Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex
AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600
These two thoughts are not compatible.
Submitted 1 day ago by BCBoy911@lemmy.ca to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://vectrex.com/vectrex-mini-details/
Experience the spirit of the original Vectrex
AMOLED display with a resolution of 800×600
These two thoughts are not compatible.
It’s always Vectrex too. I had a customer that was obsessed with getting one emulated, he just refused to understand that, fundamentally, vector graphics are incompatible with raster. No matter how I tried to break it down that a CRT was a necessity, that raster would always look wrong, that nobody develops a good vectrex emulator because you can’t emulate the graphics…
Grifters gonna grift I guess.
If the gameplay itself hits your nostalgia feels, then okay, modern gear can make it playable and… fine. But vector CRT games were just so deeply tied to the way the CRT worked that you can never properly capture their spirit in raster form, especially on a tiny and so-so panel.
Yeah, it looks like they just slapped an old samsung phone in a plastic shell. Painful.
From the website:
Why not a CRT?
The CRT is an iconic part of the original Vectrex, but today it is impossible to produce since no suppliers for this type of screen exist anymore. Since our goal is not to create a perfect copy but an accessible, faithful and playable tribute, we looked for the best possible alternative. AMOLED turned out to be the ideal compromise to achieve a display close to the original.
While I’m glad they aren’t entirely ignoring the elephant in the room, what I’m humbly suggesting is that they’re wrong. It’s a rather inadequate compromise, and you might as well just use RetroArch on a tablet, which could get closer to the original screen size anyway.
Yup… literally the first thing I did was scroll down to see what type of screen it was. smh
Wow all that bezel and the wrong screen ratio makes this thing look nothing like a Vectrex.
What’s the damage though?
Is that a coffee machine?
IronpigsWizard@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Definitely a disappointment. As another poster stated, putting retroarch on a tablet pretty much accomplishes the same thing.