Playable Vectrex game
About Omega Chase
Play Christopher Tumber’s Omega Chase, a turn-of-the-millennium Vectrex homebrew preserved in multiple revisions.
- Collection
- Games
- Classification
- Independent / homebrew
- Catalog year
- 2000
- Programmed by
- Christopher Tumber
- Designed by
- Christopher Tumber
- Genre
- Action, Shooter
- Players
- 1 player
- Research confidence
- verified
- ROM editions
- 1
- Browser controls
- Keyboard, joystick, or gamepad
Development and history
VGDB credits Omega Chase to Christopher Tumber and dates the completed title to 2000. Vectrex collections often contain multiple builds, including final, deluxe, or trained variants, which explains the related entries and editions in preservation sets.
Tumber was one of several programmers expanding the Vectrex catalog around 2000–2002. His releases demonstrate how active development continued long after the console’s commercial cancellation.
This page uses one stable canonical URL for the title and loads its embedded ROM directly into the emulator after the Vectrex BIOS is ready.
Gameplay and background
The game is built around arcade-style pursuit and shooting. Use movement and the four-button mapping to learn enemy patterns and the differences between the preserved revisions.
How to play in Vectrexia
- Move with the Arrow keys or WASD. Compatible controllers can use the left analog stick or D-pad.
- Vectrex buttons 1–4 map to Z, X, C, and V, and to the standard face buttons on most gamepads.
- Press a controller button after connecting it so the browser can expose the gamepad to the page.
Audio may begin after the first click, key press, or controller input because browsers can restrict autoplay.
Research sources
Available editions
Alternate dumps and revisions share this canonical page to avoid duplicate search pages. Choose a specific edition from the in-app Library.