Ask any hardcore gamer who grew up in the 1980s to name what they believe to be the first portable gaming console. They’d probably answer with the Entex Electric Baseball game or those tiny, white ...

The Vectrex console from the early 1980s holds a special place in retrocomputing lore thanks to its vector display — uniquely for a home system, it painted its graphics to the screen by drawing them ...

It’s hard to find a system with a smaller library than the Mattel HyperScan. The gimmick of this console was that you could scan cards (that were sold separately, of course) to unlock new game perks.