WTB: Reasonably Priced Vectrex

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 10:43 am

I'm after a working Vectrex preferably with the Minestorm overlay. I'm tired of bidding on Ebay and being sniped constantly...it's really taint the fun out of 'buying' a Vectrex!

I'd like to pay around the £50 mark hopefully through Paypal. I have £100 to spend but I want to buy a multicart too.

Thanks in anticipation!

akator · Post by **akator** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 11:58 am

Best of luck, I hope you have an easier time with finding one at that price than I did

My first working Vectrex, good condition, 1 controller, 8 games = $175US shipped

My second Vectrex, mint, complete in box, 2 controllers = $249US shipped

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:44 pm

You'll be lucky to find one on eBay for under 50 quid, even though prices have come down a bit in the last few years. 75 quid is probably more the optimistic estimate of what you'll have to pay. I would then suggest getting a VecFlash to play anything you want, but Richard has stopped doing them now, in favour of an upcoming memory card version. I'd wait for that and buy it over ANY multicart, because you can customise whatever you wish to put on it...

Vic20-Ian · Post by **Vic20-Ian** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 12:53 pm

Pedro,

I have 2, you can take my second one if you want when I get back from Q.

I don't think I have the overlay though.

I will be coming to Edinburgh week of 10th May.

Ian

matsondawson · Post by **matsondawson** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:19 pm

I paid aus$200 (us$180) for mine. I'm currently in the middle of replacing all the caps on it. Wouldn't mind a boxed one. But I haven't seen any in New Zealand and the prices on e-bay are ridiculous.

vic user · Post by **vic user** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:25 pm

it was a joy playing some games on ral-clan's Vectrex, when he brought it over to my place, a couple of years back.

I think I really enjoyed Scramble, on it.

What a cool system.

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 4:43 pm

Ian, that sounds good. Will you manage it up okay? Btw, how's the big Q?:)

Mayhem, is it Richard who is planning the new flash cart or us it someone else? Oh, and is there a time frame for it (that you know of?). And while you're at it how much do you want for the Android cart?! :p

vic user, it is a mighty cool system. Unique in a number of ways and has aged incredibly well.

I have only ever played it through emulation but have decided enough is enough - it's time for the real deal! I have wanted one for as long as I can remember but never got around to picking one up until now. After considering buying an Intellivision out of curiousity I thought I'd be better spending that money on something I've always wanted.

akator · Post by **akator** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:20 pm

Sure, the VecFlash will be great, but I wanted a multicart for my Vectrex in the meantime. I bought the 72-in-1 multicart a few months ago and have been very pleased with it. It was £49.99, which is pretty reasonable when compared to most multicarts I've purchased over the last few years...

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 5:52 pm

The VecFlash cost less than that... which is why today unless multicart sellers can offer their product for say £10-15, then it's not worth it by comparison.

Pedro Lambrini wrote:Mayhem, is it Richard who is planning the new flash cart or us it someone else? Oh, and is there a time frame for it (that you know of?). And while you're at it how much do you want for the Android cart?! :p

Yeah Richard is in the middle of developing a memory card version of the Vectrex flash cart. It'll work like the Cuttlecarts for example, you load the ROMs on the SD cart and put it into the cartridge to run them. Dunno when it will be ready, but if he's stopped making the VecFlash then it must be sufficiently far along.

As for Android, £750 minimum with the likelihood increasing slightly with more money... which isn't very likely

akator · Post by **akator** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:25 pm

Mayhem wrote:The VecFlash cost less than that... which is why today unless multicart sellers can offer their product for say £10-15, then it's not worth it by comparison.

Wow, I had no idea it was that inexpensive. I didn't have a Vectrex in 2007, so I wasn't in the market. Because of that, until now the only thing I knew about the VecFlash price was from this multicart thread at AtariAge which said it was $80US. The only VecFlashes I've seen for sale in the last several months were much higher than $80, and therefore the 72-in-1 cart didn't seem like a bad deal at all...

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 8:38 pm

I think it came down a little, I believe mine was $70 (or the equivalent 40 quid in UK terms iirc) and that was middle of last year. But technology changes with time and I guess Richard feels this solution is a better option; it might be cheaper to make and more "reliable" as the storage flash media is easily removed and replaced if corrupt.

Post by **Jeff-20** » Sat Apr 24, 2010 9:54 pm

Did you guys notice someone else using the name "MegaCart"? It's for the O2.

akator · Post by **akator** » Sun Apr 25, 2010 11:19 pm

Jeff-20 wrote:Did you guys notice someone else using the name "MegaCart"? It's for the O2.

How odd. I did a ton of searches a while back for O2 multicards, and I never came across that one. Then again, from reading the specs, maybe that was a good thing...

Post by **Jeff-20** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 1:26 am

There are some systems I just can't get into: O2, 3DO, Jaguar . . . And there are systems I adore that most people seem to ignore: Astrocade, Saturn, Vic 20 . . .

Pedro Lambrini · Post by **Pedro Lambrini** » Mon Apr 26, 2010 3:13 am

^
I haven't tried the Astrocade but for some reason I love the Saturn and not necessarily for the usual games (ie/PDS or Burning Rangers). I actually really enjoy playing Doom, Alien Trilogy...all the multi platform stuff. Which is strange as I just can't get into the Playstation and all these games are on it. The Saturn certainly has the best by far digital controller IMO. Maybe that's something to do with it...