GCE Vectrex

Could the Vectrex have had a bigger catalog of games if it had been made earlier, before the crash?
Discuss this console, it's games and other vector graphics/artstyle vidya

The Vectrex has always fascinated me since it's so one-of-a-kind for a home console. I can't say how well it would have fared had it been made with more time prior to the crash, I wasn't even born yet. I do think it would be cool to get my hands on one, or at the very least try it myself for a short time. It looks like it costs between $200-300 on ebay right now, not a terrible price for an old vidya collector's item.

Only fucking hipsters like shit like amiga and vectrex. You know that era was too soon for good vidya. Before NES and good IBM pc games there were no good vidya.

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You don't even know what the Amiga line was, shut your piehole.

There's a vectrex set up at my shop, it's a really impressive piece of technology. I've been learning a lot about how CRT works and it's clearly taking really firm advantage of that. The games play incredibly smoothly too. You need to play it on the real system, emulation will not give you a remotely desirable experience.

How's the homebrew scene? How are the flashcarts for it?

there's some chinese like, 79-in-1 cartridges. They're a little expensive but I think that's your best bet for getting a flash cart type system going. They also have homebrew on them.

The console that is responsible for the video game crash?

Typically, in the context of home consoles, there is two distinct eras the "Pre-NES era" and the "Post-NES era" like it or not, the NES influenced the entire home console industry in a major way with Nintendos licensing policies and marketing technique never seen before. Before the NES was pretty much the primitive, primordial era of home consoles before people figured out how to make them competitive with Arcades