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Many of us have missed the VGDB - Vectrex Game Database since it disappeared more than six months ago. At the Vectrex Google Usergroup there was a long discussion of relaunching the website. Manu, the original founder sadly had no copy of the page but luckily there was a backup at webarchive.org. I got the permission by Manu to relaunch the page at vectrexmuseum.com

I host the page and usually a Museum preserves important data - so I thought about recovering the most missed Vectrex pages. Today the series starts with the relaunch of the updated Vectrex Game Database. Other lost pages will follow.

The problem with a webarchive backup is the strange data structure because the archive backups all new content of a page in a new folder. This results in hundreds of folders within folders and an increased MB size. The first backup was 250 MB in size (!), after reordering and -linking the content I could reduce it to 18 MB including ROMs, screenshots and manuals.

There has been an update to nearly every game entry, I list only the most important ones:

ROMs added for: Ronen´s Game Cart, Spike Goes Skiing, Animaction, Revector, Nebula, Astro Demo and others

Demo Videos for: Spike, Cosmic Chasm, Hyper Chase, Pole Position and the legendary "Scramble - How to beat Video Games"

Manuals for: Revector, Nebula, LOGO

Screenshots for: Spike Goes Skiing, Spike´s Circus, Thurst, Test cart, Astro Demo, LOGO and the legendary Android Graphics (animated)

Overlays various, i am looking for MESS / ParaJVE compatible Overlays for all games.
Thanks to Jeronen at www.vectrex.nl I add a collection of Overlays today, these are emulator compatible.

VGDB is now optimized for the view on mobile devices, you can now visit the page with your mobile phone or tablet-pc. A home icon and start screen for iPhones has been added.

VGDB submition form added to update and add new games. Programmers, please add missing games (only published ones) and check the data of your listed games. Please make any changes if needed. I tried to update the links as good as possible.

VGDB banner for your webpage and for games that have been listed in the database.

I invested four days in recovering the page and need a little rest - so I added a
Tell a friend function so you can easily spread the word about the new VGDB. Please help me by telling your five best Vectrex friends about the relaunched VGDB.

And now... the big moment we have been waiting for:

relaunch VGDB at http://www.vectrexmu...om/mirror/vgdb/

Have fun,

Oliver

Greetings and Happy New Year from VectrexMuseum!

I hope you had a good start into 2012 - the year of the 30´th anniversary of the Vectrex.

I am looking for Beta-Tester for a Vectrex related mobile web-application. I often use the mobile eBay version (and do not like it) on my iPod Touch to look for Vectrex collectibles while on the road. I wanted to have an easy way to search for my loved Vectrex gems. Here is the result: VecApp - if you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad or any other mobile device with a web-browser and Internet access - please be my Beta Tester.

Please start your smart phones mobile browser and got to www.vectrexmuseum.com/mobile
The web-app loads about 10 seconds.



I don´t want to talk to much about it - I want to know the questions you might have. Please take a few minutes and check out the application.

There is a contact function inside the app - it would be great if you could use this form for a short test mail. Please send your feedback and bug reports direct to my mail address curator@vectrexmuseum.com

If i have some strange English inside the app - please let me know - I am no native speaker. Please keep this among us before the final launch - the app is actually in Beta Test Phase.

Thank you for your time. Have fun,

Oliver - vectrexmuseum.com

ps: try to find the Easter Egg - figure out how to start a demo video for the Vectrex inside the app...