Ultra Rare Vectrex Repair -- Episode 346

Matt — Fri, 08 Jun 2018 07:24:00 GMT

Current Revision posted to Documents by Matt on 6/8/2018 7:24:00 AM

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Ben’s got his hands on a Vectrex console from 1982 and a rare 3D peripheral, one of the rarest video game items in existence, a Vectrex 3D imager. The Vectrex was a vector display-based home video game console from 1982. In 1984 it became the first home console to have a 3D peripheral which not only colorized but made the graphics 3D.

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Unlike other non-portable video game consoles, which connected to televisions and rendered raster graphics, the Vectrex used an integrated vector monitor to display vector graphics. It was monochrome and used plastic screen overlays to simulate color and various static graphics and decorations. The Vectrex console requires new capacitors and the Vectrex 3D imager will require Ben to recreate the spinning disc required for it to work.

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Episode 346: Ultra Rare Vectrex Repair

tariq.ahmad — Fri, 13 Jul 2018 13:42:57 GMT

Revision 1 posted to Documents by tariq.ahmad on 7/13/2018 1:42:57 PM

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