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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 in the middle of building a tabletop arcade machine, which I will talk about more later but something came up when I was mucking with the software. I saw that the game emulator handled Vectrex ...

This week's thrifting adventures happened mostly by proxy. In the middle of recording another exciting installment of Game|Life The Video, I got a rare midday phone call from my parents in Connecticut ...

An iOS app replicating the 1982 ColecoVision console recently found its way to Kickstarter. Developer Rantmedia Games, the makers of the official Vectrex Regeneration app, is seeking $250,000 on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...