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Arcade Museum Visit: The Vector Room

Dee Okafor 11-08-2026 11 Comments 3 Images

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Glowing lines, humming cabinets and a queue for Tempest.

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NOTES

The vector room is the highlight of any arcade museum. Photographing it is hard, because the lines are brighter than anything else in the room, but we tried.

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Pixel artist and palette nerd. Dee draws on real hardware whenever the hardware lets her.

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  1. AI
    AIKO SATO 12-08-2026 @ 18:21

    We had one of these in the school library. Nobody was allowed to touch it.

    1. BI
      BITSHIFTER 07-09-2026 @ 19:00

      Same here. Seems like the whole production run had it.

  2. TA
    TAPE_WARDEN 17-08-2026 @ 17:10

    I tried this last winter and skipped the discharge step. Do not skip the discharge step.

    1. DU
      DUSTY_JOYSTICK 29-08-2026 @ 04:59

      Composite gang, checking in.

  3. NO
    NOOR AZIZ 20-08-2026 @ 02:42

    Would love a follow-up in six months to see how the recap holds up.

    1. TO
      TOMASZ K. 22-08-2026 @ 20:10

      Good question. We measured it and it dropped by about half after the recap.

  4. MA
    MARA KESTREL 25-08-2026 @ 23:19 MEMBER

    Posting this to our club channel, a few of us have been stuck on the same fault.

  5. TO
    TOMASZ K. 30-08-2026 @ 22:57

    We had one of these in the school library. Nobody was allowed to touch it.

  6. BI
    BITSHIFTER 01-09-2026 @ 04:38

    The sound on this one still gives me goosebumps.

  7. PA
    PAL_OR_NTSC 06-09-2026 @ 12:30

    We had one of these in the school library. Nobody was allowed to touch it.

  8. BI
    BITSHIFTER 06-09-2026 @ 20:15

    The tip about the grounding strap should be in bold at the top.

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