What's your favorite Intellivision game?

@joanaardvark637

3 жыл бұрын

BurgerTime!

@Bikeguychicago1

3 жыл бұрын

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, TRON Deadly Discs & Solar Sailer, Burgertime, Bump 'n' Jump, Beauty & the Beast, Dreadnaught Factor, Mind Strike

@dumpnchase

3 жыл бұрын

Worm Whomper!

@MeinLein

3 жыл бұрын

AD&D, burgertime, lock'n chase, b17 bomber, utopia, and microsurgeon; honorable mentions to night stalker, space hawk, and astrosmash.

@dbranconnier1977

3 жыл бұрын

Commando, Demon Attack, Lock N Chase, Space Armada, Astrosmash and Chip Shot Pro Golf

I was born in 1970 in Lancaster, Pa. I grew up in a neighborhood with a lot of kids who had atari 2600. I told my dad we have to get an atari 2600. Wewent to the mall and he bought an intellivision with a bunch of games!! When wegot home and got it hooked up I couldn't put it down!! All I wanted to do was play Intellivision. Often my dad would play it with me! The good old days!! Thanks for the video!!

@fritzytv9285

2 жыл бұрын

I loved that system. My friend Will Play Horse Racing while making bets! Lol

@dab5740

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1971. We did not have much money, but somehow my dad saved and surprised me with an Itellivision. Like you, I was hooked. I can’t tell you how many countless hours we spent playing Sea Battle and Utopia. Maybe my favorite games on the system followed by Advanced Dungeons & Dragons. So many great titles.

@deborahchesser7375

Жыл бұрын

When we went to the mall shopping with my parents, my brother and I would disappear into Sears for hours at a time playing the demo game they had set up. My Mom and Dad were standing there watching us play end I still remember them looking at each other and smiling. They saw the potential of that beautiful game right then and there.

@douglasfreeman3229

Жыл бұрын

I love it! You could just say "Dad we must have an intellivision" and he just goes and buys one! Christ, I asked my mum for a 50p Dr.Who paperback in about 1976 and my dad clipped me round the ear. Good old days for some!

@deborahchesser7375

Жыл бұрын

@@douglasfreeman3229 yeh we got lucky at times we didn’t get everything we wanted of course but we did OK with a lot less than kids have now

You guys completely missed the Intellivoice Synthesis Module and limited run of talking games, with an impressive voice modulator. (for the time, anyway) With games such as Bomb Squad and B17 Bomber, it was an impressive addition to the console. Mine still works!

@davelowets

Жыл бұрын

That thing annoyed the living shit out of me... 😒

@R.B.

Жыл бұрын

Uh oh! That was not a target!

@Ploobstill

Жыл бұрын

@@R.B. Watch out for flack!!

@R.B.

Жыл бұрын

@@Ploobstill Bandits 3 o'clock!

MAJOR GAFFE that you did not even mention B-17 Bomber and the Intellivoice module. This was groundbreaking videogame news and rocked the industry.

@JC-dx3fy

Жыл бұрын

B17 Bomber & Intellivoice made my house the place to be everyday after school

@RichardCraig

Жыл бұрын

Bae-seventaen Baohmer!

@pinkyskeleton5410

Жыл бұрын

B17 Bahhhhhmmmaarrr. I can still hear it today.

@timstappler5522

Жыл бұрын

Fighters 3 o'clock....bombs away!!!

@thomaso5176

Жыл бұрын

@@timstappler5522 "That was close!" LOL

I loved the look of the Intellivision. It looked like the dashboard of my 78 Cutlass Supreme.

As a kid born in 1980, we had an Intellivision...and got made fun of for it not being an Atari. As I got older, I got made fun of because I had an Intellivision and not a Nintendo. I still loved my Intellivision none the less. Still have it and play it today.

@nickperkins8477

Жыл бұрын

Intellivision had better graphics than the Atari 2600.

@ian_b

Жыл бұрын

I'm a bit surprised at that. I never owned either, but trying the Intellivision on display in shops, it was impressive compared to the Atari, which was already starting to look old fashioned. Mind you, the Atari 2600 died much faster here in the UK than in the USA, swept away by home computers. I've thought for a long time that the American Video Game Crash was that moment in a bubble when everyone suddenly realised the Atari was old cr*p, and the contribution of Pac Man and ET was just to make everyone realise that. Anyway, the Intellivision had way better graphics and sound, and even those weird controllers seemed more advanced than the Atari's wrist-breaking joystick.

@nickperkins8477

Жыл бұрын

@@ian_b pac-man was brilliant, as pure gameplay. In those relatively early days, that was enough for me. I was about 3 and 4 years old at the time and was unschooled in graphic comparison. ET as a game was even worse than anyone has heard. Awful graphics atrocious slow pointless gameplay. I had friends who had Intellivision. While I absolutely recognized it was better than Atari, I was not the slightest bit jealous. Somewhat oddly, in retrospect. 😃

@pbandj37

Жыл бұрын

I think that the Atari issue for me as a kid was more related to the fact that everyone around us had an Atari hence it was the system to have. And kids will find and exploit things that are different. I liked the game choice and controller for the Intellivision better than Atari....but once the NES came out, it was the Atari kids versus me again and this time they had a point. I still enjoy my Intellivision and got a NES about 15 years ago. I enjoy both immensely and have my kids play them.

@nickperkins8477

Жыл бұрын

@@ian_b actually Pac Man was hugely popular and successful for Atari. It was Atari’s version of the Super Mario Brothers game franchise, albeit only featuring the single game, plus Ms. Pac Man. I was extremely young, as I have said. But even so, I believe the ET game was the most efficient contributor to Atari’s demise in The States. It was absolutely rancid.

burgertime was a gem

I had the Radio Shack knock off version the Tandyvision One. It was very much identical in every way and about $50.00 cheaper. My mom was a single mom and went all out on Christmas. As a very poor kid seeing that I can never thank her enough. God bless moms everywhere.

@davebaker7503

2 ай бұрын

My parents bought mine from Sears. It was exactly the same except it was white. Much cheaper as well.

My favorite Christmas present in 1981...loved this system (thanks mom and dad!). Football, Baseball, and and B-17 Bomber (Intellivoice) were my favorite games. Such great memories from my childhood.

@joeterzio7175

2 жыл бұрын

I totally forgot about Intellivoice. Yes, baseball and B-17 Bomber (I had forgotten about that game) were probably two of the most-played games for me and my brother.

@Inertia888

Жыл бұрын

Me too. And as much as I loved this machine back then, and as much fun we had together back then, knowing now, just how much it cost my parents, at the time, makes me feel so much more grateful for what they gave to me.

Loved Utopia, Sub Hunt, Pole Position, NFL, Sea Battle, D&D. Triple action was so much fun with biplanes,racing and tanks. I am sure there were others I have forgotten. Those were the days of being a teenager when only responsibilities of school, TV and video games.

@Scotty-Z70

Жыл бұрын

I played Utopia all summer long. Now I play Minecraft all the time. Minecraft is sort of the great-great-great-grandchild of Utopia (Sim City is also down the line related)

@tims2501

Жыл бұрын

@@Scotty-Z70 I still recall one game of Utopia where I was playing my brother and I was winning by developing my country and he knew he could never catch me so he started planting rebels is my country. Made me so mad. I felt like it was cheating. To this day I hate when the US tries to sabotage other nations. Loved the hurricanes that popped up too. It was such a cool model of real world.

@Scotty-Z70

Жыл бұрын

@@tims2501 i rarely played it with other people. it was fun alone.

@tims2501

Жыл бұрын

@@Scotty-Z70 Most games that was case too. In sub hunt my goal was to get ahead of the convoy and then just go dead stop and wait for convoy to pass over me and then I would come up to periscope depth and pick off the targets. That was really quite an advanced simulation too. Fun times.

@Scotty-Z70

Жыл бұрын

@@tims2501 i've never played that game. interesting.

Intellivison was awesome. Spent many a hour playing the games they came out with. School work suffered greatly.

I was one of the 1 of 500 people that had the "Keyboard Component" of Intellivision. They had a recall at one point. It was a failed attempt to create an Intellivision computer. It was amazing what they could deliver on a tape drive that was software controlled.

Good rundown of the system. I played thousands of hours of Intellivision in my early teens and look back on that system with much nostalgia.

@dckmusic

2 жыл бұрын

I still have one (not my original one, that is a painful story for which I will not go into) with about 115 cartridges and it works well still. I did buy the new classic machine to save wear and tear on the old machine, but all the Imagic games aren't included, so still have to fire up the original sometimes.

@francistaylor1822

Жыл бұрын

Just pick yourself up one. Pity I cant find a multi cart for mine though (I also bought the flashback which does the trick as well)

This was my second console, the first being the Fairchild Channel F. But the Intellivision was the first console I ever really got "into" and loved! I had 45 games, and had it from 1979 to 1988 before I switched to computers full time. (The last console I ever owned was the N64). The Intellivision was amazing, and had some of the greatest games ever made for a console, even compared to today's monstrosities. I have, of all things, an Atari 2600 I picked up as a collector's item, and a few games, but what I really want, and am in the process of acquiring, is the Intellivision and a batch of games. Hopefully I'll get one soon, because the emulator on my PC just doesn't do it, even though the games are a perfect match for their cartridge counterpoints.

@joemom1012

2 жыл бұрын

my first was in late 60s it had 3 games tanks tennis / pong i had loads of martel hand held games including the footbal one on here also ice hocky basket ball baseball ok then my freinds had atari you could go to toy section of store play the atari and this new game intelvision i played boxing skiing and night stalker asked for that for christmass ever since owning it that was the consol for me

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Hi, just wondering? How was the Fairchild? It's one of the few consoles I've never played. How were the controls? Any standout games? Any feedback would be awesome! Cheers from Canada

@CarnorJast1138

Жыл бұрын

@@steveharvey2102 Howdey! It's been a LOOOONG time since I played that system, but from what memories I can conjure up, it was fun. The graphics were crude compared to even the Intellivision I got later. The controls were probably not the strong suit of the system. They consisted of a joystick-like controller, with a triangle top that you pushed in the direction you wanted to go, and pushed down on it to fire or whatever the game called for. Most games were of the pong like or tank battle like games we saw back then. Very little in the way of detail. No really true standouts, since the games were colorful versions of what we saw on other systems. Most of my memories are undoubtedly tainted from that time period, and if I had one today, I'd probably not play it much. The Intellivision was vastly superior in almost every aspect compared to the Fairchild AND the Atari 2600. What's ironic, is I have an Atari 2600 and must say, there is a kind of charm to those games I do have for it. I have an Intellivision Emulator for my PC, and the games are true to their cartridge counterparts, but the keyboard just doesn't "do it" for those games like the controller that the Intellivision had. I DO want to get one of these one day. Then I'll have both systems, the Atari 2600 and the Intelivision that I grew up with as a kid! Cheers from Texas! Hope I was able to answer your questions as best as I could! 🙂

I had an Intellivision back in 1981. AT 9 years old I saved up the money to buy it on my own (which back then was saying something). We went with the Intellivision specifically because of the computer feature, but gave up in 1983 and got an Apple IIe. There was a way to hold the controller to hit the directional pad and the side buttons at the same time. Honestly, there were only a handful of games that even made use of the number pad during game play, and even few that had the buttons do much more than just be numbers. The football game allowed you to key in your play with either a 2 or 5 digit code (run or pass). Baseball the number keys determined who you threw the ball to, and Night Stalker had the number keys allow you to fire in 4 directions. The biggest drawback (especially with the first generation console) was that the curly controller cord would always pull back against the controller and the connections would eventually become loose and the controller wouldn't work. Since they were hard wired in, the entire machine would need to be taken in for servicing.

@jcraigshelton

Жыл бұрын

Now THAT is saying something! Because in 1981, a new Intellivision console cost a cool $300. That’s the equivalent of mowing 30 lawns for a kid! And the discipline in took a nine year old to hang onto that cash is noteworthy.

@aaronsugar7228

Жыл бұрын

@@jcraigshelton I probably spent a good 7 or 8 months saving - for my Birthday that year I just asked for money towards the game, and my grandfather kicked in the last $100 after I saved up $200.

2023 and I am still playing Intellivision games with my brother and cousins, albeit with an emulator, not a console. Nonetheless, Utopia, Atlantis, Swords and Serpents, Demon Attack and many others are still getting a ton of play at my house. These games bring back awesome memories of a really great time to grow up. Long live Intellivision!

Parents got us one of these about ‘81. Beat the snot out of Atari which some of my friends had and seemed crude. Always surprised my parents got this for us this as we were poor. Lots of good memories of playing Armor Battle, Sea Battle, and Our favorite 2 player game, Auto Racing, with my dad. Only complaint was controllers wore out in 2-3 years but we got new ones and kept playing until they were no longer available. I remember the video game crash around ‘83-‘84 when people were saying they were a fad and they were going away. Couple years later Nintendo came out and started the game console craze all over again. Never got into Nintendo though. We couldn’t afford the new consoles which were more expensive and grew out of video games for several years until I got into PC games. Good times.

@johnbeckwith1361

Жыл бұрын

Jeeze, your story is exactly my story! Except I wish my dad had played games with me.

@areguapiri

Жыл бұрын

You were not poor.

@planet6393

Жыл бұрын

The invisible mines were cool in Armor Battle!

Yes I did call it Body Surgeon instead of Microsurgeon, No I have no idea how that was missed in sevral proofreads! It's particularly silly when the right title is right there on screen

My childhood system! What memories. Baseball and football were the bomb. I was a Astrosmash champ!

I also remember the Intellivoice add on too. There were so many cool games for Intellivision! I liked Demon Attack.

Mattel not only got the main processor by General Instruments but the whole chip set with the graphics and sound chip. It was 125 original games between 1979 and 1990. The homebrew scene has produced more than 100 games in the last 20 years for the Intellivision. Btw. the Odyssey2 was quite successful in Europe and South America.

@SeahorseFarrier

Жыл бұрын

I remember an Odyssey II game like Dungeons and Dragons that kept me enthralled. hah, to be so innocent again...

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Hi, are you talking about The Odyssy 1 or 2? I'm assuming it's the 2nd one, but you know what they say about assuming. Lol Cheers from Canada

@martinmartinez250

Жыл бұрын

I think you are correct. I would have to ask my father. He was an Engineering Manager at Mattel Electronics. He was in charge of moving production of Intellivision from GI on the East Coast to Hong Kong. BTW Of course our family had most of the games and the keyboard unit with 6502. Sidenote many of the Engineering Managers were from Rockwell Microelectronics which second sourced the 6502 and also built the earlier handhelds.

@uphilliceskater

Жыл бұрын

@@martinmartinez250 Consider interviewing your father for a video, or get him on one of these KZread shows. Show off hardware you may have.

@freeculture

Жыл бұрын

IIRC intv was a rare cpu architecture, 16 bit but using 12 bit instructions, running at half a megahertz. I only saw a single Odyssey2 in my life, a friend had it, wasn't too bad but almost no games for it.

My dad had this back in the day and was so thankful I got to play it! I am a later generation growing up with the orginal nes. My father busted this out the closet when I was super little and let me play it and I remember really liking it ! Playing games such as burger time and many more games. Since my fathers recent passing my oldest brother now has this console. So glad it’s still in the family and something he can enjoy since he grew up with it.

We first had the Sears version then when that wore out got the Intellivision II. Couldn’t tell you how many hours my dad and I(along with some friends) would play NFL football and MLB baseball.

@supercoolyguy

3 жыл бұрын

Great sports games.

Thank you guys for posting all these videos.. getting better every time

First Atari 2600 on the block. I used to have the neighborhood kids come over to play on it. But a friend got an Intellivision when it came out, and we quickly decided it was a superior product...with the exception of the controllers. Though they could do things a 1-button joystick could not, they were not as robust, didn't hold up to eager 10-year-olds very well, and we often had some input problems. My friend struggled with them wearing out faster. I still remember a weekend sleep-over in which several of us played Sea Battle for hours. It was the most sophisticated home game we'd seen to that point and we were fascinated by it.

Had one in our house in 1981. A lot of great fun. Thanks for the retro video. Love it.

I remember staying up way past my bedtime with my older brother trying to get as far as we could on Astrosmash. Tron Deadly Disks was awesome too

I still remember that Christmas when we got ours and played the heck out of Astrosmash that day. The sports games were great, with the 2nd basketball game where you customize your team being ahead of it's time. So many great memories.

HAD GREAT Times playing with MY Friends back in the day. Thanks again for the info.

AD&D was why I wanted a Intellivison. It just blew my mind at the time.

Well-produced video. This was just before my era as I was an NES and C64 kid, but this video was extremely interesting and engaging. I rate it a 5/5! Thanks.

I can still remember vividly getting off the bus after school, walking in the front door, and seeing my dad sitting cross-legged in front of the TV playing Astrosmash. Good times! And did anybody else look for shortcuts thru the trees in auto racing?

I have never played intellivision as I grew up with a colecovision and own one today which I absolutely love! The more videos I see about the intellivision the more it does peak my interest… great video!

@freeculture

Жыл бұрын

The Colecovision was a great console, the only thing was the unique disc controller, many people don't get how great those were, its a 16 directions control, not 4 like everyone else. Not all games made use of it, but in those games that did, like Sea Battle, its a experience you could only get later with analog controls. Instead the Colecovision wasted people's money with custom controls for like 1 or 2 games, like that driving wheel or that trackball.... But what i don't get is how they managed to make such a blunder with the Adam.

Great documentary! I own a Mattel IntelliVision 2, and enjoy it immensely.

When I was in my early 20's a friend brought over his shiny new Atari 2600...he was blown away by it's capabilities, but I found it lacklustre and boring. (I lacked the imagination to recognize the potential of moving graphics across a screen) In my mid 20's another friend brought over his new Intellivision. I expected to be similarly unimpressed, but this time the graphics were not flickering blocks, Baseball looked like baseball and the Space game he had was jaw dropping. But as you said, this was the advent of the home computer. The Intellivision was clearly superior to the 2600, but it was seeing arcade games on a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A that finally parted my money from my wallet. It remains a daily driver computer for me (and what I use to play Bump 'n Jump today (called Bounce and Pounce on the TI) ). But my interest on what was possible, and the decision that I wanted to be part of this new frontier, lays at the feet of Mattel, and the Intellivision. It fired my imagination in a way Atari would not do until the ST line of computers over a decade later. Thank you for the video. 'Twas excellent!

There was so much that needed to be brought up for this video that I didn't find time to discuss the Mattel Aquarius, which we've covered on our other channel in the past

@CarbonatedLithium

3 жыл бұрын

The Aquarius, while kind of interesting, showed up in the market for a few months in 1983 and happened during the great video game crash. It really is just a footnote to the Intellivision story in my opinion.

A commonly overlooked chapter in the Intellivision timeline is the Tutorvision, a joint partnership with World Book Encyclopedia which was INTV's attempt to branch out into the new-at-the-time "edutainment" market. Three of the 16 titles developed for it have been discovered so far, and I created an indie title last summer to add to its limited library.

@steveharvey2102

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Never heard of this before. So are you saying this was an Intelliviion system that played only those 16 Educational games? Was it ever available for retail? Any info or links to informative videos would be greatly appreciated :) Cheers from Canada

@intylab

Жыл бұрын

@@steveharvey2102 Yep. It was a last-gen Intellivision console that had a few modifications: 4x Graphics RAM, additional 16-bit RAM, expanded Executive ROM, a slightly modified graphics chip, and a new system font. INTV ran out of money just after it was showcased at the Summer 1989 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, and 3 or 4 prototype units were found so far. One of those units ended up in the right hands to be fully reverse-engineered, and as a result, jzIntv now supports Tutorvision emulation. That's why I wrote a program that supports the extra hardware features.

I had an original intellivision in the early 80's and it had a threaded hole in the center of the control disc on the controller that you screw a stick into to make it a joystick.

Wow! Really fantastic and well done video! Thank you for helping to keep the Intellivision name alive! Loved this! Will make sure to promote this on our Intellivision social media channels!

@danielrjones

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much for watching the video. Sharing the video would be awesome! We pre-ordered an Amico (of course in Vintage Woodgrain) and are really looking forward to it. Also, I just watched your office tour video and really enjoyed it. Your office is really cool!

@TommyTallarico77

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielrjones Thanks Daniel! I'll be promoting your video this week!

@fordxbgtfalcon

3 жыл бұрын

I can't wait for the Amico Tommy, I have one on pre-order, the classic wood grain model.

Thanks for such a great channel. Your videos are so well done and bring back so many great memories. My first console was an Atari 2600 (actually a Sears Tele-Games branded) somewhere around 1980. My friend had the Intellivision and I was so jealous because the graphics were so superior to me and the console also looked futuristic. Good times.

@davelowets

Жыл бұрын

My friend traded me his Intellevision and games for my Atari 2600.... 😳 That was HIS loss.... 😂 I was afraid to tell my dad, and he caught me coming in the house with a large box containing the system I had just traded for, and when he saw what I had done he gave me a high five, a pat on the back, and told me "good job". I was SO relieved.. 😆

As a kid I wanted one of these so bad. I didn't even know what games it had lol - I just loved the look of it. Like alien tech with all the gold brushed metal paneling.

It's 2021 and I am still waiting to buy a Smellivision.

My favorite Christmas gift ever. I still remember 9219 as my go to play in Football, and loved Skiing, Sea Battle and Utopia.

Awesome video. +1 subscriber. I look forward to seeing more videos covering the video game industry.

I was 12 when our family got both Atari and the original intellivision. I remember preferring Intellivision over the Atari. It had better graphics and more complex game play, or more depth to the games is how I see it. Atari's Pitfall vs Intellivision's version was a great example. My parents did good, restricted my game playing time to a few hours a day so I still spent my time playing outside unlike kids today...good times, good times.

I just got my first Intellivision, and started collecting for it about a month and a half ago. So far, I've not really found any games that I am doing backflips over. I find I actually like the Atari 2600 versions a bit better, because the controls are easier and more responsive. It is an awesome console though, and really brought a lot of advancement to the table in the '80s. I love how you have the video clips of people making deals and packing up their offices regarding the Intellivision, and they all have modern laptops sitting on the desk. Hahaha. Not many authentic video clips of that kind of stuff from back in the '80s! Great work, keep it up guys!

@OriginalJoe

Жыл бұрын

Some games I remember playing- SNAFU (kind of like Tron motorcycles concept), Burger Time (arcade game if I remember), Sea Battle (he mentioned), Astrosmash, Pitfall (Activision game), B 17 Bomber (requires Intellivoice module), and for sure sports games- I think baseball and soccer were good. Best of luck finding the gems.

@Dlatest

Жыл бұрын

There was also Tron Maze game, Tron Deadly disc's game and a Tron Light Sail game that used the voice

I was born in 1973 in Toronto and my neighbor had it and we would go play Astrosmash! We loved it so much that We begged our Dad for one and he got it with Baseball, Tron Deadly Discs, Night Stalker and Lock N Chase, Skiing, Soccer and Sea Battle..which was my fav! Loved the cheering in the sports games!

Exciting times... Intellivision, Atari, Coleco! Computers were also beginning to arrive. I fondly remember the TV ads, stores ads in the mail and newspaper. The kiosk displays in stores like Sears, Kmart, JC Penny's, Toys R Us, etc. The excitement of new releases and addons. Maybe there were but I dont remember shortages back in those days, having to stand in line for new releases.

Great video! The only thing I wish you could add is the actual games being played. I loved my Intellivision! I had a long run when I was in junior high when I came straight home after school and played Night Stalker every day. The race car game was intriguing also because you raced through neighborhoods and could drive off road, through yards, and get way off course. I wondered if the designers anticipated this because it seemed like there were Easter eggs locations you could drive to. Anyone else remember that?

@steverogers2603

Жыл бұрын

@Neb6 auto racing

Had a Intellivision, and later a Intellivision Ii, when the former wore out. One thing I remember is how the console would heat up over time, and you'd have to turn it off at some point to avoid heat damage. The Intellivision II didn't have that problem.

@CarsandCats

Жыл бұрын

I remember it got very warm in the upper right corner I think.

There are actually 125 games that are considered to be original releases for the system. The 'homebrew' scene is actually quite active. I'm surprised that you didn't mention recent releases such as Defender of the Crown.

@Mc7wis7

Жыл бұрын

LOL. I love doing speedruns of DotC

Very nice video, keep up the good work!

I had an Intellivision growing up and aside from Atari-envy, I loved it. I definitely enjoyed the games on it and as you showed clips I was like "Oh, I remember that one!" and such. Which I guess makes sense considering you're saying it had a small game library. I have particular memories about their version of space invaders which you briefly shows in the video where 'demons' would swoop down at your land based turret in waves. I remember playing this at xmas time on my Aunt's bedroom TV set (the main one was for the adults), but as I was playing and got towards the game end, my father and Uncle were around hanging curtains or something and I remember my father, who never before or after expressed ANY interest in video games insisted that they take a break and watch me beat the game...which I did. I was never a sports star or musically inclined or anything, so this kind of accomplishment based attention from my father was rare for me. It was this strange moment that has remained laser-engraved in my brain every since.

@billmcintyre3652

Жыл бұрын

I was 4 years old in 1981 and I got Intellivision for Christmas. My birthday is January 1 so when I turned 5 I met a girl that became my first Girlfriend because Kimberly had an Atari 2600. I remember being 5 years old playing Pac Man on her Atari and thought to myself this is nothing like the Pac Man at the Bowling Alley and these games don't even look nearly as good as my Intellivision games. Funny thing was during the video game crash of '83 my father brought us home the motherload and we got an Atari 2600 with about 12 games and then for Christmas the holy grail a ADAM Colecovision Computer. Coleco was smart and made Donkey Kong the pack-in game. Much better than Poker/BlackJack my intellivision came with. After we got the ADAM Colecovision all of a sudden my Intellivision and Atari2600 started gathing quite a bit of dust. However in 1981 Intellivision game "Triple Action" was the game that got me hooked on gaming. Triple Action really should have been the pack in title for the Intellivision.

I was one of the Intellivision testers in El Segundo, CA. Received a test unit for my time spent testing. It was way ahead of the industry at that time.

that brought back some memories, couldnt believe my dad got me one for xmas. many hours playing it

I got mine at the Gottschalks store in Manchester Center, in Fresno on May 2, 1983. I remember it well because as we were walking out of the store there was a big earthquake near Coalinga, and it shook the store pretty well. My favorite games were B-17 Bomber and the one where you defused the bomb.

This was my first console (thanks dad!). I loved it and had several great games for the system that I played for years, right next to my NES. Loved the intellivoice as well. B-17 bomber was amazing at the time.

@TheOceanLoader

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! The voice module was awesome. Lots of fun!

Sea Battle was a great game. Spent hours playing with friends of my youth. The D&D game was iconic as well.

I remember going with my dad to Gemco in Tempe Arizona when he bought this system. I was about to start Kindergarten and I rememember talking to my teacher on the Sunday before the first day of school. This was back in the day when teachers would call you to welcome you to a new school year. I remember my dad whispering to me to tell her about the new Intellivision system we just got.

I remember trying to play one of these as a kid (who hated sports) support and giving up in frustration at the confusing controller. Great research. I find the stock footage appropriately hilarious.

@evelioperez-vitier8236

Жыл бұрын

I never liked the controller until we found this aftermarket joystick conversion gadget that you stuck to the original button.

I had one in high school…around 1982ish. My parents subscribed to a cable offering that provided approx 10 - 15 games a week or month. They changed out and new games were offered. They provided all the controller sleeves for all games so you were ready to go when the games changed out. Still purchased a few…baseball was may favorite. My friend and I picked teams and kept a score boom for each game we played. We had player stats, etc…..good time! We played so. I h that we wore out the controllers.

I loved skiing and this was the best Xmas present ever when I was 13 years old.

Auto racing, Astro Smash, Tanks and Baseball were all night fun for a kid in the early 80's good times..

I recall the Intellivision. We had one when I was much younger. I loved it. I enjoyed playing Sea Battle the most. Ahhh, so nostalgic. I smile just thinking about it.

I loved those little cards u put in the controllers when I was a kid.

Baseball, burger time, stampede, and carnival. I can still hear the chiptune carnival music. We had the Tandyvision.

All these comments are bringing back memories. I had the wood paneled and the smaller light gray one with the B-17 Bomber Module. Fun times. I think Burgertime, Dragonfire, and pitfall were my favorites

Two of our neighbors had them and eventually, I think around 82 or 83, my dad bought one. It was great, we all swapped games with each other. I had one friend who had a Colecovision and several that had the 2600's. About 20 years ago I bought another one with a ton of games to relive my childhood. It's been ages since I had it hooked up, I might have to do that again soon.

Our family had an Intellivision in the early ‘80s, loved it. One problem we had though, it always had issues with the membrane under the disc failing all the time because we played Nightstalker so much!

@freeculture

Жыл бұрын

I had no issue with the Intellivision II made in Hong Kong, managed to reach the level with the invisible robot and you know how long that takes...

Coming into this physical life in 1971, the Intellivision was my first game console. Sure, I played the Atari unit a lot as well at various friend's houses, but preferred the Intv. My father and I loved to play "B-17 Bomber" with the voice adapter. "Microsurgeon" was another classic. I had nearly all of the games and still have most of the box covers for their artwork. It was a fun system.

My Dad bought me an Intellivision in the summer of 1981 at Service Merchandise. I loved going there to see all the games they had on display. A year or so later, game prices dropped like crazy, and I was very lucky to have a record store on my street liquidate their inventory. I ended up with about 30 games for $5 or less each! I've had nearly every system, but the Intellivision is still my favorite with the original Xbox a close second (because of modding).

I got one of these from my parents back around 1978-80. I still have it and the original store receipt, too. Man, those little number button covers wore out quickly in my house. As soon as I saw the D&D pic in this video, I immediately started remembering the snake hissing and my annoying everyone in my house by getting 99 arrows and telling the game to tell me how many I had (It would ping 99 times.) Astrosmash still rocks!! (pun intended)

When you put up the modern price equivalents, I gained a newfound appreciation for the money my dad spent that Christmas in '78.

Brings back lots of good childhood memories

Nice video! Big fan of the system myself

Still have one and it still works . They also made a model for Sears to sell .Sea battle is still a fun game to play today. Those classic hand held Mattel football basketball and soccer games were a blast. We used to play them on the school buses on the way to school lol. Blast from the past

Thanks for the fun video!

Someone make an all-in-one retro console that can play all Atari, intellivision, coleco, TI/994A, and Commodore carts.

@luisreyes1963

Жыл бұрын

As long as AtGames won't be the one making it. 😰

My Intellivision was a hand me down from my older bros and i loved that thing as a little kid... 1st Person Advanced Dungeons & Dragons was way ahead of its time IMO. Also really loved Golf & B17 Bomber with the voice expansion kit.

Another awesome retro console covered! Which video game system should we tell the story of next?

@Skorpio420

3 жыл бұрын

Odyssey2

@glennshoemake4200

3 жыл бұрын

Vectrex

I really enjoyed this video. Good job!

I went to school with a guy who lived on the next street over who had this game and lived in a newer, bigger house and I was so jelly of him lol. It was clearly better than the Atari, but was very expensive.

The Intellivision was my first console as a young lad. I loved that system to death. I loved how it had the cards that slipped into the controller so that you could tell what all the buttons would do. I loved that way back then, we had ANALOG controllers. I loved the way they felt in one of my favorite games, Ice Hockey. It just felt natural with how the players slid on the ice. I never had the Atari 2600. Later on I got the 7800(?) which was sort of a reboot of the 2600, it would play 2600 games too, and then soon after that I got my NES and that pretty much ruled the roost. I still have my NES today, it still works, and all of the games, including the ones with battery saves, still work!

B-17 Bomber - First game I ever heard talk. I was hooked.

Many fond memories of playing hours of B-17 Bomber and still gaming 30 years later.

I was born in 72. I think the console was a Santa gift for Christmas. I had 2 brothers and we would fight over who would play next, but also had fun watching each other play. My favorite games were Sea Battle, Night Stalker, and one kind of like Donkie Kong, I think it was called Beauty and the Beast not sure... We had the keyboard too, I thought it was kinda useless at the time, but boy I wish I could find it now! My brother may still have it, I'm checking in that now haha.

@freeculture

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Beauty and the Beast was one of Imagic gems. It was different to Donkey Kong. You gotta love reaching the top floor and then suicide to increase the game difficulty...

I had an Atari, but my cousins had an Intellivison. We had a blast when we were kids. Loved baseball and Frog Bog.

I had one. And it introduced me to video games way back. It was awesome and I'm still am an avid gamer to this day at 55.

We had my uncle's Tandyvision One. I loved that system :)

Great system. Sea battle and Night stalker were my favorites on that.

My aunt and uncle lived in Fresno. My cousins got one on that first release. A year later they upgraded as my oldest cousin was complaining about the controllers getting worn and I got the original as a hand me down. I loved playing the Las Vegas poker and Burger Time.

Got mine in 1981. Still have it. still works. Still have fun!

I remember the 1st video game system I got was the intellivision.. It was a blast playing back then.. Especially the "Pole Position" game...

You had to be there. Yes, everything today is light years ahead of anything we had back in the day, but you will never get that same rush as when you feel like you are on the crest of the wave of the future. My favourite was Sea Battle.

My cousin had one, loved the baseball game.

@danielrjones

3 жыл бұрын

I did not own one when I was young, but my friend did. I remember the baseball game as being a lot of fun.

My grandmother’s sister used to have one of these. I remember playing it when we would visit her in the summer when I was a kid. Good times. Had a blast playing that tank vs tank game.

I remember the Intellivision quite well. It definitely had it’s unique characteristics and in my opinion it blew away the Atari 2600.

I was born in 1990, and this was my first and only console until 2000. Very fun times were had playing with my dad and brother.

I LOVED it!!! and all the kids in the neighborhood wanted to come to my house to play because they all got Atari 2600's for Christmas ....I BEGGED my parents for a Atari and my Dad had me thinking thats what I was getting......Opening that present as a kid is probably my favorite Christmas memory .....mostly because I remember vividly the look on my Dads face, See I didnt even ask for the Intellivision because it was so much more expensive but my Dad over heard me and a neighborhood friend talking about how much better the intellivision was....so only the "rich" kids were going to get that, that was 40 some years ago but feels like yesterday to me. I had the best Dad ever....I miss him

Loved our Intellivision. Had the voice module that was helpful on some games.