Vectrex

the actual bigger story is the sprout that it's not the fact that crash bandicoot's running on the ipod because it's not it's not really it's running on it's running on a raspberry pi um so you know i think you know on the screen on the you can tell it's you can tell it's crash bandicoot like you know it's that bluey gray but it is crash bandicoot

Yeah, I think it's similar to that story we were talking about last week when somebody got Doom running on the Vectrex via a PC.

It's just that it's using the display, isn't it? Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, that aesthetic, I suppose.

All two fans will enjoy that.

Mario 64 just got on Vectrex.

Was the Vectrex one, was that actually like a rendering thing using different hardware? Or was that an actual Vectrex monitor that did that?

That's a good question.

I thought that was a Vectrex interpretation that was the output to a Vectrex monitor, but maybe it's different.

I don't know.

This is getting too crazy.

We, we got some strange ones this week.

Uh, Doom on a Vectrex, and this is very cool.

It is Doom on a Vectrex, and it looks awesome with those vector graphics.

And it's not the Vectrex CPU doing the heavy lifting; it's, it's a, uh, you know, little, little computer in there, little Raspberry Pi-type thing.

Yeah, it's the Ul- Ultimate Vectrex Multicart.

And yeah, that, that's doing the-

Oh, so that-

Okay

Yep.

The team behind the Vectrex Mini have announced the upcoming product will not include an OLED display, as previously stated, and will instead have an IPS display due to budget concerns, which...

For a Vectrex Mini, I'm not that heartbroken.

I feel bad for anybody who pre-ordered it explicitly because of that, but also, what is the audience of people who explicitly pre-ordered a Vectrex Mini because they thought it would have an OLED display?

I mean, I get it.

Like, you know, an OLED would have those really deep blacks that would make Vectrex really pop.

On to news and briefs, and Vector Doom is a thing.

Goodpunk2 links us to a video of Doom running, I guess, through rather than on a Vectrex is most accurate Um, a Vectrex is a console from the early 80s that uses a vector-based display, if you haven't seen one.

So think of an oscilloscope, that, um, light cyan color and the, the, the lines without any pixels.

Um, it's quite a, a really different looking display to anything else.

A lot of people will publish their game there or present their new gaming idea there.

So the people from Vectrex brought the Vectrex Mini They did it last year as well.

And they brought it again.

And now it's, you know, more, more featured, more prominent.

They're showcasing like some, some independent titles.

Like you're going to see some homebrew games on the Vectrex of all things, which you have before in the past, but they really, they really emphasize that.

And they'd also bring in the person who like, you know, founded Vectrex.

He was there too.