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It was pointed out to me that shipping to Germany and Canada had stopped working... I've deleted and redone all of the postage setup in ECWID (website back end) and all seems to be working ok again now...

Of the 136 Vyrzons I've sold so far I've sent 16 to Germany and not had any issues reported. I use Royal Mail and put the correct item value and other details on the customs slip... I know that people using other couriers have had parcels returned to them after several months without being delivered.

I will only be doing a clamshell version of Vyrzon; with Frontier and Quartz's Quest in print and in cardboard boxes I have neither the space or money to stock another game's worth of printed cardboard boxes along with plastic cart trays and box protectors. When all the overlays are gone it will be a simple clamshell release like Big Blue has become... that is the destiny of all of the games I do which I think is preferable to discontinuing them. 😎

As Minsoft have now finished their full boxed production of Vyrzon (just shy of 400 copies) I am pleased to say that Vector Republic have now taken over publishing of this amazing game with a clamshell version... you can find details and order from www.vectorrepublic.co.uk 👾👾👾👾 👾👾👾👾 👾👾👾👾

Greetings! Thought i'd just put an overdue update in this thread as I released a budget clamshell version of Big Blue now that all of the final original boxes etc. are definitely now found, made, and sold Full boxed with overlay versions of Frontier and Quartz's Quest are still available for now. https://www.vectorrepublic.co.uk/Big-Blue-Clam-Shell-Edition-GCE-US-Style-p523480952

Cheers guys, am shipping out in a day normally atm and post generally seems to have sped up a bit

A very affordable PCB and label version by Andrew Coleman shipping from the UK: http://vectrex.playntradeonline.com/

The game is £39 and postage, which is auto calculated against Royal Mail for International Tracked, is coming out about £18.

Nice one, glad it arrived safely

Thanks guys, I really enjoyed the game, hence why I got in touch with the author to offer to publish an enhanced version. We've added silver ink to the packaging this time too so it's the most authentic looking boxes we've ever done

The game Quartz's Quest has been updated and enhanced and is now available from www.vectorrepublic.co.uk Available as a "name your own price" rom from denebola-interactive.itch.io/quartzs-quest/ it has had a number of additions and enhancements and given the Vector Republic physical release treatment :) A quick list of the improvements/additions in this physical version over the "name your own price" digital version that came out a couple years back: - A number of gameplay balancing changes to enhance the challenge and improve the difficulty curve as well as replayability - Many graphical enhancements and additions to both the overworld and the dungeons - A custom fantasy style font added to replace the system font - Optimised text routines to eliminate flicker and slowdown on text heavy screens (by the genius that is Malban!) - Original music added to the title page composed by Jon Bennett who did the Frontier music - Interface improvements in shops to avoid buying inferior kit - Text changes and corrections as well as formatted better to work with the overlay - Bug fixes

Hi, BinaryStar is right, there's no Bank Switching (or anything clever!) going on in Big Blue; just BIOS calls to set intensity... I set intensity generally at the lower end of things so on the odd Vectrex it requires the brightness to go a bit higher but mostly it's fine as is (it's ok on all 7 of my test machines). In Frontier I went a bit higher with the intensities in general. Cheers, Chris

Website now updated and ordering underway... already 128 copies sold! https://vectorrepublic.co.uk/

Cheers Amazingly, Big Blue has sold 482 copies in its various guises.

Fantastic work, that looks great! Also interested if you decide to make a run of these.