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Post by gamezone on Nov 5, 2011 7:27:48 GMT -5
I don't have much information about the Vectrex Color but I have read in husshed whispers if the video game crash had not happenend it might have been released.
Maybe it is just fantasy but I hope it was a real project.
Myself I have sight problems when it comes to viewing color objects. So I would have really appreciated owning one.
No more trying to track down the overlays. I also think it would have helped the homebrew scene now.
So to get to my question.
Are you glad it wasn't released so that it keeps the Vectrex a unique system or was this a major gaming loss?
If anyone has any more information I hope you could please share it with the rest of us?
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Post by gamezone on Nov 5, 2011 11:16:14 GMT -5
Guess this answers my question. Sorry I should have dug deeper.
Found this link.
home.earthlink.net/~jmorg/vectrex/VecColor.htm
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Post by sj on Nov 5, 2011 13:02:51 GMT -5
Personally I think the only chink in a Vecys armour is it's overlay. A colour Vectrex would have wiped the floor with all opposition. IMO.  |
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Post by VectorX on Nov 5, 2011 16:59:37 GMT -5
Are you glad it wasn't released so that it keeps the Vectrex a unique system or was this a major gaming loss? I don't feel either way about it: it wasn't a "major gaming loss" since the Vectrex wasn't everywhere anyway. A color Vectrex would've just been the next step up and the original would still be seen as a unique system since there was no other like it. It would've been neat to have, plus I'm sure that, if they were to come out with one, it'd be a bit of an improvement over the original, i. e. no buzzing and a better processor so there wouldn't be as much slowdown that plagued several games. |
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Post by VectorX on Jul 3, 2021 21:15:45 GMT -5
Bumping up this one since it's the closest one to an even older post I had on a YouTube video:
I put up a couple of comments about color vectors and got this e-mail saying that someone had replied to one of them, after all these years and years:
A color Vectrex was about to be released to the market just prior to the video game crash. Too bad it was never mass-produced.
Uh, no it wasn't. Makes you wonder where people get this "information" from.
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Post by TrekMD on Jul 4, 2021 10:15:17 GMT -5
Oh, you know how things get altered as they get repeated. It probably went from "there was a prototype in development" to "it was about to be released."
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Post by VectorX on Jul 4, 2021 10:17:16 GMT -5
Yeah, good point. You never know with things but I'd think at least we would've heard about something like this after all these years!
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Post by TrekMD on Jul 4, 2021 10:26:23 GMT -5
Yep. I did get to see what I believe is one of the two prototypes at CGE in 2014.
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Post by VectorX on Jul 4, 2021 10:31:03 GMT -5
Great to hear they might still be around |
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