View Full Version : Handheld Vectrex?
Zaxxon
10-06-2003, 02:21 PM
The Vectrex almost made a comeback in 1988, when Smith Engineering considered resurrecting the Vectrex as a handheld unit. Milton Bradley thought the $100+ price tag of the unit would make it unsellable, so the idea was scrapped. A year later Nintendo's Game Boy was released and enjoyed and became a huge success, but the handheld Vectrex concept was never tried again.
Does anyone have any idea what they planned to use as a display for this? Any mockups/sketches of this exist?
christianscott27
10-06-2003, 02:36 PM
that would have been really cool but how the hell would they have fit the monitor tube into a handheld?
Raccoon Lad
10-06-2003, 02:43 PM
It probably would have been LCD....unless they figured out how to make tiny vector displays really cheap.
I guess you could always ask Mike Cartiabiano, he MIGHT know. I think his E-mail is on the Sennari website somewhere.
digitalpress
10-06-2003, 02:43 PM
I have something I'd like to show you.
http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/vectrex/misc/mini_vectrex_control.jpg
So... what do you suppose this is?
ddockery
10-06-2003, 02:47 PM
A custom Vectrex controller??
chadtower
10-06-2003, 02:48 PM
You have my full attention. :eek 2:
Zaxxon
10-06-2003, 02:52 PM
Maybe they were going to make it like a smaller, battery operated tabletop unit like a Coleco arcade or Red Zone tabletop.
chadtower
10-06-2003, 02:53 PM
Isn't that almost what an actual Vectrex is?
Zaxxon
10-06-2003, 03:03 PM
Isn't that almost what an actual Vectrex is?
No, it's too big and heavy and there's no way you can run it off batteries(30 D cells?). I'm thinking something 1/3 the size and 1/4 the weight. Like a Red Zone or Coleco arcade tabletop.
toddst
10-06-2003, 03:35 PM
Ummm, it's something that you are going to give me for my birthday...
It looks like it has the same port as the regular Vectrex joystick
-Todd
FABombjoy
10-06-2003, 03:38 PM
It looks like a Vectrex controller that someone built into a handwarmer, glasses case, or an old remote control.
Does the bottom of it open up? What's the little button/latch looking thing?
Videogamerdaryll
10-07-2003, 03:28 AM
I have something I'd like to show you.
http://www.digitpress.com/dpsightz/vectrex/misc/mini_vectrex_control.jpg
So... what do you suppose this is?
Wow!..I'd love to see that in person..Awesome..
Details please....
Phosphor Dot Fossils
10-07-2003, 03:40 AM
I don't guess we can get lucky enough for that to be the Jakks Pacific or Techno Source 50-in-1 Vectrex TV Game, can we? :evil: LOL
christianscott27
10-07-2003, 09:25 AM
shot in the dark, that wouldnt be from the color vectrex would it?
wberdan
10-07-2003, 11:17 AM
here's my guess... its a controller from a prototype vectrex with a 5" screen?
am i warm?
willie