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Post by VectorX on Mar 6, 2015 0:42:46 GMT -5
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Post by sokurah on Mar 14, 2015 17:00:10 GMT -5
More likely that entry was written by someone uninformed who didn't do their research properly, or perhaps they only considered arcade machines and not games for other platforms such as the one Spacewars was made for (or was confused by the arcade version of Space Wars from 1977 and based the statement on that). They're right about it being the first 3D vector game though.  |
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Post by VectorGamer on Mar 18, 2015 13:53:42 GMT -5
This game isn't even listed in KLOV's database
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Post by VectorX on Mar 18, 2015 14:45:35 GMT -5
It's a computer game.
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Post by garryg on Jul 31, 2015 8:04:43 GMT -5
Wasn't it tennis for two, in 1958?
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Post by VectorX on Jul 31, 2015 9:05:38 GMT -5
That wasn't vector, just in black and white.
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Post by gliptitude on Jul 31, 2015 23:54:47 GMT -5
.. How is Tennis for Two not vector? It natively displays on an oscilloscope and i doubt you can find a video of it displaying otherwise.
.. I can't get the Panther video to display on my device, but the preview image looks pretty clearly to be a raster display and that the game was designed for such. .. This would classify i think as what we call "vector-like".
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Post by VectorX on Aug 1, 2015 8:25:37 GMT -5
.. How is Tennis for Two not vector? It natively displays on an oscilloscope and i doubt you can find a video of it displaying otherwise. The graphics could be displayed on a regular monitor and I doubt they'd be wireframe outlines. I know that oscilloscopes have vector monitors, but I think what people look at as far as being first vector anything are the wireframe graphics and not in regards to what it was displayed on (I assume there wasn't much else that could be used back then when Tennis For Two was created but I could be wrong, so it could be the display was just on vector-based technology by default, but the game doesn't seem to have the wireframe graphics). I agree with the "vector-like" looks/argument, but it says on the entry that the "Game used scalable vector graphics called linesets", so it sounds like technically it was indeed vector, even if it doesn't look that way (i. e. Sophia Vergara is supposedly a natural blonde, even though her eyebrows are brown. Sometimes that happens). |
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Post by garryg on Aug 5, 2015 18:03:59 GMT -5
.. How is Tennis for Two not vector? It natively displays on an oscilloscope and i doubt you can find a video of it displaying otherwise. I assume there wasn't much else that could be used back then when Tennis For Two was created but I could be wrong, so it could be the display was just on vector-based technology by default, but the game doesn't seem to have the wireframe graphics. Not sure I agree. The game was written to be displayed on a vector screen, the gun drew the image vector style, not raster style. I would say what it looked like is fairly irrelevant, as the technology it was written for and displayed on was a vector display, hence it used vector graphics - just as much a printing text on the vectrex. |
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