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 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 ...

The Vectrex is a rare beast in the world of retro video games. Introduced in 1982, this was the only video game system to put a monitor right in the console, and it did so for good reason. This was a ...

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 ...

Although it wasn’t the first to do it, Nintendo certainly brought a renaissance to miniaturized throwback consoles with its NES and SNES Classic Editions, which then inspired miniaturized versions 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” ...

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 ...