I love how in the video the young guy asks "Does it use a frame buffer?" Dude, this beauty didn't use bitmaps or raster graphics at all. Rather, it was a glorif

I love how in the video the young guy asks "Does it use a frame buffer?" Dude, this beauty didn't use bitmaps or raster graphics at all. Rather, it was a glorified oscilloscope you programmed by directly controlling the deflection of the tube's electron gun. To draw a line you'd tell it to keep the electrons firing during the deflection. If not, you got a dot. That's it. For a brief period of time vector games like Asteroids and Gravitron made it into arcades where their "smooth", rotatable graphics looked quite sophisticated beside all the blocky, pixelated games like Pac Man or Centipede. Somewhere in storage at our old house I even have a vector-based game console, called the Vectrex. I really need to dig it out for my boys to play with.