> I had Sears Pong, 2600, 5200, C64, then NES and onward. I knew a couple of people who
> owned a Coleco. I've never known anyone with an Amiga or Vectrex. I had never even
> heard of Vectrex until the internet but I did used to drool over the Amiga game
> displays at the mall.
I still have the Vectrex (in working condition, surprisingly) that I received for Christmas in 1983. This was the one dedicated gaming platform that I owned until I started collecting them as an adult, and it was really a great system. Gameplay was generally good (though some of the games were buggy), the system was truly portable, and it was completely unlike anything that came before or since. I knew a couple of other kids who had them, and they loved them - and kids who didn't have one were generally pretty keen to play on it when they came over.
Unfortunately, it was pretty much doomed from the start. Another unique idea killed by poor marketing and the video game crash, basically. A shame, too, because a lot of great homebrew stuff showing the system's true potential has come out in recent years.
(I will admit to being a vector freak; this may be clouding my judgement somewhat. Overall, though, for the time, it was a really nifty system.)
Edited by casm (08/06/14 12:57 AM)
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