forever.

It wasn’t the most charming retro game, and decades later feels dated and unwanted, but it still has a charm which doesn’t hinder the game.

It’s plastic screen giving the game a green glow, cars flying everywhere and your following a road which sometimes has various obstacles, for the most part it’s a straight flat road, which occasionally would move over towards the left side of the screen, or the right.

It had some amazing animations, okay it’s a simple crashing sound and animation which has appeared in previous titles of that generation. But no doubt for a car game, seems humorous.

It’s meant to be a race, but for you unless you dig out the manual, it could be a road out in the middle of nowhere. What you have to do is avoid the edges, cars and other obstacles. Sounds easy? Well maybe it is, maybe it’s not but it’s one amazing game.

The controller for the Vectrex was something interesting, and for retro enthusiasts would be quite simular of pads of the time. A row of buttons and a Joy Stick or D-Pad.

The game is shows decently what a prequel of Need For Speed of this era would be like, it’s interesting to play and shows off the console well. As for the Vectrex its now probably one of the longest supported consoles, its game line up according to Wikipedia is disappointing, but that list of homebrew which continues over the decades, now that’s amazing.