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fredster:
I agree with Asteroids description.  The vector monitors had tracers that made the feel of the game.  Without it, Asteroids has little dots that don't show the full blast like the original.

I have an asteroid's "kit".  I have everything execpt for the monitor and powersupply for the monitor.   I looked around for them and it's about as cheap to buy a fully assembled game than the vector monitor.

Where do you get vector monitors except on EbaY?

ErikRuud:
I think it was Cinematronics monitors that caught on fire.

I was reading a write up by one of the Cinematronics programmers, and he said some thing about they had to make sure that the beam didn't draw off the bottom of the screen because it could cause the monitor to fail.

Edgedamage:
It was the Electohome G08's that were fire starters. There is web sites that show how to change the transistors to stop them from becoming fire hazards. Space fury was the unlucky cab that had them and lots of them were damaged by the monitors or converted quickly by operators. Who were worried about their arcades going up in smoke. I even remember the arcade in my neighbourhood had space fury for two weeks. When the owner found out about the possible fire hazard the game was removed. There is a cool looking robotron based vector game in the xbox game PGR2. just go into the garage and walk up to the videogame cabinet and press a button and you start playing.

NoOne=NBA=:
I remember reading something about a vectorMAME hack awhile back that used one of the laser generators like they use at the "lightshows".

They said it worked well on things like a wall in your house, but would even project onto low cloud cover to play.

I never did see pics of it in action; so I'm not sure if it was a real project, or a WIP, though.

Frostillicus:
ah Zektor.  Read here...

Trouble with vector monitors (beyond the obvious reliability issues) is that they are few and far between.  It'd suck to hack up a classic for this, and even used color XY's go for like 500-600 'as is' on ebay.  Really not much of a market for this...unless someone decides to reissue XY monitors, which is probably never going to happen  :(

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