Well, thank you for the unexpected nostalgia-gasm. As a certain set of divorced absentee fathers are wont to do, my father would show up every 18 to 24 months,

Well, thank you for the unexpected nostalgia-gasm. As a certain set of divorced absentee fathers are wont to do, my father would show up every 18 to 24 months, shower me with gifts, then disappear again in a puff of Ferrari exhaust. Those gifts would always be slightly off from what I wanted, usually reflecting his own tastes rather than what a 10 year old might want. One such time I got a Vectrex, I was the only kid who had one and as such it didn't really get much use beyond my brother and I. The cheapo ZX Spectrum 48k got much more use because I could swap games with friends, use hardware with their systems, etc etc. (Other items he'd buy me throughout the years: a Yamaha SHS10 keytar rather than a full size keyboard I requested. An expensive SLR camera whose lens drank batteries when I asked for clothes. An Atari ST that wasn't the same as the other kids' STs in a way I don't remember, but it couldn't do everything their machines could. All this sounds like I'm horrifically entitled and bitter; I was, back then. He's dead now, and my anger has been swamped by sad regret) But the Vectrex and its vector graphics was pretty amazing. Razor sharp lines at a time when most systems struggled to do CGA. But I remember the games being repetitive and limited by the single colour screen.