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+title: Milton Bradley Vectrex
+categories:
+- Consoles
+params:
+  name: Vectrex
+  image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_1s.jpg
+  logo: /media/museum/logos/mb_vectrex_logo.gif
+  company: /companies/milton-bradley
+  company_name: Milton Bradley
+  tabs:
+  - photos
+  - adverts
+  - hardware
+  - software
+  - emulators
+  - links
+  - videos
+  photos:
+  - title: CGE VECTREX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: The Vectrex was first marketed by CGE
+    image: /media/museum/photos/cge_vectrex_1.jpg
+  - title: MB VECTREX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This is a french model playing built-in game MineStorm
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_1.jpg
+  - title: SWITCHED OFF
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This system is switched off, and the its controller is stored at the bottom of the unit.
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_2.jpg
+  - title: CONTROLLER IS OUT
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_3.jpg
+  - title: SWITCHED ON
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_4.jpg
+  - title: REAR
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: At the back of the system can be found a brightness knob
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_rear.jpg
+  - title: RIGHT SIDE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_r-side.jpg
+  - title: CARTRIDGE SLOT
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: The cartridge slot is located at the right side of the system
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_cart-slot.jpg
+  - title: CARTRIDGE PLUGGED IN
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_cart-inserted.jpg
+  - title: CONNECTORS AND SETTINGS
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: What we see here are two controller connectors (up) and one reset button and one audio volume dial which also acts as a power switch.
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_connectors.jpg
+  - title: CONTROLLER
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: The Vectrex control pad is composed of an analog joystick and 4 buttons
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_controller.jpg
+  - title: CGE CONTROLLER
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/cge_vectrex_pad.jpg
+  - title: CGE JAPANESE CONTROLLER
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/gce_vectrex_jap-pad.jpg
+  - title: BANDAI JAPANESE CONTROLLER
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Controller of the japanese Bandai Vectrex
+    image: /media/museum/photos/bandai_vectrex_controller_1.jpg
+  - title: VECTREX & MAC
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Don't they look familiar ?
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_mac.jpg
+  - title: TWO PLAYERS
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: This a Vectrex playing Space Wars, a two players game...
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_2-players.jpg
+  - title: PLASTIC OVERLAYS
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: These color plastic overlays have to be placed in front of the screen for each game, thus enabling colorful playing !
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_overlays.jpg
+  - title: BOX
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/photos/mb_vectrex_box.jpg
+  adverts:
+  - title: FRENCH ADVERT (1984)
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: ''
+    image: /media/museum/pubs/mb_vectrex_pub_1.jpg
+  - title: US ADVERT
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: Thanks to Tim_K for this picture
+    image: /media/museum/pubs/vectrex_pub-high-perfomance-machine.jpg
+  hardware:
+  - title: PROTOTYPE
+    subtitle: ''
+    text: |-
+      This is the only picture of the computer prototype for the Vectrex. Specialists say that the keyboard pictured here was a mockup and that no Vectrex computer was ever ready to be sold.
+
+      The specifications however would have been : 66 key keyboard, 16 KB RAM upgradable to 64 KB, and a Basic cartridge.
+    image: /media/museum/hardware/mb_vectrex_computer_1.jpg
+  emulators:
+  - title: DVE - DOS Vectrex Emulator
+    url: http://www.arcadeathome.com/dve/
+    platform: MS DOS
+    text: Excellent DOS emulator
+  - title: VECX
+    url: http://www.valavan.net/vectrex.html
+    platform: Windows
+    text: another Vectrex emulator
+  - title: M.E.S.S.
+    url: http://www.mess.org
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: MESS also emulates Vectrex system !
+  - title: ParaJVE
+    url: http://vectrex-emu.blogspot.com/
+    platform: Multiplatform
+    text: Java emulator
+  links:
+  - title: Classic Game Creations
+    url: http://www.classicgamecreations.com/
+    text: New Vectrex games programmed by John Dondzila.
+  - title: FURY
+    url: HTTP://GEOVECTOR.TRIPOD.COM
+    text: New Vectrex games developped by George Pelonis, including War Of The Robots
+  - title: Game Asylum - Vectrex page
+    url: http://www.gameasylum.us/gcbrve.html
+    text: nice article with very interesting time line
+  - title: KRISTOF's Vectrex page for new games
+    url: http://members.lycos.nl/kristoftuts/index.html
+    text: New Vectrex games developped by Kristof Tuts
+  - title: playvectrex.com
+    url: http://www.playvectrex.com/
+    text: Very good site essentially focused on hardware projects related to the Vectrex
+  - title: Revival Studios
+    url: http://www.revival-studios.com/
+    text: Old systems developper, inlcuding VexOS and VexOS Basic and impressive demos!!
+  - title: Spike's Big Page
+    url: http://www.classicgaming.com/vectrex/
+    text: Excellent Vectrex ressource with big archive
+  - title: Vectrex Game Database
+    url: http://vgdb.vectrex.com/index.pl
+    text: A comprehensive list of Vectrex games, past, present and future
+  - title: Vectrex ressource center
+    url: http://www.losgatoscollectibles.com/vectrex/
+    text: games, manuals, overlays, links and more
+  - title: www.vectrex.co.uk
+    url: http://www.vectrex.co.uk
+    text: New resource for Vectrex Information
+  - title: www.vectrex.com
+    url: http://www.vectrex.com/
+    text: Mainly a list of relevant links
+  - title: www.vectrex.nl
+    url: http://www.vectrex.nl/
+    text: Very complete site with games for download, emus, articles, links, news, etc.
+  - title: www.vectrexnews.com
+    url: http://www.vectrexnews.com/
+    text: info and news about the Vectrex system
+  - title: Web Wiz CAPTCHA
+    url: http://www.webwizcaptcha.com
+    text: Vectrex dedicated newsgroup
+  videos:
+  - title: Vectrex TV commercial
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1KQ4i5oRrM
+    text: 'Length: 27 s'
+  - title: Vectrex - 80's Finnish TV Commercial
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTBKCFYFzEs
+    text: 'Length: 29 s'
+  - title: Gamebot presents the Vectrex!
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8oQxl8GEjo
+    text: 'Length: 3 min 33 s'
+  - title: Mine Storm (Vectrex) (How To Beat Home Video Games 3)
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbGRkdHPqlc
+    text: 'Length: 3 min 23 s'
+  - title: Scramble (Vectrex) (How To Beat Home Video Games 3)
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpYOy2qp9OI
+    text: 'Length: 2 min 37 s'
+  - title: Berzerk (Vectrex) (How To Beat Home Video Games 3)
+    url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzf3obuzslI
+    text: 'Length: 2 min 29 s'
+  comments:
+  - author: max the collector (planet earth)
+    date: Thursday 3rd February 2011
+    text: my freind has one of these. By the way you guys need to post the adventurvision
+  - author: Quentin Paszkowski (France)
+    date: Thursday 13rd August 2009
+    text: |-
+      The vectrex...what''s an unusual machine.\
+      I''ve bought it with 13 games and a strange dedicatd green and gray bag.\
+      It has 9 pocket for cartridge at the right, 1 for the plastics films in front, and 2 pocket for controllers at the left.\
+      And the middle is for carrying the console.\
+      It close by the top with a scratch band.\
+      The console by itself is an unique experience of playing.\
+      Can we imagine today a machine like this ?
+  - author: Father Fred (England)
+    date: Sunday 27th November 2005
+    text: My son moved out resently leaving an old Vectrex I pluged it in and it still works. I had never seen one before i was woundering how many were prodused. My son says he has som games somewere in storage. He did not think there were many made. He allso says he only paid £5 from a market stall.
+  - author: Danneman (Sweden)
+    date: Thursday 10th November 2005
+    text: Wow! I used to own a machine like this. I don't remember what happened to it but it's lost forever. A quite nice console.
+  - author: SKot Kirkwood (Houston, TX, USA)
+    date: Wednesday 26th January 2005
+    text: I broke the Vectrex out of storage recently, and after a tricky repair to the fourth controller button the other night, it is working great. And I've still got the touch... nearly rolled Mine Storm past the 13th level on the first try without even making a big effort.
+  software:
+  - /software/3d-crazy-coaster
+  - /software/3d-mine-storm
+  - /software/3d-narrow-escape
+  - /software/animaction
+  - /software/armor-attack
+  - /software/art-master
+  - /software/bedlam
+  - /software/berzerk
+  - /software/blitz
+  - /software/clean-sweep-also-known-as-mr-boston
+  - /software/cosmic-chasm
+  - /software/engine-analyzer
+  - /software/fortress-of-narzod
+  - /software/heads-up-action-soccer-also-known-as-soccer-football
+  - /software/hyperchase
+  - /software/melody-master
+  - /software/mine-storm
+  - /software/mine-storm-ii
+  - /software/polar-rescue
+  - /software/pole-position
+  - /software/rip-off
+  - /software/scramble-also-known-as-scramble-wars-jap
+  - /software/solar-quest
+  - /software/space-wars
+  - /software/spike
+  - /software/spinball-also-known-as-flipper-pinball-eur
+  - /software/star-castle
+  - /software/star-hawk
+  - /software/star-trek-the-motion-picture-also-known-as-star-ship-eur-harmagedon-jap
+  - /software/web-wars-also-known-as-web-warp-eur
+  oc_id: 1018
+  source:
+    url: https://web.archive.org/web/20230413211615/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1018
+    date: '2023-04-13'
+---
+
+Vectrex is one of the most inspired video game machines ever produced. Its point of distinction is the fact that it uses vector "line" graphics (as opposed to raster "pixel" graphics). This is the same type of screen used in such arcade classics as Space Wars, Asteroids, Battlezone and Tempest.
+
+The machine has a 9 x 11 inch black and white screen and comes with a built-in Asteroids clone called Minestorm. The games come with plastic overlays that slide over the screen to cut down on flicker and give some illusion of color.
+
+It uses an 8 bit processor, the 68A09 (6809 with 1.5MHz clock speed), and a popular (at that time) sound chip, General Instruments AY-3-8912, which can produce a wide range of noises. Also included is a 1.5 inch, self-centering, joystick with 4 buttons on the right. It uses an analog/potentiometer system allowing differing degrees of directional input.
+
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+
+Source : Vectrex FAQ