Tribute to Intellivision

[Magellan]

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!

[riverdance]

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

[tuq]

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.

[gwhiz_612]

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.

[talentdeficit]

tuq,

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

[MicroBob]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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