Tribute to Intellivision
 

Similar to the Atari one, but I was more of an Intellivision guy. Unfortunately, market share was much smaller so this may go nowhere.

Awesome 12-button keypad/joystick combo with overlays for each game:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...adowedinty.jpg

My all-time favorite game, Utopia (this screenshot doesn't do justice to all the crazy sh*t that can happen during the game):

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...2/Utopia-3.gif

Baseball, my favorite baseball sim until Baseball Stars for the Sega Genesis like 10 years later:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...Baseball-3.gif

Auto Racing. I wonder if a woman is driving the green car?:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...o_Racing-3.gif

Advanced D&D:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3..._Dragons-3.gif

NBA Basketball. The sweet stroke by the black player reminds me of D. Wade:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...sketball-3.gif

NFL Football:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...Football-2.gif

Night Stalker, one of their best-selling titles:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3..._Stalker-2.gif

Burgertime, this was bundled with the version console that I owned:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...ger_Time-2.gif

Bump 'N Jump...very good stress reliever, in this photo hero is actually high in the air and about to poz one of the enemy:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...p_n_Jump-2.gif

Horse Racing...nothing like learning how to lay an exacta when you're nine years old:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...e_Racing-3.gif

Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack...nothing like the dealer smiling at your misfortune:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...k__Poker-3.gif

Super Pro Basketball, a huge improvement over the previous version. You drafted players prior to each game:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...sketball-3.gif

SPB roster example...Flagpole Davis was always the best value in the draft:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...sketball-2.gif

Sea Battle:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...a_Battle-3.gif

Tennis...this one was lots of fun:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...2/Tennis-3.gif

Tron Deadly Discs:

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...ly_Discs-2.gif

B-17 Bomber. This game was outstanding, eff the Axis!!!

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...7_Bomber-2.gif

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Awesome... we had the Atari growing up, but my Mom's aunt had the Intellivision, and my brother and I would spend weekends there playing forever. Night Stalker and Burgertime ROCKED. Baseball was sweet too, even though you couldn't catch fly balls...

I remember loving AD&D and Auto Racing, but can't remember where I used to play them.

To date myself, I remember playing Tron Deadly Discs and Utopia at my buddy's place in 5th grade, listening to "We Built this City on Rock and Roll" [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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oh man i didnt have like 3-4 of those games and they look sweet!


i challenge anyone to baseball, tron, burgertime, bumb n jump or nightstalker.

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i used to be friends with this guy just so i could play utopia on his intellivision. for years.

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Piz -

In the course of doing research for my OP, I found out you can apparently d/l the games for free! Also I guess X-Box released about 60 titles on one disc some time recently.

Also, you clearly only talk trash because you know it's geographically unlikely I'll ever get the chance to own you at baseball.

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Also, you clearly only talk trash because you know it's geographically unlikely I'll ever get the chance to own you at baseball.

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omg ill wreck you.


YER OUT!

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oh man i didnt have like 3-4 of those games and they look sweet!


i challenge anyone to baseball, tron, burgertime, bumb n jump or nightstalker.

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Key to baseball intellivision of course was to immediatly hit ur shorstop once the pitch was thrown, then chase down the balls hit to right field. My favs are sea battle and skiing

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For some reason, my parents never bought an Atari or an Intellivision. Only an Odyssey 2. But a friend of mine did have an Intellivision and I loved it. Baseball was my fave.

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i used to be friends with this guy just so i could play utopia on his intellivision. for years.

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td,

This may sound ghey to this forum, but most games we had a "mutual non-agression" pact where we would just try to build our island better than the other guy. I.e. we wouldn't give each other rebels. To me, rebels are bad juju. If they happened on their own that was one thing, but it sucked to have a piece of premium property get replaced by a rebel.

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Piz -

Haha, it took me awhile to get that...the throaty robotic sounding voice they had on there. Creepy until you get used to it.

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Good thread tuq, talk about a blast from the past. I too grew up with one of these wonderful machines. Some great titles mentioned in the OP. I used to love Bugertime, Tron and Bump N Jump.

Some other games that rocked:

Atlantis - link

Dragonfire - link

Pitfall - link

Snafu - link

Triple Action - link

There was another one I loved that I think was called Pandemonium, but at a quick glance I can't see it mentioned anywhere.

Good times!

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i have to hold the world record for astrosmash on intellivision.

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Magellan -

Awesome post and links! Of the ones you listed, only Snafu and Triple Action do I recall. Well, I recall Pitfall, but I thought the Intellivision version was only marginally better than the Atari one (which was rare), so left it off.

Looking at your link for Triple Action, it's funny how much time they spent focusing on the biplane piece. But it's true, that was easily the best of the three. Nice pickup.

I can't find Pandemonium on the site I used, so not sure you're right about the title.

riverdance, I guess astrosmash was one of the most popular Intellivision titles, but I never really got into it for whatever reason, so left it off.

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This thread is the chit. I used to creep downstairs late at nite and watch my parents play nightstalker. I remember when my dad got to the invisible robot. I spent next couple of days trying to get to that level. Coolest audio tracks of any game. Only draw back to this system was the keypads would wear out and the disks too after a while.

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tuq,

us too! rebels were a no-no. pt boats were fair game though.

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I was an Atari kid myself...but had a couple of friends who had intellivision.

We played the football and the tron game quite a bit.
I wanted to play the baseball more but they weren't into that.

I had no idea that activision also made Pitfall for intellivision.
That game on Atari was awesome.

And I'm now reminded of other great activision games on Atari like Kaboom and Freeway, but this isn't an activision thread.


I remember Intellivision had all those TV commercials with George Plimpton bragging about the life-likeness of the graphics on the baseball and the other games.

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Also - I saw a cheapo plug-n-play (on your TV) for intellivision games at a Walgreens for $8 or something.
Think it included 10 games or so.

Came very close to making an impulse-buy.

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The best game ever written for a computer: M.U.L.E. I played it on my C-64 and still fire it up once in a while on my PC.

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Rich - while I don't disagree with your choice, it's totally out of line in the context of this thread.

Microbob - thanks. I may not be remembering the Pitfall difference well enough, but how complicated could it have been? You've got ponds, ropes, snakes, ladders, walls, etc. IIRC better graphics on Intellivision, but what's a playa gonna do? Ponds are ponds. In the video game world, apparently snakes hate without prejudice.

Also, I totally recall the Plimpton commercials. Great memory.

td, I like your style. PT boats were totally within the rules. You just don't eff with a brotha's land.

gwhiz - you don't know how bad that no-faced robot scared me as a kid. WHY CAN'T HE HAVE A FACE!!! Dammit. Also, the game made me feel like I should lock all the doors and windows to avoid being attacked by a robot or giant spider.

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Sadly I had never heard of Intellivision before reading about it a few days ago.

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My Dad had one of these when I was very young. Legend has it that I learned to read for the sole purpose of being able to figure out Intellivision instruction manuals.

You didn't mention one of the most crappily unique games of all time, the classic rock career simulator, It's Only Rock 'n' Roll.

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i used to be friends with this guy just so i could play utopia on his intellivision. for years.

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td,

This may sound ghey to this forum, but most games we had a "mutual non-agression" pact where we would just try to build our island better than the other guy. I.e. we wouldn't give each other rebels. To me, rebels are bad juju. If they happened on their own that was one thing, but it sucked to have a piece of premium property get replaced by a rebel.

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I loved this game and also had the "mutual non-aggression" rules in place. No PT boats to kill fishing boats and no rebels. There was enough shiet to deal with as it was(pirates, lightning, etc). I don't think I've ever played a game I enjoyed as much as this one in a long time.

DN

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Looking at your link for Triple Action, it's funny how much time they spent focusing on the biplane piece. But it's true, that was easily the best of the three. Nice pickup.

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Yeah the stuff they said about biplane cracked me up. That was one of the very first video games I ever played.

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I can't find Pandemonium on the site I used, so not sure you're right about the title.

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I scanned through the site you linked to and found it:

Demon Attack
http://www.server2.xgd.com/Screensho...n_Attack-2.gif


Don't know where the hell I pulled pandemonium from [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] probably some brilliant marketing on the cover. There was a crazy ass mothership at the end that took up like 1/3 of the screen. Scary stuff.

It's funny how my memory of these games has been warped over time, I haven't seen screenshots of this stuff in ages and had forgotten just how primitive the graphics were. No eye-candy here people, just solid gaming goodness [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img].

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Intellivision was excellent.

Atari 5200 < Atari 2600 < ColecoVision < Intellivision < NES < Genesis

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That dealer had a lot of tells.

Also: 9-6-2-7

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My parents only bought my brother and I one game system during our entire childhood, and this was it. I used to have to beg, borrow and steal to use other kid's 'real' systems. But that doesn't mean I wasn't a whiz at Burgertime and 'Advanced' Dungeons and Dragons.

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Great link! I loved Night Stalker and Burger Time but my all-time favorite Intellivision game was Beamrider...

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...5/671d4bbf.gif

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Bump 'N Jump = awesome.
Night Stalker = sweet game.
Burgertime = classic. I need to break it out when I get home.

Poker & Blackjack = I guess I have this to blame for being here. The fact that I knew basic blackjack strategy before going to kindergarten is thanks to this game.

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Uston - yessssssssssss, Beamrider ruled, not sure how I missed that one. Probably one of my top three.

octopi - due to the crash and subsequent drama, I don't think Intellivision was selling many new consoles after ~1985. Besides, I think NES came out about that time. Pretty unusual of your parents to stick you with something largely out of circulation.

DN - now that I think about it we probably didn't do PT boats either. It seemed kind of pointless, chasing the fishing boat around when you could be doing something productive, like fishing or planting crops just ahead of a cloud. Also, you forgot about the hurricanes! Those were badass, particularly when they slowly ripped through the opponent's infrastructure, then doubled back and took out a bunch more.

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octopi - due to the crash and subsequent drama, I don't think Intellivision was selling many new consoles after ~1985. Besides, I think NES came out about that time. Pretty unusual of your parents to stick you with something largely out of circulation.


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My parents were old schoolers. They had their old console, which my brother and I played up until 1992. After that, we started moving and lost the thing. I had to leech off my friends at that point. DAMN MY PARENTSSSS!

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I never had an intellivision. Had the 2600 and Colecovision, but I remember the video game crash fondly. All the 2600 games I could ever want for less than 5 bucks a piece. Those were the days.

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Bandits, twelve o'clock!

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Utopia was, by far, the best game.

They have a plug-and-play Intellivision game in stores these days. Something like 40 games...but I refuse to buy it because it doesn't have Utopia.

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Sorry to keep bumping my own thread but...

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Bandits, twelve o'clock!

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WATCH OUT FOR FLAK!

Good to see someone else knows that game.

Ocotopi, your youth sounds pretty unfortunate. Hopefully your parents at least allowed you to eat flesh.

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Sorry to keep bumping my own thread but...

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Bandits, twelve o'clock!

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WATCH OUT FOR FLAK!

Good to see someone else knows that game.

Ocotopi, your youth sounds pretty unfortunate. Hopefully your parents at least allowed you to eat flesh.

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Surprisingly, it was better than most. I've made up for it by finding a boyfriend with a huge Nintendo collection.

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My all-time favorite game, Utopia (this screenshot doesn't do justice to all the crazy sh*t that can happen during the game):

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j3...2/Utopia-3.gif

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wow - and i thought i was the only one out there.

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I still have intellivision. Gamecube released the games but it was awful.

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Well I never thought I would read a sentence that began with:

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I've made up for it by finding a boyfriend with a huge...

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and ended with:

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...Nintendo collection.

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This is surely a beacon of light to game nerds eveywhere. Nice work octopi!

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I had almost every game mentioned here back in the early/mid 80's. I had that attachment that gave certain game actual voice, but it was very bad. I never understood b17 bomber and that map. Super pro football was by far the best football game ever made.

I can also remember a game called sewer sam, possibly the cheesiest game of all time.

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Super pro football was by far the best football game ever made.

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I used to love the hail mary play. I would run all the back to my own end zone and get all the AI guys to follow then launch an 80 yard pass. Touchdown!!! Best football game was tecmo bowl though.