News
25. Mar.
2014
Added pictures of the Wells
Gardner 6400 Color Vector Monitor - thanks to Jeffrey Matthews
19. Feb. 2012
Couple of updates on
the Trade/Wanted page - Offering Fluke
9010A / Fluke 9000A stuff
Why
does this site exist ?
This
site is
created and maintained primarily to provide information about Vector
Arcade Games, their history, the companies who developed them,
technical details, restoration/repair hints and parts sourcing
help.
Of course, much of the information applies in general to arcade games
at this time and this is the second objective to assist in repairing
and restoring of machines of the "Golden Age" (1978-1985). A
nice
game and one of my favorites is the
Tempest
from Atari.
Who does not know
Vector Games
like
Asteroids,
Tempest or
Space Wars,
who wasn't fascinated by the smooth graphics and crisp picture of a
Vector Monitor and didn't spend coin after coin in trying to raise the
Hi-Score. I must admit, I missed these games in the Arcades but came
back to them in 2003 when I bought an Asteroids Cocktail Table in EBAY
that was completely dead. Knowledge of electronics helped in
repairing the PCB and the complete machine and after the picture on the
monitor was back, I was hooked to the vector stuff. If you know the
difference between a MAME emulation of Asteroids and the real thing,
you know what I mean.
Since then years I spent in collecting further vector games and
learned more in repairing also vector monitors as well as PCB's. I read
excellent articles about the secrets of vector games and monitors and I
was also able to help some collectors here in Germany to restore their
machines. My collection can be seen under "
My
Arcade Collection"
link on the left.
Almost two years ago I started to build this site about
Vector
Games. Admittedly
there is much information out there on the internet regarding vector
games. What I intend to do is to list all vector games on one site
including clones and licensed versions and to provide as much
information on one page per game including good pictures that help
restoring. I'll not try to duplicate things, so I'll link to existing
sites whereever feasible.
If you believe, you can add to this site with good pictures of Vector
Machines or any other information or if you have feedback then drop me
a mail via
Privacy Policy.
Thanks for reading,
Andreas
