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Several publications lauded it as one of the best consoles available at the time. The Vectrex was the first console to have a 3D-based peripheral. [1] A color handheld version of the Vectrex was conceived in the late 1980s, but was shelved because of its manufacturing cost and the success of the Nintendo Game Boy.
There were 28 games officially released for the console (includes built-in game) in the US. [ 1 ] This list also includes official unreleased games from GCE, as well as homebrew titles released from 1996 to the present (games, music, demos, utility and diagnostic cartridges).
The Intellivision Amico (currently referred to as simply Amico [4]) is a planned home video game console being developed and marketed by Amico Entertainment (known as Intellivision Entertainment prior to Atari SA's acquisition of the Intellivision brand in May 2024).
The Microvision (aka Milton Bradley Microvision or MB Microvision) is the first handheld game console that used interchangeable cartridges [1] [2] and in that sense is reprogrammable. [3] It was released by the Milton Bradley Company in November 1979 [ 4 ] for a retail price of $49.99, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] equivalent to $212.00 in 2023.
Intellivision was the first game console to provide real-time human voices in the middle of gameplay, courtesy of the Intellivoice module. [103] The first game controller with a directional thumb pad. [104] The Intellivision was also the first game console or home computer to offer a musical synthesizer keyboard.
Cosmic Chasm is a 1982 vector game originally created by GCE for the Vectrex home game system. It became the first game developed for a home system to be turned into an arcade game after Cinematronics, which was in Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the time, released it as their last color vector game.
The North American video game console industry recovered a few years later, mostly due to the widespread success of Nintendo's Western branding for its Famicom console, the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), released in October 1985. The NES was designed to avoid the missteps that caused the 1983 crash and the stigma associated with video ...
3D Crazy Coaster is a video game for the Vectrex console. Released in 1983, 3D Crazy Coaster uses vector graphics to present a 3D ride on a roller coaster . It was originally designed for use with GCE's Imager glasses.