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DOOM on the Vectrex Draws a Glowing Hell on a Forty Year Old Screen

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Milton Bradley shipped the Vectrex in 1982 as a complete arcade cabinet small enough for a coffee table. A screen, a speaker, a joystick, and a cartridge slot arrived in one case. Games showed up as bright strokes rather than blocks of color. Mine Storm, the pack-in, looked related to Asteroids because both were drawn […]

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Tamura Lumitime Clock Turns 1970s Mains Power Into Glowing Seven Segment Numbers With Gears and Contacts Alone

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Japanese company Tamura Electric sold the Lumitime as a stylish desk or wall clock throughout the mid to late 1970s, giving buyers the futuristic look of digital numerals when affordable LED and LCD panels were still dim, tiny, or simply not ready for living rooms. Mark Furneaux opened one of these machines and found no […]

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