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 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 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 ...

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 ...

Armor Attack was one of the early releases for the Vectrex Entertainment System back in 1982. Controlling a Jeep in a war-torn town, you must drive to survive and shoot enemy tanks and helicopters. It ...

Building and modifying game systems has long been a staple of the DIY community. But have you ever tried creating a retro gaming system with an oscilloscope? People deeply embedded in the history of ...

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” ...

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 ...