Classic Game Room - VECTREX MULTI-CART review

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Classic Game Room HD reviews the VECTREX MULTI-CART for Vectrex with all Vectrex games included on game cartridge! The Multi-Cart for Vectrex also contains a number of homebrew titles like Frogger, Moon Lander and Omega Race. Multi-cart means multi-fun because you can enjoy loads of Vectrex games for a reasonable price on one cartridge but if you want to dig the overlays you'll have to find them separately. CGR Vectrex multicart video review has tons of awesome Vectrex gameplay!

[@der1schwarzestrich]

How ingenious. As a child I was also the proud owner of a Vectrex. It always reminded me of Tron. Back then everything was better, even the future.

[@leandrooliveira3070]

This console is kinda appealing. The way the graphics are designed... Kinda cool

[@firstnamelastname-oy7es]

+Leo Oliveira Vector graphics, that aren't filled in with textures? I guess. How would you feel if the vectors themselves were not just one solid colour, but could be their own colour? So you could have a green colour for like grass, and brown for mud, etc etc. It wouldn't be hard to make something like that these days in software.

[@leandrooliveira3070]

Bungis Albondigas every game would look like a retro tron. Even so, pretty nice idea for retro style games. I don't think an uncharted would work properly with vector graphics only, however xD

[@qurazy]

I love the look of the Vectrex. It can get so much done with just some lines on a black screen. I love how they glow and leave trails on the screen as well. Very appealing to the eyes.

[@MatthJenks]

"Vectrex is the cure for something that isn't Vectrex." - as far as I'm concerned, that's the new official slogan.

[@ClassicReplay]

God I love the Vectrex! It feels ahead of its time. I need more of these reviews in my life.

[@JayArgonaut]

The Vectrex was amazing. It used a Vector CRT which is why it didn't have any pixels compared to its peers. If only they'd used a colour display - but I suppose there must've been cost issues. Technically, this would've been the only machine able to provide perfect home versions of the Atari Vector CRT arcade games like Battlezone, Star Wars, Empire, Tempest etc. Just goes to show that the best and most innovative hardware doesn't always win or receive the recognition it deserves.

[@RubenHernandez-bh9wd]

Love how the car turns and those smooth curves of the road on Pole Position!

[@MrROTD]

I love your reviews so relaxing

[@exiledPostman]

A cartridge that holds every vectrex game released. I think Mark has entered his happy place. All that's missing is burning people with monsters and cutting them in half.

[@BlackEcology]

this thing is amazing. surprised i never ran into one as a teen working a Goodwill, and no one my older brothers knew in the early 80s had one when we were growing up.

[@superdude4380]

Those graphics are really quite impressive, especially considering the era.

[@NickTheG]

i was shocked how smooth the graphics were considering its era, i am impressed :)

[@TheMamaluigi300]

I think what you need is Truxton on the vectrex being played with a Sega genesis controller

[@Moonfreeze]

Cosmic Chasm! Wow what a flashback. I was mesmerized by it.

[@SatoshiMatrix1]

"Vectrex is the cure for something that isn't Vectrex" oh man I need that on a t-shirt.

[@brorianszk]

Good idea!

[@525Lines]

This is pretty darn sharp. I remember seeing one for sale back then but they really weren't promoted much at all. I can't recall seeing any commercials for it.

[@theawesomegamr]

oh ya, good idea! imagine a modern game on the vectrex, that would be so cool :D

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

I love that someone made a multi-cart for the Vectrex. I suppose they expanded the ROM space or whatever you call it to do it. It is definitely a convenience to have a collection of games to play on one cartridge, and saves you money too. Getting those overlays though might be a bit harder. lol

[@Roxxxxxxxbottttter]

From what I hear, the console's visuals looks even better in person than on a video.

[@r4ytrace]

god i love vector displays - used to love playing the Star Wars Arcade machine with the vector display...

[@inceptional]

Seriously, this is waaay more impressive graphically than something like the Atari 2600. I mean look at how smoothly things move in a game like Pole Position here, and how clean the scaling of the cars is. I'm amazed this machine flopped back in the day: It had its own built-in screen, which is just visually mesmerizing, an actually pretty cool controller as well, and when used properly can produce some really nice vector graphics, including stuff that can be pretty convincingly like actual 3D too. This would have utterly blown me away back in the day, and far more so than stuff like the Tomytronic 3D toys that I actually thought were pretty cool too.

[@user-nt5tw6fx3z]

These old games are sooooooo charming! :'-)

[@MrLazyEyes]

Some of those games look AMAZING! I wish I had a Vectrex.

[@kyloctopus]

I love how you just keep a Vectrex list. Its very handy.

[@redcardinalist]

These vector graphics are great. Reminds me to go play Tempest again! :)

[@TheLastLineLive]

Glad to see Mark going back to some of the old games. For a while there, he was only doing new ones. And he's pretty much neglected the SNES and the 32 bit consoles at this point, LOL

[@nintendoneil]

the thing that impresses me about the vectrex is its ability to scale graphics... consoles were not able to do this until the super nes came out with mode 7 several years later..

[@i-a-g-r-e-e-----f-----jo--b]

Rip Off is one of my all time favorites, I might get a Vectrex just to play it!

[@KetwunsGamingPad]

Man, the frame rate and vector graphics in Pole Position must be very impressive for Vectrex! That is an excellent port!

[@OneWingedGamer18]

''Vectrex is the cure to everything that isn't vectrex'' - Words of wisdom

[@Pharaoh93]

i love the vectrex men great review

[@denderfurger]

pole position! looks epic in the Vectrex !

[@geraldford6409]

Glad I bought my 2 Vectrex units ~20+ years ago, along with an original Sean Kelly Muticart ;) The prices are out of control nowadays YEs, only cost effective way to have a real vector monitor based multi-mini-cabinet

[@gamerfly101]

Agreed, I don't collect for the console itself but the quote on getting the games cheaper than a nintendo cart certainly didn't age well... 😂 And I would love to own one but 500 dollars is... rough to say the least.

[@brorianszk]

Got mine 5 years ago for 240€ with one controller and 8 complete games. I consider myself lucky. And the guy that sold the console to me had all the advices that a Vectrex owner should know. One advice to be honest : unplug the Vectrex when you're not playing it.

[@Jerberjer]

@ps3pitos the overlays are the plastic sheets that go over the screen and gave it some color

[@shanethefox]

man... the Vectrex is just so AWESOME!!

[@10p6]

@19psi With a vector monitor, you only have to enter he start and end coordinates of a line; the monitor then draws the rest of the line.

[@Ryoga2K]

Actually I saw some vectrex footage before CGR and I always thought.. hey! that game console isn't that bad! but CGR confirmed me that the Vectrex is actually awesome.

[@ptwob]

wow pole posision looks really kool on the vectrex

[@311fob]

This was back in the early 80's? Wow, looks better than some of the later games. =0

[@starsoldier1]

Cool, I saw Frogger there!

[@feetforeveryone]

Excelente Review! =)

[@videogameobsession]

Great cart. I have 2.0 of Sean Kelly's Multicart. It adds quite a few home brew titles. I was successful in printing out my own overlays with some cheap overhead film, but they weren't perfect.

[@brorianszk]

Now there is the 3.0 version.

[@Microwave414]

Polar rescue actually looks impressive if you put into consideration of the year it was made.

[@videogameobsession]

cool, that's the same multicart that I bought many years ago along with the Vec system directly from Sean Kelly (of Kelly & Taft fame!). I love StarFire on the vec and you will too if you like Star Wars The Arcade Game.

[@TAoVG]

@RareAspie It is the same tube technology called a vector display. That's why they named it the Vectrex. Read about the display tech on Wikipedia.

[@EndymionMkII]

seriously mark, you ever want me to have a vectrex, it´s just so awesome

[@Lethaltail]

I like the Vector Vaders intro. :3

[@jakethreesixty]

i had a chance to own a vectrex before, but i was too young to care and i regret that every time i watch a cgrhd review of somthing vectrex related

[@hewey999]

played the veccy Pole position today, it rocks, really good fun :-)

[@emojo1990]

man, that pinball game looked AWSESOMES!

[@EstebanFrederik]

hello Lord Karnage , because I never did a review on Spike for the Vectrex ?? very good videos .

[@Kettenwurm]

Actually I really totally love those vector based graphics. I'm thinking about getting a Vectrex right now :)

[@Topesio66]

@TechnoEstate got a Vectrex and got today a Virtual boy...man....what a console.....I love Virtual boy too...now I GOT to get some other virtual boy games.....these consoles were underrated ...

[@rokcetmakesgarbage]

@ps3pitos an overlay is a cute little thing you put over your screen to give it more style.

[@JayArgonaut]

@TechnoEstate Yes! Both machines were massively ahead of their time and suffered the misfortune of poor marketing and being released at crucially bad moments.

[@Grafblaffer1]

poleposition looks cool indeed

[@Phredreeke]

Pole Position looks awesome on Vectrex.

[@anthonnwildoer2061]

Pole Position looks amazing!

[@rocketassistedgoat1079]

It looks like vomit after re-ingested by my dog, then excreted out the back again and re-ingested. Good boy.

[@Jagermaster13]

I'd love to see a modern interpretation of a vector based game using all the power of the modern consoles.

[@davidthechupacabra6191]

those old school graphics of this system is amazing i cant immagine seeing this for first time in 1982 specially that racing game. I like this look way better than stupid artari pixels

[@johneygd]

Cool flash card so now you can rock the vectrex.

[@NefariousDreary]

Vectrex is the cure for something that isn't Vectrex.lol

[@Dedalwedal]

the vectrex might possibly be the best game console ever created.

[@TheCRTman]

Vectrex is awesome, but one day, I want to make a game console that has a separate vector monitor and plays arcade perfect games. I would call it, the Vectrex 2!

[@twistedyogert]

And for a screen, you can use one from an oscilloscope.

[@PFPDan]

I agree with both the comments below mine. The 360 bash was a bit low, but hey, the truth hurts. And yes it's called CLASSIC game room for a reason. Nice review btw mark, I love these collection reviews.

[@jnbloss]

There was a Frogger on the menu? I'd have lived to see that! How about a Vectrex Homebrew Special? :)

[@natedoggcata]

I got to play one of these at PAX East this year... I FUCKING WANT ONE! This thing is amazing

[@theawesomegamr]

back in 2010 the demand was still high, but not as high as nowdays

[@IcarusMoonsight]

No Starcastle highlight? Bummer, I've been waiting for you to show that one. Great game.

[@Xegethra]

@SpiralPegasus yeah exactly, as long as the graphics get the point accross its all good and on the vectrex its easy to distinguish what is what.....

[@ARaider510]

At a moment like this, it is only proper to say.. VEKTREX!!

[@Freakadelle1980]

I played Vectrex in 1984... long time ago :-D

[@chocolatedestroyer01]

Over 12 years have passed since the release of any new Vectrex game. LIFE JUST GOT BETTER. -.-

[@brorianszk]

Impossible. Look at all these homebrews!

[@SharinaiStudios]

Yes thats a great idea!

[@SharinaiStudios]

Have a switch to the orginal vectrex graphics or in color. Man we need a vectrex 2!

[@MasterGamer15]

Playstation 3? XBox 360? Wii? All we gamers really need is beer and Vectrex...

[@rodrigostorti970]

nice graphics, great console!!!!

[@Mr-ep2qi]

VECTREX RULES!

[@PostLagone]

vectrex = underated awesomeness

[@CODMarioWarfare]

The difficulty of that would be the fact that Vector CRT technology hasn't come extremely far due to lack of research.

[@Lycandingo]

Dude what have we been doing for the past ten years? These graphics completely defeat the xbox one and only if you have a computer will you perhaps be able to run these games in fifteen years from now. Truly Mark, you're lucky.

[@athlongm]

I want Vectrex for my birthday!

[@dannyofthededd]

My better halves brother's vectrex is stashed away in his daughter's attic. I keep hinting that it needs some Danny love but they live darn sarf and we're oop noorf so getting it up here in one piece would be a nightmare. I love the vector display. Even the reflections around the screen border look sexy

[@wwe2005]

that cartridge was made in 99, the console and some of the games on the cartridge are from 82

[@SharinaiStudios]

Yeah well maybe not smaller (because of the over lays but maybe like those flatscreen tv's that would be cool.Also have that hold the controll tray.

[@neonfatum]

Vectrex games look badass.

[@infringementMAN]

Vectrex has the sexiest graphics ever made.

[@theawesomegamr]

actually it was pulled from the shelves quickly, it was only on the market for 2 years. thats a little while, but not enough to make it considered a common console

[@Torch70]

@10p6 How does the vector monitor do all the work vs. a raster monitor? Atari has a 6507 @ 1.19mhz and 128 BYTES of memory. Vectrex has 68A09P @ 1.5mhz and 1KB of memory.

[@Videogamehistorian00]

@Skimaskkass Actually it's a game that was given out very briefly by the Mr. Boston liquor company, the only change I've heard of was that the vacuum was changed to a top hat.

[@Korgi_Polymer]

what was the last game you played before you had the end logo go off?

[@SharinaiStudios]

Yeah it should look lit a tv but more smaller or something smaller than the original. It should be a cd/catridge based console. That would be awsome!

[@CodedErrors]

vectrex is the neo geo of the 1983s

[@ThisIsEDX]

@leerees Me too. I really enjoy the virtual boy. I think the fact that kids didn't really know how to configure the screen was one of the major downfalls. It doesn't hurt your eyes if you do.

[@leoviper]

VECTREX FTW!!!

[@BillehBobJoe]

someone should send this guy the light pen

[@LtDanw]

4:25 sharp graphics. very special.

[@ramshambo2001]

You've pretty much convinced me I need to purchase a vectrex. Have you had any issues with your unit? I'm worried about putting down $250 for one only to have it break a couple a weeks later, is it pretty sturdy/good quality or made cheaply?

[@rocketassistedgoat1079]

It's as sturdy as a brick, with slightly less computational ability. Makes a great $250 paperweight.

[@brorianszk]

If it breaks, it won't be the screen nor the chips. It's the capacitors most of the time I guess. Some people sell replacement components for the Vectrex.

[@AaronAndersonRWP]

I would love to get myself a multi-cart. The Vectrex is absolutely fantastic but my game library is sorely lacking... :(

[@OlegUstimenko]

"Vectrex is the cure for something that isn't Vectrex" Mark from CGR.