Star Ship / Star Trek on Vectrex retro games console

[888asd00]

Summer 1984, aged 12. Console £50 from Woolworths. Can't recall cart prices. Seem to recall this was my fave game. Worst, Berzerk.

[RichardCyberPunk]

I think that the game uses overlay, so that the cross marker, who stays in the middle is green. To compensate for the Black/White vector graphics of the Vectrex system. Odly, now, in 2010, i realise, that there are not many machines nowadays that use real vector graphics. Is there any newer game system that uses vectors instead of pixels. ? Even HDMI uses pixels. Anyhow, maybe i gonna buy a 2nd hand maiden Vectrex to experiment with.

[SteveBenway]

@RichardCyberPunk There were a few arcade games that used vectors, but the Vectrex is the only games console that ever used them.

[fuzzywzhe]

@RichardCyberPunk Vector graphics were only used because of limitations in computational speed for drawing polygons. Vector graphics went obsolete as soon as hardware was fast enough to draw a few hundred polygons in a 60th of a second and that happened before 1990.

[invisionuk]

I wonder if they built this game on rock and roll. Terrible joke, I know. Shoot me!

[Nickanimation]

don't shoot the mother ship!

[Snotnarok]

At the time this must have been mind blowing, my brother was telling me about this how amazing it was to have no boxy graphics, pure circles and straight lines. Vector graphics are awesome.

[Lachlant1984]

Oh how I wish I had one of this Arcade Systems, I think it's so cool. Can you connect a headset to the system so you can play games without annoying other people around you? This system is so bloody cool.

[aunshi360]

i think those big ships that u blew up were charge stations.

[linksavetheday]

cool this game is called star trek in the USA

[DJKOZI]

Thanks for showing your collection! BTW: It seems that your Vectrex screen is misaligned a bit. Just in case you don´t know that already, you can fix that on your own with a test cardridge and a screwdriver.