The Vectrex is coming back… in pog form!

Well, in mini form! It's true! Your chance to play Vectrex games as if you were twice as large as you are now is coming soon.

https://chasingdings.com/2025/08/31/the-vectrex-is-coming-back-in-pog-form/

#Blaugust #Blaugust2025 #Vectrex #LightPen #MailPlane #MajorTom #MelodyMaster #spike #VectrexMini

Timeline: the origins of digital paint and draw software, and the tools that were developed to allow for hand drawing and painting: the mouse, light pen, and drawing tablet.

h/t @codepo8 #DigitalArt #TechHistory #mouse #LightPen #DrawingTablet #tools

https://kristenroos.ca/timeline

TIL...
I always thought the light pen port on the Tandy 1000 was for a barcode scanner like the Model 100, but it's not! It's actually for a light pen (imagine a mouse you held up to the screen to use.)

#Tandy1000 #LightPen

...if only more stores did this...

#LightPen #Atari #Atari8Bit #Commodore #C64 #JoystickPort #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd

[1983] The Complete Home Book
By Pamela Ferguson

#thomson #TO7 #8bit #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #LightPen #80s #90s #Geek #PlanInformatiquePourTous #IPT #Sicob1982 #Motorola #MC6809 #1MHz #FrenchSchools #ComputingForAllplan

Paint-N-Sketch Level II

#LightPen #Commodore #C64 #Apple #retrocomputer #retrogaming #videogames #Compo #Graphic #GFX #8bit #80s #90s #Geek

I Swear: This is the LAST Light Pen I buy ...this year. Turbo Charged even! lol

#Atari #Atari8Bit #C64 #LightPen #LightGun #JoystickPort #VintageComputing #RetroComputers #RetroGaming #WallOfRetro #NerdsOfVintage #HappyNerding #TheVintNerd