For Hackaday readers which might not be so well versed in the world of home video gaming before the 1983 crash, the Vectrex was an interesting attempt at bringing vector graphics into player’s living ...

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 ...

Finishing up your backlog is usually discussed as an act of time; these games are kept around until we have the free weekend necessary to finish them before moving them over to the mental “finished” ...

In case the CRT monitor-replicating Blinky app and our best retro gadgets for Christmas haven’t sated your appetite for things from the past, you can now glide back to the early 80s with the Vectrex ...

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 ...

When The Vectrex arrived in 1982, it felt like it had beamed in from the future. Unique then – and still today – as the only home console with a vector display, it served up pin-sharp glowing graphics ...

Retro heaven: Vectrex is on its way to the iPhone and iPad. Vectrex, the sent-from-the-future vector-based games console from 1982, is soon to come to iOS. The Vectrex Regeneration emulator, complete ...

Anybody who played on classic cabinets like Asteroids or Lunar Lander in the arcades knows that those games' unique, glowing-line graphics were impossible to replicate on standard TV video game ...

Hackaday editors Mike Szczys and Elliot Williams explore the coolest hacks of the past 168 hours. The big news this week: will Wink customers pony up $5 a month to turn their lights on and off?

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 ...