Clear Spot: Past, Present, and Future Vectrexes

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Clockwise from top left: Alpine Rescue menu screen, Share Squid software logo, stills from Alpine Rescue, Chris Romero in a Vectrex T-shirt, games by Future Vector, Ben ‘Rasmasynth’

Past, Present, and Future Vectrexes: In a Clear Spot looking at the Past, Present and Future of the Vectrex Arcade Console, Alex Fitch talks to a couple of programmers for the machine, and a collector / expert on the system. Benoit Bender from Future Vector / Rasmasynth discusses his latest collection of games – Vectral – being released for the Vectrex and his previous titles such as WireOut, Jon Day chats about his forthcoming game Alpine Rescue, and archivist Chris Romero explores his history of collecting for the platform.

Partially broadcast 27th October 2023 on Resonance 104.4 FM / DAB (London)

For more audio formats to download and stream, please visit archive.org and for the 60 minute brodcast edit, plese visit the Resonance Mixcloud page

More info: Future Vector games and demos for the Vectrex / Rasmasynth synthesiser technology
Order Vectral for the machine
Jon Day’s posts on Alpine Rescue in the Facebook Vectrex Fans group
Video of Alpine Rescue on youtube
Chris Romero’s posts on twitter
Wayback Machine archive of vectrex.com
Info about the 2023 ‘Vector War’ tournament