Golgo 14 wrote:ElkinFencer10 wrote:I still hold that the Vectrex is the most objectively COOL system ever.
What are your thoughts on overlays? I've been playing Mine Storm for a couple days with the repro overlay that it came with. The screen seemed sort of washed out, but I figured that was due to the hardware being more than 40 years old. Tonight I took off the overlay and the screen was as sharp and as beautiful as the test unit I saw in a toy store back in 1983. It'd be nice to have a bit of color, but now I'm thinking that overlays are kind of like a video game prophylactic. And while it's true that I don't know where my Vectrex has been, I'm willing to take the risks for greater retrogaming pleasure.
I admittedly have never had any overlays and never bought any repros, but I love the sharp, crisp monochomatic vector graphics, so I probably wouldn't use them even if I had them.