love Vectrex Roli's latest but have a game question

[ComputerSpaceFan]

Hey Vectrex Roli! I am loving your channel and your latest video had me chuckling away as always. I am intrigued by the Firefox, never heard of it before. The game looks sweet but I don't understand Level 2. What are the weird red things flying toward your spaceship? Blocks to be avoided? I don't get it.

 

But I'm pretty sure I'm going to look for one of these machines, it looks awesome!

 

 

[robotwo]

The thing with these kinds of segmented displays is that they tended to have large well defined images instead of smaller parts/ patterns.

So for some games it would require them to re-use the patterns in creative ways.

 

It's obvious that the red patterns are the explosion frames for the ships, but I'm not quite sure either what kind of in-game imagery they're supposed to portray on the second level.

I would imagine it's something like a low flying sequence where you're trying to avoid some forms of rock formations.

 

For some reason I always keep comming back to a game that keeps comming back in Ashens' Popstation reviews, which is a fighting game where the frames of animation for the arms and legs are re-used as projectiles.

Edited May 17, 2014 by robotwo

[vectrexroli]

Hey Vectrex Roli! I am loving your channel and your latest video had me chuckling away as always. I am intrigued by the Firefox, never heard of it before. The game looks sweet but I don't understand Level 2. What are the weird red things flying toward your spaceship? Blocks to be avoided? I don't get it.

 

But I'm pretty sure I'm going to look for one of these machines, it looks awesome!

 

 

Thanks, well I guess what you mean should be "asteroids" and as robotwo already said they had to re-use what was there. I think it must have been pretty hard to design a multi level game with one single display like that.