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 ...

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 ...

The early 80s was a very interesting time for gaming. Arcades were sprouting up everywhere, affordable home computers were emerging, and Atari was seemingly dominating the game console market with its ...

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 ...

The Vectrex was a unique console from the early 1980s. Developed by a company you’ve probably never heard of—Smith Engineering—it was put into production by General Consumer Electronics, and later ...

Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white ...

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 ...

It probably wouldn't have progressed in the same way, because vector graphics are sharply limited in terms of complexity. The way a normal CRT works is panning left to right, top to bottom, with the ...

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 ...

ha the Vectrex was amazing, I had a friend with one in the mid-80s. Being able to play arcade vector games like Asteroids, Tempest and Battlezone (or at least nods to them) was really something. In a ...