Tag Archives: Vectrex

Signed Game Boy Light – Game Circus ’98 Famitsu F-02 Edition

This item is truly a piece of history. To celebrate its 500th issue, Famitsu created the special “F-02″ model Game Boy Light, which could be obtained one of two ways. A mail order model came in a rather bland package, marked as an F-02 “Skeleton” model. The second “event” model, shown here, was distributed at [...]

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Video Game…Toast! Wait, Toast?

You read thast headline right – toast is the word of the day here at GameSniped. Of all the video game collectibles I’ve seen cross my path, these two have got to be some of the weirdest – even weirder that I came across both of them on a night of hunting! With little history [...]

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The Sears Catalog – A step back in time

I go to thrift stores at least two times a week mainly to look for games and other related items. So I often find myself scouring the aisles for any treasures. In this day and age, it’s almost impossible to forget that information can be had within reach thanks to the help of smart phones [...]

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Atari Jaguar Complete Cortina Web TV Adapter & Dev Items

Atari Jaguar Complete Cortina Web TV Adapter & Dev Items

There are a lot of never released but working prototypes out there for the Jaguar. The Voice Modem, the Cortina Web Adaptor, and several Jaguar VR units come to mind. What we have here today is the Cortina WebTV Adaptor which basically was meant to let you surf the web via your console. This auction [...]

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Complete Vectrex Mr. Boston

Complete Vectrex Mr. Boston

I don’t think we’ve mentioned Mr. Boston since 2007 and our World’s Most Expensive Video Games article. The Vectrex is a somewhat obscure system, especially outside of collector circles. It’s an 8-bit video game console that was developed by Western Technologies/Smith Engineering. it has an integrated monitor which displayed vector, as opposed to raster graphics. [...]

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