One of these was the Vectrex – a home console that came with its own monochrome display, wired-in joypad and overlays that changed the colours on the screen, depending on the game. It failed, of ...

The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to the screen by drawing them ...