There are a few classic video games that rely on vector graphics and special monitors. Asteroids is incomplete if you’re not playing it in its original arcade format. The same goes with ...

For all its simplicity, the arcade classic Asteroids was engaging ... [Seb] was able to code a reasonably playable vector-graphic version of Asteroids on a large projections screen.

Vector eventually gave way to sprites, and sprites to polygons, but the first major truly 3D game got almost completely ignored despite I, Robot eventually getting recognized as an arcade classic.