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Welcome to the Vectrex Wikia! A place for all Vectrexians to gather to discuss the best -- and only -- vector gaming system ever made!

RASTER NOT ALLOWED!!

Forget the pixels and the polygons, this is a lines-only zone! (Not counting a few of the bitmapped homebrew games, of course!)

So far, there are 319 non-polygon articles online since November 2, 2010.

A few pages of interest

A few things to get you started with!

• List of Vectrex games (note: it's divided into three sections, so keep on scrolling...down...WAAAAAAAY down...)
• List of Vectrex personnel
• How to write an article specifically for this site. Even veteran Wikia contributors should check out this page for formatting specifically for this Vectrex Wikia, although it will probably turn out to be simpler than most.
• Also, be sure to share your story as to when you first got your Vectrex (or just an interesting one that happened at some point)!
• Yes, this Wikia has way more than just lists! Check out the Content page or just do a Search (both at left)!

Note: navigation of this site is easier if you have a Wikia account; without one, the new default skin does not have as many features showing up on this page. The Search appears at the top, total content of this site can be viewed here, and more can be viewed here. Thanks!

New content

Featured article

Western Technologies employee John Ross went with Mike Pervus, Tom Sloper, and Steve Marking to Electro Mavin, a surplus dealer's warehouse in Los Angeles. There Ross found a 1" Cathode Ray Tube from a Heads Up Display. This led to a demonstration of how to make a vector display from a raster television: a stereo amplifier was connected to the horizontal and vertical deflection coils and driven with music program material. Ross was responsible for the monitor design. He also shepherded the production of prototypes with Jamie MacInnis and the initial printed board circuitry and Hong Kong manufacturing via Steve Marking. (The rest of the article can be read here.)

Things to do

• Currently there are no articles for anyone involved as the original Vectrex personnel. Feel free to by trying to track down and contact these people (or just do some research on them) for articles!
• The Catalog of Vectrex peripherals is a bit of a mess, so do feel free to edit and get rid of a bit of the "red" in it if you are familiar with any of its unfinished content! Thanks!
• Some years are also a mess in not having certain homebrews listed. If anyone is certain (or somewhere close to that :P ) of when a certain homebrew was released, then please update it on a list, as there are several homebrews on various Vectrex sites with conflicting, differing dates listed as a release.
• Someone needs to do an article on GCE and Western Technologies/Smith Engineering, for God's sake! There isn't even much on Wikipedia about either one (sadly)! Someone must know SOMETHING!! (There is some material at vectrex.co website in the Scans area though to start with, luckily.)