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Drag the thumbstick to move. Press the four illuminated buttons for Vectrex buttons one through four. Multiple buttons can be held at the same time.

Playable Vectrex game

About Scramble

Fly through six hostile zones in Paul Newell’s Vectrex conversion of Konami’s influential side-scrolling shooter Scramble.

Collection
Games
Classification
Official library
Catalog year
1982
Programmed by
Paul Newell
Designed by
Konami arcade team (original game)
Publisher
GCE / Milton Bradley under license from Konami
Genre
Scrolling shooter, Arcade conversion
Players
1–2 players, alternating
Research confidence
verified
ROM editions
1
Browser controls
Keyboard, joystick, or gamepad

Development and history

Scramble originated as Konami’s 1981 arcade shooter and helped establish the side-scrolling shooting format. The Vectrex version was coded by Paul Newell and released in 1982.

Vectrex developer history places Newell within a small reverse-engineering effort intended to explore arcade conversions. Scramble became the released result, translating terrain, fuel depots, rockets, bombs, and a multi-stage run into a vector display.

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

Control altitude and speed while firing forward and dropping bombs. Destroy fuel tanks to replenish the constantly falling fuel gauge, pass through increasingly constrained terrain, and survive all six sections to attack the final base.

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.

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Research sources

Available editions

Primary edition Scramble (1982).vec
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