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Question about Mine Field (on Vectrex) [message #40309] Sat, 02 March 2013 22:09
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Date: Fri, 22-Jul-83 09:24:01 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 22 09:24:01 1983
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A question for people with Vectrexes.

In the game Mine Storm, the one that comes built-in, there are thirteen fields
described in the instructions.  I never thought I'd be able to, but I got past
the thirteenth finally.  When I did, some strange things happened.  For one,
the game skipped field fourteen completely and went straight to fifteen.
Fifteen and sixteen had the strange space dust barely mentioned in the
instruction booklet.  After sixteen, when I was at my record high score, it
went back to field one!  This wouldn't be that unexpected, but my score was
also reset to zero, and I was back to my starting quota of ships.  It did
save my score from field sixteen as the high score but I basically had just
started a new game.  Is this how it is supposed to work?  If so, why no big
fanfare after making it to the end?  Why does it skip fourteen?  Has anyone
else gotten this far?

For the answers to these and other exciting questions, mail to:

Ed Pawlak
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