In an age of blocky pixels, vectorbeam monitors offered sharp arcade action in games such as Asteroids, Tempest and Star Wars. The Vectrex game console brought the technology home, but the system's ...

Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white ...

It’s becoming clearer now that most old consoles and computers are ripe for a remake. From handhelds to mini versions of things such as the Commodore 64 or Spectrum, everything seems to be making a ...

It’s hard to find a system with a smaller library than the Mattel HyperScan. The gimmick of this console was that you could scan cards (that were sold separately, of course) to unlock new game perks.