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 ...

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 ...

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 ...