Vic1001 game list

[Kakemoms]

I found this page while looking for something completely different:

http://www43.tok2.com/home/cmpslv/Typvic/Typvic.htm

Many games with screen shots. I don't understand japanese and couldn't find any download links. There are several games I haven't seen before, but then I am not very into gaming. Can anyone else here look through the list and see if there is something new there?

[hasseapa]

Zena, the multi color game, stands out a bit. It actually looks like a Xevious clone!

Dirty Climber looks like the Crazy Climber clone I had on a tape with a lot of copied games.

[Mayhem]

Nice find... I don't recognise most of those!

[Schema]

Cool find. No downloads?

I see references to "WAV-PRG" which isn't exactly encouraging

[Tony Mokonen]

I ran the site through Google Translate, and the translation was pretty rough. These games appear to be type in programs from some sort of magazine, which Google translates as "BASIC Magazine". I think it might be a reference to Mycom BASIC Magazine, as described on this site:

https://akaobi.wordpress.com/2014/11/05 ... ore-japan/

Here's a listing of VIC-1001 programs published in BASIC magazine:

http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bm/pr_vic1001.htm

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any sort of program source code, or .tap/.d64 files containing these games.

[Kakemoms]

I ran the site through Google Translate, and the translation was pretty rough. These games appear to be type in programs from some sort of magazine, which Google translates as "BASIC Magazine". I think it might be a reference to Mycom BASIC Magazine, as described on this site:

https://akaobi.wordpress.com/2014/11/05 ... ore-japan/

Here's a listing of VIC-1001 programs published in BASIC magazine:

http://s-sasaji.ddo.jp/bm/pr_vic1001.htm

Unfortunately, I cannot seem to find any sort of program source code, or .tap/.d64 files containing these games.

Interesting reading about the Japanese Commodore!
I found some more info on the Basic magazine here: http://www.retro-game.net/retro-pc-maga ... ne_198203/

[Kakemoms]

I emailed Enri, the Japanese that has the home page with the screen shots (top post). Today he sent me a zip file with all the type-in games he had. Very nice of him!

I have attached the zip file.

Enjoy.

VIC1001.zip

(569.13 KiB) Downloaded 350 times

[orion70]

Now this is great news
I'll try them ASAP. Nice find!

[Mayhem]

Great, shall try to remember to grab this for GB20...!

[orion70]

Tried them... personal best, TIME TRAVEL [3k].
I made a (roughly translated) English version of the manual, enjoy

There are not only “real time” games for the VIC-1001…
How about trying to create programs such as adventures and simulations?

[Mike]

Zena, the multi color game, stands out a bit. It actually looks like a Xevious clone!

I had seen the game as NicoNico video a few years ago and always had wondered about it.

Then, a few days ago, I found out that it had been published as type-in listing in a Japanese computer magazine, PiO issue 11/1985. archive.org has the issue archived and I even thought about typing it in ... thankfully it is contained in the *.TAP archive Kakemoms asked from Enri.

I lifted the game from the TAP and exomized it, so it can simply be started with LOAD and RUN: (download)



+3K RAM expansion required.

Controls:

S ^= GAME START
: ^= LEFT
; ^= RIGHT
SHIFT ^= FIRE

For all intents and purposes this is a true port of the Xevious arcade! The intro tune, the (only slightly annoying) background whistle tune, the flight over an extended landscape, and the iconic saucer enemy are all there. The smaller enemies make a good job aiming their shots at you. It even features an attract mode (see screenshot above)! About the only thing missing is the bomb as secondary weapon, the shots double up for that.

Greetings,

Michael

[orion70]

Now this makes me want to reinstall my VIC setup on the desk!

[hasseapa]

I lifted the game from the TAP and exomized it, so it can simply be started with LOAD and RUN: (download)


For all intents and purposes this is a true port of the Xevious arcade! The intro tune, the (only slightly annoying) background whistle tune, the flight over an extended landscape, and the iconic saucer enemy are all there. The smaller enemies make a good job aiming their shots at you. It even features an attract mode (see screenshot above)! About the only thing missing is the bomb as secondary weapon, the shots double up for that.

Wow, it's Xevious alright and it's not half bad! The music gives it away just as clearly as the graphical style.

While obviously jerky, it is very fast and responsive. Enemy patterns are varied and I could hardly believe my eyes when the iconic boss saucer appeared after a wave of rotating mirror-like enemies. While much, much smaller than the arcade original, it still looks better than the mess of expanded sprites that is in the C64-version.

Besides the bombs, it lacks vertical movements, but enemy positions & movements are designed with that in mind. It plays like a compressed demake of Xevious.

The background graphics also vary and are very competently done. The pioneering use of colorful highlights and shadows (à la beveling and drop shadows) has been somewhat successfully transferred with a very pleasant color scheme.

While it is surprisingly easy to discern both enemies and shots over the busy background graphics, it is easy to understand that we had dozens of Scramble clones for horizontal shooters, but only pre-Xevious vertical shooters with mostly empty space as background, although Xevious is almost as old as Scramble and they are both very influential forefathers of the respective scrolling shooter genre. I guess Xevious is even more legendary in Japan so it figures that it took a Japanese home developer to give it a go.

This must, by far, be the most impressive type-in game I have ever seen on Vic.

[orion70]

Here's a complete collection from a Japanese mag, including Zena: http://www.vic20listings.freeolamail.co ... io_jp.html

It's also downloadable in a single D64.

All games are worth trying, very professionally made.

[Ola H]

This is just unbelievably good for a type-in game Heck, it is unbelievably good for a commercial +3K game. It captures the visual and aural essence of a state-of-the-art 1983 arcade game in a way that is perhaps unique on the Vic.

Oh boy, imagine this as a +16K game with smooth scrolling and more levels... Drool!