Friday 9 February 2024

"Other kids on the block"

Scrolling back in the blog you’ll see I have been off and on with the VecCab and Full upright Vectrex arcade using 19” monitor endeavours for quite a few years. Real life takes over, and  Vectrex development tasks get pushed to the back.

I’m still active with the Vectrex Fans Unit Facebook forum, and it’s a good place to be as you get to see the results of other Vectrex mad heads every now and then.

This often sparks me into continuing with my own developments. So fresh for me this week is seeing the images from Herve L’Helgoualch. He’s built a Vectrex arcade cabinet, housing two original controllers – in effect a two-player cabinet.

The cabinet is large, and he has shelves in the available space to store Vectrex games and overlays. The cabinet graphics are fantastic and in keeping with the overall Vectrex flavour. He made the graphics using Adobe Illustrator and printed them out on sticker sheets.

Herve, kindly allowed me to show his images here. He also gave a link which provides a lot of details about the build: Herve's link