Tribute to Intellivision

tuq · #1 06-28-2006, 07:05 PM

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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.

talentdeficit · #2 06-29-2006, 01:17 AM

tuq,

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

MicroBob · #3 06-29-2006, 01:31 AM

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.

MicroBob · #4 06-29-2006, 01:33 AM

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.

RichS · #5 06-29-2006, 01:36 AM

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.

tuq · #6 06-29-2006, 02:04 AM

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.

splashpot · #7 06-29-2006, 02:31 AM

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

DeezNuts · #8 06-29-2006, 06:35 AM

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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