/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6478731
If you got it since the lock down started on Ebay in the uk I'm going to kill you.

>>6478731
https://youtu.be/a6FMpvs71pc

>>6478736
Wowie, nope! Not from eBay or in the UK

>>6478745
Thanks, friendo !

>>6478750
Lol. I've been trying to get one for weeks. Always get beaten on my bids, becoming a bit obsessed now. Good luck getting it back to good condition.

>>6478828
Boy do I know that pain, was looking for a few years before I found one at a price I was willing to pay. Thanks! Good luck in your continued search :^)

>>6478731
Is Vectrex an arcade, a computer, or a console?

I've got a vectrex, without a doubt the best 2nd generation video game console. Also has a very lively homebrew scene.

>>6478846
console

>>6478852
Super unique little device ! Unfortunately just came out at the wrong time with the crash.

>>6478731
Is it really worth risking your life to impress some strangers on the internet? Especially considering how flew years of that life you've lived?

>>6478846
18+

This thing runs games at an incredible framerate. Why arent we using vectors anymore instead of the pixel jew?

>>6478859
The video game crash is a meme. Its actually just console game crash.

>>6479282
>thing runs games at an incredible framerate
50 locked iirc
>Why arent we using vectors anymore instead of the pixel
we do use vectors everywhere these days.
>The video game crash is a meme. Its actually just console game crash.
Well yeah, consoles are games, at least the most important ones.

>>6479310
>at least the most important ones.
Cringe, bluepillled and reddit.

>>6479364
Don't you have some games to pirate and not play?

>>6478731
>Any help/advice on how to not electrocute myself?
don't plug it in, and switch it on when you plan to touch anything close to the anode cap. Other than that, some thick rubber dish gloves aught to be enough to keep you safe.
>Ever played any Vectrex games?
Tons. Got my hands on a Vextreme cart. It's still in it's infancy so many games dont work, but considering the tons of homebrew games there are, you can play on it for quite a while. I got a good kick out of Berzerk arena.
> General thoughts and opinions on the console ?
I genuinely think there would have been a follow up console had the market not crashed immediately after they pushed it to market. That and if they had gotten some stronger game developement. The original games are great, but the homebrew scene has shown me there's so much more to it.

I'm gonna share my library of vectrex roms with you guys because it's a pain in the ass finding all the homebrews I've found. I'm 100% sure this isn't even all of them. Some are locked behind paywalls (still), and others are dumped source codes, but I have no idea how to compile a source code into a vectrex bin file.
Anyway, if any of you guys happen to have a game bin that I don't, please let me know and share it.
Here's the link to what I got. Enjoy.
https://mega.nz/file/E9h1UI5R#HRXAivsmFzqtlfctELdn7DSToWvYtavuSUcVdcufEl0

>>6478846
It was going to be all three at one point.
There's a vectrex table top arcade cab.
It was primarily sold as a console.
Finally, one of the few peripherals they were gearing to push out before the whole project was scrapped was a keyboard adaptation for use with an 8 bit computer conversion kit that literally every console was doing back then. http://vectrex.playntradeonline.com/access.html
>>6479571
Little thing I forgot to mention. I know I'm missing a bunch of tiny little "demos" of music and maybe animation. They're intentionally not in my library because the vextreme only has a limited amount of space built into it. I'm just trying to say that I'm aware of those. I make exceptions for fun little tools like the vectrex clock, instruments, or whatever.

>>6479282
>Why arent we using vectors anymore instead of the pixel jew?
This whole timeline is a mistake man

>>6479310
>iirc
Recalled from what/when? Youtube last week?

>>6479272
Vectrex was already 20 years old 18 years ago you retarded boomer, and has always been an obscure console. Don’t pretend it’s something everyone knows about.

>>6479874
what?

I had a Vectrex and a bunch of games, sold it a long time ago at a garage sale. If you're going to open it up, watch out for this thing. Anode cap, can hold high voltage in there for months after being powered off.

>>6479882
Literally everyone except you knows about it zoomlet

>>6480081
that's hard to believe, especially on a old CRT, the capacitor should discharge due to it's internal charge leakage, hours yes, months - no way

>>6480081
>>6481142
It takes 2 seconds to discharge them anyway. Better safe than sorry.

>>6481149
true

I always wanted to try one of these out, but fuck paying the modern prices. I'd try one out in a heartbeat if I knew someone with one.

>>6481262
You know me, Anon. I brought mine to a party at Mo's one time and the spergiest sperg in the whole scene couldn't leave it alone. Wanna see his pic?

>>6480081
>that corona discharge
HISSSSS

>>6481546
You must have a very small dick. When I discharge me corona it sounds like a fire hose.

Was there a way to stop the anoying buzz?

>>6478859
That was mostly an Atari crash, though I could see it struggling with how retailers were perceiving vidya as a dying fad at the time.

>>6479272
Maybe be just wants a weird and unusual console to play with, you faggot nigger? If I find a weird and unusual gun I'll surely want to get it fixed if it's broken, so I can shoot it and experience it.
Do you not understand collecting?

>>6482201
Maybe you could add some shielding?

>>6482606
>maybe i can say random things about shit i dont understand
Maybe. We really need more of that around here.

>>6482660
I admit don't actually know anything at all about how the Vectrex works, I just remember reading here that the thing is noisy because there's no shielding between the cathode ray tube and the speakers.
Is that what's actually going on, and if so, could no such thing be improvised? Is there not enough space, or is there some other technical reason you can't do something like that?

>>6483394
Is basically because the amplifier is on the same board as the high voltage power supply that drives the xy monitor. You can just put in a new amplifier and isolate it better.

>>6482264
And maybe you're old enough to be here and totally not a larping 12 year old?

>>6479310
Where do we use vectors? The only place I can think of are laser shows and those get harder to find by the day

>>6484807
almost every ui element in software

>>6478745
>That Bjork

>>6485264
>i don't know so i'll type random words

>>6485603
>user interface
>software
>random words
not him but are you feeling alright anon? You hit your head pretty hard there.

>>6484527
The crash is exaggerated as fuck, consumers didn't notice it, and Atari took the brunt of it, where am I wrong, faggot?

>>6485642
>not him but copen for him
lol
It's ok anonlet. You bullshitted and now you're having trouble explaining yourself. Just google a little and you'll find some other fool who shitposted about something he didn't understand and you can copypasta his random words.

>>6486654
>anon can't read
a tragedy as old as time

>>6486027
>where am I wrong
The part where you replied to the person who wasn't talking about the crash? lrn2readingcomprehension kiddo

>>6486657
>anon must cope
a tragedy as young as you

>>6487130
What? You mean this >>6478859 person? Which I replied to in this >>6482264 post? Perhaps look at the reply chain before getting all huffy, perhaps it's time for new glasses.

>>6479282
Because vector graphics fucking suck for anything but really simple old arcade games. You can't really do games like Quake, Super Mario 64, or Heroes Of Might & Magic 3, with only solid monochromes and no kind of texturing or shading, it'll turn into a hideous eye raping mess.

Pixel Masterrace.

>6487798

BS. 32 brightness levels.

However, the 6809 microprocessor can't do a lot of work

I'm trying to resurrect also my own Homebrew game I started way back in 91 I believe. I always love star readers for the Atari 8-bit computer line and I always thought this would have been a dynamite port for the vectrex, so I started coding one using a cross compiler at an old Osborne computer which used a 6809 CPU. I was going to make it so that you had to turn the vectrex on its side to get a landscape but I determined this would be kind of foolish so all I did was just letterboxd it and one thing that was good about it is that old star Raiders would be poreus for the explosions of asteroids and enemy spacecraft because the processor would choke on the sudden three-dimensional data

However my best piece of memorabilia is the rare plug-in vectrex computer.


It uses a version of a 68000 CPU for Motorola but in my years of getting it working I ran into trouble is that it needs bubble memory of an obscure type. Luckily in talking with the restore at the Vintage computer Museum in Seattle it turns out that this was a version of memory that came later and he gave me a couple of known good modules to get it running. However there is though a static Rim problem and I'm not sure why that is but it looks like there is a damaged Trace somewhere in the board around one or two of the unsocket are chips so I'm going to at some point desolder them and put proper sockets in so it's easier to change them out

>>6487890
Ps part of my other 8 bit stuff. An Atari 800, Commodore 64 C, a bunch of disk drives, also two of the plotters from the Atari and commodore lines, in one drawer is a bunch of New Old Stock vectrix still in the shrink wrap boxes including the one Pac-Man clone that they did for a bar tie in promo,

>>6487804
Tempest, and others would look stupid as a pixel game

Going to play this

>>6479272
>Is it really worth risking your life to impress some strangers on the internet?
Is your life really worth anything?

>>6487902
I would sacrifice Tempest on an altar to retain Quake.

>>6487798
>doesn't look at the reply chain
>gets buttblasted
>tells others to look at the reply chain
lololol

>>6478731
I just received the fancy new UV overlay with the UV lightbox for the Veccy. Should I take pictures of it for here or is it a zoomer thing?

>>6486654
Good lord, what a retard.

>>6488026
>Good lord, I'm going to keep trying

>>6487996
>Super unique little device ! Unfortunately just came out at the wrong time with the crash.
>crash
>CRASH
>C
>R
>A
>S
>H

>>6478731
>Ever played any Vectrex games?

Yes but I was 13 so I don't remember any of it.

>>6489219
how do you not remember when you were 13?

>>6488359
>when you've coped so much you can't even remember what you're coping about
Jesus kid

>>6489228
i don't really remember what i did at 13 either

>>6489228
Some kids were siffing after girls, going out for sports or were simply apathetic

>>6489717
No, you hang up!

>>6490430
>no u
You didn't even say you love me yet you fucking faggot