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 ...

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 ...

I'm fully aware that I have a basement full of crap, and, yes, to many eyes, my collection of crap really may be analogous to a firm, healthy turd, but if I accept this unpleasant analogy, then I'd ...

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 ...

Alongside the Commodores, Ataris, Nintendos, and all the other game systems of the 80s, there was a single unique video game system that stood out from the pack. This was the Vectrex, a console with a ...

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 may be the most innovative video game console you’ve never heard of. It had everything it needed to prompt a revolution, including controllers far more sophisticated than the competition ...

The 3D Imager, only three games were ever released for, to be used with the 3D Imager on the Vectrex system. The Imager was released early 1984. By the time the Imager was hitting the store shelves, ...

When The Vectrex arrived in 1982, it felt like it had beamed in from the future. Unique then – and still today – as the only home console with a vector display, it served up pin-sharp glowing graphics ...

In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's ...

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” ...