Watch Travis Landry’s appraisal of a 1982 Vectrex arcade system with 3D imager & games in North Carolina Museum of Art, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App ...
For Hackaday readers which might not be so well versed in the world of home video gaming before the 1983 crash, the Vectrex was an interesting attempt at bringing vector graphics into player’s living ...
The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to the screen by drawing them ...
In October 1982, General Consumer Electronics (GCE) released the Vectrex for $199. The Vectrex wasn't just your average game console, however, and even to this day there has never been a videogame ...
It’s becoming clearer now that most old consoles and computers are ripe for a remake. From handhelds to mini versions of things such as the Commodore 64 or Spectrum, everything seems to be making a ...
I was a teen in the 80s and never had a Vectrex, but did spend way too much time in arcades. Asteroids, Battlezone, Lunar Lander, and Tempest were the games that consumed any extra time I had. I might ...
The Vectrex Entertainment System hit the market during the late boom of the early eighties home console era. Packed with a built in monitor and a joystick with four buttons, the Vectrex system used ...
Finishing up your backlog is usually discussed as an act of time; these games are kept around until we have the free weekend necessary to finish them before moving them over to the mental “finished” ...
Anybody who played on classic cabinets like Asteroids or Lunar Lander in the arcades knows that those games’ unique, glowing-line graphics were impossible to replicate on standard TV video game ...