521: The Story Behind the Vectrex Mini - The Retro Hour EP521

I actually stopped myself when I'm telling the stories because it was all just kind of like I was a kid. I wasn't even a teenager yet. And I was like, oh, if I have, it was, there are things called like, people might remember these AOL, alternate AOL accounts, and you'd log in with these like codes that you traded for software. So you were pirating, they were probably stolen credit card numbers. And none of this mean like meant anything to anyone using it who was like my age 10 or 11, just waiting for the dial up signal to hit and then being like, Hey, is anybody want some of these stolen credit card numbers? It's also that I could download, you know, 5% of a game that would never work or something like that. But that's the experience that the internet began with for me. And so it was already from a place of darkness.

maybe go download that now wow you can um I know Disney don't take too kind to these things um but yeah I think you're right with the halo comparison especially with the grenade chucking and yeah um stuff like that it's it's it's got the weapons yeah obviously the weapons from what I see they seem to be quite traditional um assault rifles and stuff whereas I'd love to see some more kind of star warsy weapons I'm a I'm a tricer so I don't know what these things are you know what like like I say I really I really really love star wars but in terms of the the lore of the weapons I'm similar to you it's like it's lightsabers and everything else it's kind of just like laser guns um you know who appears very it's very standard like you say it's there's an assault rifle that shoots lasers there's a heavy machine gun that shoots lasers there's a shotgun

Now this is a prototype, a Chinese model, called TZMWX. You might remember, we did talk about this a while ago, when he made his own handheld Sega Saturn.

And it turned out to be a playable prototype of the game. And apparently the center has gone to like great lengths to stay anonymous, but apparently they've got a really deep knowledge of it.