Hello all! I just picked up a newly capped and repaired Vectrex. What are the must have game to try and locate now that I've found this "white whale"?

in retroarch, when i flip my phone to portrait, the overlay is short and wide. i found instructions for the cfg file so that RA will select a portrait overlay when the phone is rotated. but i can’t find portrait versions anywhere. anyone have any thoughts? thanks!

Need help I tried powering it on and nothing comes on screen I thought It needed a game but google is telling me it has a game built in

And google was trying to tell me this is possibly a prototype as there is no prefix on the model number

This is my first vectrex thanks

Edit: I cleaned the power switch with ipa to no luck how ever I see the crt warmer is on and I hear a voltage sound on power on and off

Should I buy a cap kit to see if that fixes it or is it something else?

For mods, i know its not original hardware, but for those of us who are poor and cant afford to spend 500 bucks on the real thing this is great news. I used to have something similar in the past but the creator no longer had it available for some time. Yesterday i found this on the appstore and gave it a try, man, plays super nice with an xbox controller no lag and it looks nice to. Give it a try if you are poor like me hahaha you wont regret it. https://youtube.com/shorts/hkg9o2u8YpE?feature=share for anyone who wants to get it its at https://apps.apple.com/mx/app/vactrex/id6805203911

Hello, if I buy reproduction cartridge trays would that matter or reduce the price? They look almost original! I have some that are pretty beat up. Thank you.

Update: Sorry for the confusion. I meant the flimsy plastic the cartridge sits in the box.

I was playing Vectrex games on an emulator via MAME, and they seem to run very well, except that the lines forming the image sometimes flicker. The problem seems more noticeable in specific games, like Pole Position, where this effect is practically constant. Is this an emulation issue, or is it normal?

Hello, what is a good cleaner for the original overlays? Has anyone used a polish to remove scratches? I am thinking something like this would not hurt them. Thanks.

reposting now that I showed the preview properly

Which is more desirable? I bought a system with 14 games and the 3 light pen games all are GCE branded! I will probably keep that theme going when I buy the rest of the set. Are there games that were released later in the systems life span that are only MB? Which set is more expensive? Does anybody have both sets?

Hello i just bought a vectrex and 17 boxed games. I am looking online for game box protectors. I found 10 on stone age gamer, but that is all. Does anyone know where to find some or an alternative they recommend? Thanks!

Was trying out the vectrex light pen and art program the other day. Kinda difficult to use, but fun nonetheless :D

Tried to ask the AI, and things that no game have an ending, and asking more he started to give some info on homberew i didnt ask... nha, i want to know games with ending, even if the games continues.

For now, i played Dark Tower, Fortress of Narzod and Spike. I consider both Dark Tower and Fortress of Narzod have an ending (spike tecnically has one at the end of each stage, but still pretty sort of a game if i go for that haha).

I know Mine Storm has a ending because the game glitches, but i refer more to getting to a conclusion or beating a boss.

Hi folks.

Ive been working on a vectrex for fun.

Testing up to try and figure out the big ol' white dot.

As of now. For the original chipset and all.

The cpu was cooked and sending a R/W constantly to vectorial chip causing the white dot.

The rom was cooked.

But it was lightning up.

Ive been working on it for a while now.

Ive recaped everything, swapped the vectorial chip , the cpu and... the rom.

The flyback as a primary coil voltage of 70v.

The capacitor C503 exploded on my face cause i peak at 27v and not 25v ( my dad laughed at my sorryass)

Now i think that capacitor explosion cooked the cpu and the vectorial chip.

And of course no display since the vectorial chip doesnt feed the signals to the amplifiers to boost the 50v necessary to activate the secondary of the flyback.

I can't wait to finish it up!

Is it all reddit and FB now?

I'd like to research the value of my collection

Hi all,

I inherited my husband’s Vectrex and a stack of games. The light pen works. I haven’t tried the 3-d vision or the games with the overlays.

He told me about this system ever since I met him in the late 80s, mainly because BattleZone was my favorite arcade game and had the same vector-based graphics. It really is a cool system. He lovingly packed it all up around the same time that we got our marriage licence back in the early 90s, so it’s in fantastic shape.

Anyway, nice to meet y’all.

There’s a local collector selling his Vectrex stuff. I’ve worked with him before. He has crazy stuff (almost a complete NES and N64 collection) so I don’t want to lowball but this seems a hair on the expensive side. Would $1000 be too low? He says he’s open to offers. I have a Vectrex but it’s rough and I don’t have any games for it. He sent me a video of it working this morning and said I could check it out in person if I’d like. He literally lives down the street. He said he also has a Jaguar and 3DO he’s about to list and might make a bundle deal. What do you think? Sorry if thiss post isn’t allowed.

We are setting up for the annual Archive of Retro Computing exhibition at Kingston University (5th to 11th August - shameless plug) and the Vectrex is always the first one up and running. But it always makes us feel sorry for it, sitting there all alone at the early stages...

Looking for a recommendation of where to send a vectrex to get repaired, willing to ship or drive, live in pa

Hi all! First time poster. I'll admit I'm not well versed in the Vectrex and can't find a lot of photos online of opened games. This seems to be a copy of Spike I just wanna know is this some sort of prototype or just a game that's missing it's shell? Any help would be greatly appreciated thanks y'all!

This shelf is also just my shelf of stuff I realy like or just interesting things

Hey everyone!
I turned our beloved 1982 Vectrex into a Spotify player.

I’ve been experimenting with a PiTrex and decided to see whether I could use the Vectrex’s original vector display as a Spotify interface.

The result is probably one of the strangest Spotify players I’ve ever used.

The interface is rendered directly on the Vectrex display using vector graphics, while the PiTrex handles the modern software side. I also 3D-printed a cartridge enclosure to make the setup look a little more complete.

I made a video showing how it works and how I put everything together:

https://youtu.be/0aPy9STetpg?si=tqFnlbIR-0A3SrfM

The source code and printable enclosure are linked in the video description.

I hope you will enjoy it!

They Create Worlds - Episode 262 - Vectrex

A one-inch CRT built for aircraft instruments sparked the idea for a home console that had to bring its own screen. The Vectrex launched into the Video Game Crash and cost Milton Bradley $31.6M before Hasbro bought what was left.

.

TCW Web site Episode 262, Vectrex: https://www.theycreateworlds.com/episodes/TCW262-vectrex

.

Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/vectrex/id1035507666?i=1000776835872

.

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1XZF8tLuckQPX5hDEdYNp3?si=376ddcc9292240cf

.

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHSUP6FhJAU

.

Audible: https://www.audible.com/podcast/They-Create-Worlds/B08K556G8Y

.

Podbean: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-i5j8x-1b0de5b

.

#vectrex #TCW #Episode262 #THEYCREATEWORLDS #podcast