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To: ShadowAce
The measure of a great gaming platform is if people want to use it to play games on... rather than another platform. At least on occasion.

And that is why the Bally Astrocade and GCE Vectrex sold so much better than the Atari 2600 and the Mattel Intellivision.
7 posted on 08/01/2014 11:49:31 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("If you're litigating against nuns, you've probably done something wrong."-Ted Cruz)
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To: Dr. Sivana

“GCE Vectrex” ... a masterpiece.

I have every game for this thing except Polar Rescue and one of the light pen games (well, I have those on a flash cart ... but that doesn’t count).

I have the 3D goggles and all 3 games for that with the color wheels (had to trade some vector arcade stuff I had for those) :-).

I frigging love that system :-). I was young when it came out ... my dad grabbed one + a bulk of the games I have when they were being cleared out for next to nothing around 1985 or so.

There have been a lot of great homebrew releases over the past 15+ years too.


20 posted on 08/01/2014 12:55:59 PM PDT by edh (I need a better tagline)
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