Your birth year
2006
Vectrex
19821980s
Vectrex is 24 years older than you
It's from 1982, before you were born.
- Maker
- GCE / Milton Bradley
- Type
- Console with built-in vector screen
- Debuted
- 1982
- Note
- Crisp black-and-white vectors; games came with color overlays
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About
As of 2026, it's 44 years old.
The Vectrex didn't need your TV — it brought its own. Built into the unit was a tall monochrome vector screen, the same glowing-line tech as Asteroids arcade cabinets, making it gloriously unlike every raster console of its day.
Since the display was strictly black-and-white, games shipped with translucent plastic overlays you slotted over the screen to fake color and add artwork. A light-pen and even a 3D headset accessory followed before the 1983 crash cut its run short.
A console with its own glowing screen, killed too soon and beloved by collectors ever since.
