Recently cleaned out a garage and found these: working monitor, controllers and games. System fired up (see pictures) and so we asked Chat what to do with it. It suggested selling on e-bay, facetime (don't have or want an account) or this site. Anyone have interest?
Apologies if posting is not proper, first time doing so
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Hi folks.
Ive been working on a vectrex for fun.
Testing up to try and figure out the big ol' white dot.
As of now. For the original chipset and all.
The cpu was cooked and sending a R/W constantly to vectorial chip causing the white dot.
The rom was cooked.
But it was lightning up.
Ive been working on it for a while now.
Ive recaped everything, swapped the vectorial chip , the cpu and... the rom.
The flyback as a primary coil voltage of 70v.
The capacitor C503 exploded on my face cause i peak at 27v and not 25v ( my dad laughed at my sorryass)
Now i think that capacitor explosion cooked the cpu and the vectorial chip.
And of course no display since the vectorial chip doesnt feed the signals to the amplifiers to boost the 50v necessary to activate the secondary of the flyback.
I can't wait to finish it up!
Hi all,
I inherited my husband’s Vectrex and a stack of games. The light pen works. I haven’t tried the 3-d vision or the games with the overlays.
He told me about this system ever since I met him in the late 80s, mainly because BattleZone was my favorite arcade game and had the same vector-based graphics. It really is a cool system. He lovingly packed it all up around the same time that we got our marriage licence back in the early 90s, so it’s in fantastic shape.
Anyway, nice to meet y’all.
Is it all reddit and FB now?
I'd like to research the value of my collection
There’s a local collector selling his Vectrex stuff. I’ve worked with him before. He has crazy stuff (almost a complete NES and N64 collection) so I don’t want to lowball but this seems a hair on the expensive side. Would $1000 be too low? He says he’s open to offers. I have a Vectrex but it’s rough and I don’t have any games for it. He sent me a video of it working this morning and said I could check it out in person if I’d like. He literally lives down the street. He said he also has a Jaguar and 3DO he’s about to list and might make a bundle deal. What do you think? Sorry if thiss post isn’t allowed.