It appears that every great console is bound to get a miniature remake: we’ve had the PlayStation Classic, the Mini NES and SNES, and even a miniature Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. But one great console ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 is in no way the most popular console of all time, but it is one of the more unique. Eschewing typical raster-based rendering, it instead relies on a vector-based display. Since the ...

Members of Carnegie Mellon University’s computer club have somehow managed to not only obtain a working GCE Vectrex, but create an incredible 64K audiovisual demo on the obscure, 30-year old game ...

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 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 ...