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BKITU		2012-03-09 02:36:41 PM

_{... I liked my Odyssey 2....}

lilbordr		2012-03-09 03:16:17 PM

Best video game ever made.
videogamecritic.net

/EVAR!!!!

Complicit		2012-03-09 04:21:08 PM

Beerguy		2012-03-09 05:23:24 PM

lilbordr: Best video game ever made.
[videogamecritic.net image 588x355]
/EVAR!!!!

Complicit: [i41.tinypic.com image 336x480]

I still have my Intellivison and both of those awesome games.....and, yes, it still works.

LarryDan43		2012-03-09 05:45:32 PM

lilbordr: Best video game ever made.

/EVAR!!!!

I liked that one, but loved Treasure of Tarmin.

undflickertail		2012-03-09 05:49:47 PM

LarryDan43: lilbordr: Best video game ever made.

/EVAR!!!!

I liked that one, but loved Treasure of Tarmin.

They are both good in their own ways.

Other favorites of mine were Astrosmash, Lock n Chase, and Night Stalker.

undflickertail		2012-03-09 05:53:05 PM

Beerguy: lilbordr: Best video game ever made.
[videogamecritic.net image 588x355]
/EVAR!!!!

Complicit: [i41.tinypic.com image 336x480]

I still have my Intellivison and both of those awesome games.....and, yes, it still works.

So does mine (II), except for the side buttons on the controllers which my sister broke from smashing on the floor too often, they are fickle on and off. The games are still there along with the Voice addon Intelletalk.

Kraftwerk Orange		2012-03-09 05:53:29 PM

Man, I loved that game.

www.capsulecomputers.com.au

LarryDan43		2012-03-09 05:54:57 PM

undflickertail: LarryDan43: lilbordr: Best video game ever made.

/EVAR!!!!

I liked that one, but loved Treasure of Tarmin.

They are both good in their own ways.

Other favorites of mine were Astrosmash, Lock n Chase, and Night Stalker.

Ill add Space Hawk.

bmr68		2012-03-09 06:09:59 PM

Only kid in my neighborhood with intellivision. Atari 2600 was king.

River Raid was a favorite

CheapEngineer		2012-03-09 06:21:08 PM

\I actually remember magnavox having to recall all of these for copyright infringement
\\we sold *lots* more Atari 400's and 800's anyway
\\\yes, that frickin' old

Skyfrog		2012-03-09 06:25:37 PM

was > Intellivision

/although Astrosmash was awesome.

scalpod		2012-03-09 06:42:17 PM

Oh yeah? Well when you were playing your fancy Intellivisions and Colecovisions I was writing (copying line-for-line from Byte magazine) the code for my own "Hunt the Wumpus" game on my Trash-80 and saving it to magnetic cassette tape, to load and run it only to have it crash, to then load the code from tape to correct my typos, to save to tape, to load and crash, to load and edit, to save to tape...

shivashakti		2012-03-09 06:43:51 PM

Sweet! I had an Intellivision and loved it.

BumpInTheNight		2012-03-09 06:59:51 PM

The awesome memories. Trying to remember the name of a particular game: You were a helicopter that starts off on a carrier and your mission was to fly around a large open map and bomb stuff, I think you could go back to the carrier to heal up as well. There was some sort of battleship being built by the enemy too that if it finished it'd start hunting down your carrier and that thing had some really annoying homing missiles on board too.

Tyrone Slothrop		2012-03-09 07:01:03 PM

Some of the first programming I did was on the O²:
www.brooklynboysgames.com

/hot like one line of text output

buckler		2012-03-09 07:02:35 PM

Neat. My last museum gig was educating for a retrospective of video games, with about 180 playable systems, including an Intellivision running Utopia. Oddly enough, it wasn't very popular.

Inhale/exhale		2012-03-09 07:09:49 PM

The Code! The Code! Figure out the Code!
3
Are You Sure?
9
Oh No!

/Scream at TV, throw controller, go get a can of soda from the fridge.

What_Would_Jimi_Do		2012-03-09 07:17:50 PM

CheapEngineer: [media.giantbomb.com image 300x391]

\I actually remember magnavox having to recall all of these for copyright infringement
\\we sold *lots* more Atari 400's and 800's anyway
\\\yes, that frickin' old

recall? i still have mine and the kc munchkin with the voice box. i also got an atari 1200xl about 1 year later.

BumpInTheNight		2012-03-09 07:23:42 PM

BumpInTheNight: The awesome memories. Trying to remember the name of a particular game: You were a helicopter that starts off on a carrier and your mission was to fly around a large open map and bomb stuff, I think you could go back to the carrier to heal up as well. There was some sort of battleship being built by the enemy too that if it finished it'd start hunting down your carrier and that thing had some really annoying homing missiles on board too.

Oh wait, found it. Wrong platform too it was a C64 game called Raid on Bungeling Bay (new window) and it was Will Wright's first claim to fame, neat.

buckler		2012-03-09 07:28:02 PM

I want to be the guy to find where all the E.T. games were buried in the desert.

calbert		2012-03-09 07:30:04 PM

My parents couldn't afford the name brand Intellivision, but we did have the Radio Shack knock-off Tandyvision.

some memorable games: Pitfall, Q-bert (which I found to be easier with the controller paddle than with an Atari joystick),

Star Strike:

videogamecritic.net

Sea Battle (I thought it was neat how you could 'zoom in'):

videogamecritic.net

I thought it was a cool system with interchangeable inserts for the number pads, I was more impressed with that than with the 2600s in the neighborhood.

I remember my sister writing down her high-scores for Star Strike and hiding it so that we couldn't destroy it, removing any proof of her score (gotta love the pre-memory card days)

My parents sent away for the Intellivoice add-on, but by the time we received it, my dad passed away and we had no games that were compatible with it, and besides, there wasn't much fun in the house after that happened anyways.

My friend had the Intellivision 2 and I thought it was neat how slick and small it looked, compared to the first one.

also, Intellivision controllers were easy to take apart and clean after your sister spills lemonade on them.

PluckYew		2012-03-09 07:35:17 PM

scalpod: [upload.wikimedia.org image 485x600]

Oh yeah? Well when you were playing your fancy Intellivisions and Colecovisions I was writing (copying line-for-line from Byte magazine) the code for my own "Hunt the Wumpus" game on my Trash-80 and saving it to magnetic cassette tape, to load and run it only to have it crash, to then load the code from tape to correct my typos, to save to tape, to load and crash, to load and edit, to save to tape...

Your shiat was fancy, I did that with a VIC-20. I did have the tape drive though, thank god!

Gordon Bennett		2012-03-09 07:44:13 PM

BumpInTheNight: BumpInTheNight: The awesome memories. Trying to remember the name of a particular game: You were a helicopter that starts off on a carrier and your mission was to fly around a large open map and bomb stuff, I think you could go back to the carrier to heal up as well. There was some sort of battleship being built by the enemy too that if it finished it'd start hunting down your carrier and that thing had some really annoying homing missiles on board too.

Oh wait, found it. Wrong platform too it was a C64 game called Raid on Bungeling Bay (new window) and it was Will Wright's first claim to fame, neat.

Not only was it his first, but the enjoyment he had from designing the streets and buildings on the map was what inspired him to create Sim City.

Cubicle Jockey		2012-03-09 07:50:05 PM

Was Utopia the first realtime "Simcity" game?

I remember working my fishing fleets and praying that they would juuuuust be missed by the whirlydoom hurricanes that would periodically pass through.

ACCORDianate		2012-03-09 07:51:49 PM

I loved me some Sea Battle. And B-17 Bomber [bandit... nive o'clock]. And Thunder Castle. And Burgertime. And Advanced D&D [ever try to play on the highest level? You's deads].

I hated me some Solar Sailer [Energy: Low. Get off! Get off! END OF LINE]. And Bomb Squad [shaking from police sirens, throwing random parts on the 'bomb']. And Night Stalker [when the robot gets up in the spider web and fires 10000 rounds per second].

Ahhh, Intellivision. Neighbor kids used to come over to play since their 2600 just wasn't fun enough.

fusillade762		2012-03-09 09:33:39 PM

Kraftwerk Orange: [gamesdbase.com image 640x386]

Man, I loved that game.

[www.capsulecomputers.com.au image 256x384]

"Watch out for flak!"

aurorous		2012-03-09 09:39:48 PM

Roger Ebert read "The Art of Video Games" exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C" and his jaw dropped.

BumpInTheNight: BumpInTheNight: The awesome memories. Trying to remember the name of a particular game: You were a helicopter that starts off on a carrier and your mission was to fly around a large open map and bomb stuff, I think you could go back to the carrier to heal up as well. There was some sort of battleship being built by the enemy too that if it finished it'd start hunting down your carrier and that thing had some really annoying homing missiles on board too.

Oh wait, found it. Wrong platform too it was a C64 game called Raid on Bungeling Bay (new window) and it was Will Wright's first claim to fame, neat.

That game was also on the NES.

rpm		2012-03-09 10:13:05 PM

buckler: I want to be the guy to find where all the E.T. games were buried in the desert.

They were crushed and encased in concrete. Plus in a city dump, so it's not exactly going to be hard to find.

kregh99		2012-03-09 10:15:23 PM

The three computers I used for the very first computer programming I ever did are right next to eachother in the Smithsonian:
1. Radio Shack TRS-80
2. Commodore 64
3. Apple IIe

rpm		2012-03-09 10:16:47 PM

buckler: I want to be the guy to find where all the E.T. games were buried in the desert.

Here you go

buckler		2012-03-09 10:26:10 PM

rpm: buckler: I want to be the guy to find where all the E.T. games were buried in the desert.

Here you go

Interesting.

Your Name Here		2012-03-09 10:31:22 PM

lilbordr: Best video game ever made.

/EVAR!!!!

THIS!

scalpod		2012-03-09 11:01:55 PM

PluckYew: scalpod: [upload.wikimedia.org image 485x600]

Oh yeah? Well when you were playing your fancy Intellivisions and Colecovisions I was writing (copying line-for-line from Byte magazine) the code for my own "Hunt the Wumpus" game on my Trash-80 and saving it to magnetic cassette tape, to load and run it only to have it crash, to then load the code from tape to correct my typos, to save to tape, to load and crash, to load and edit, to save to tape...

Your shiat was fancy, I did that with a VIC-20. I did have the tape drive though, thank god!

Oh, had a VIC-20 and a C-64 and a C-128.

Reaperman		2012-03-09 11:46:16 PM

Threw a perfect game on Intellivision baseball. Then again, you could throw someone out at first from left field.

Optimal_Illusion		2012-03-10 12:56:57 AM

Check this page out (new window).

I DL'd all three Intellipacks. Even the small selection is tons o' fun to play.

Shadow Blasko		2012-03-10 02:05:47 AM

/Still a member... I suppose..

Intellivision Numb thumb club!

Smidge204		2012-03-10 05:54:45 AM

CheapEngineer: \I actually remember magnavox having to recall all of these for copyright infringement

That's funny, 'cause I used to play that quite a lot as a kid... I should still have the box and cart somewhere, actually...

=Smidge=
/That, and Monkeyshines
//Doop be doop be doop, Doop be doop be doop! Boop dobedoop dobedoop boop BLOOP!

machodonkeywrestler		2012-03-10 09:25:35 AM

First this

Then this

Then this

machodonkeywrestler		2012-03-10 09:27:50 AM

machodonkeywrestler: First this

Then this

Then this

That was a lot of Fail.

Once again.

First this
oldcomputers.net

Then this

BumpInTheNight		2012-03-10 11:56:45 AM

Gordon Bennett: BumpInTheNight: BumpInTheNight: The awesome memories. Trying to remember the name of a particular game: You were a helicopter that starts off on a carrier and your mission was to fly around a large open map and bomb stuff, I think you could go back to the carrier to heal up as well. There was some sort of battleship being built by the enemy too that if it finished it'd start hunting down your carrier and that thing had some really annoying homing missiles on board too.

Oh wait, found it. Wrong platform too it was a C64 game called Raid on Bungeling Bay (new window) and it was Will Wright's first claim to fame, neat.

Not only was it his first, but the enjoyment he had from designing the streets and buildings on the map was what inspired him to create Sim City.

That article was a pretty sweet read, I remember spending hours just roaming around trying out different tactics or ignoring the main goal (kill the factories themselves) in favour of blasting their supply chains. It would be a great candidate to get a modernized sequel out of for sure.

weiner dog		2012-03-10 02:24:51 PM

calbert:

Star Strike

That game scared me. I'd watch my brother play, and I'd dart out of the living room and peer at the t.v. from around the corner every time the spaceship flew into the earth and blew up.

The Intellivision was a birthday gift to my brother when he turned 4 (I was 2). We had it for about 3 years. I played SNAFU more than anything else. I liked Burger Time, but I was terrible at it. Carnival freaked me out, and I couldn't get anywhere in Pitfall. I remember making it to level 4 of Night Stalker, and that my Dad was really good at Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Apparently, I also liked hiding behind the t.v. and chewing on the cables, thus bringing a premature ending to the Intellivision era in our household. Oops.

weiner dog		2012-03-10 02:26:51 PM

Gah! Too little, too late, but as an empty and useless gesture:

weiner dog		2012-03-10 02:29:22 PM

I am full of fail this morning. I put a closed italics tag in the last publication I made (will that get filterpwned?) Going to back away from the keyboard now.

Spindle		2012-03-10 06:32:03 PM

Loved my Intellivision. The Dreadnaught Factor was probably the first twitch video game I ever came across as a kid and it still holds a special place in my heart.

British		2012-03-10 09:59:44 PM

Mattell trifecta in play?

Bought a Inty 1 for cheap at an estate sale. Some games work. some don't. Works better after I turned the controller connector around.

calbert		2012-03-11 12:13:50 PM

weiner dog: I am full of fail this morning. I put a closed italics tag in the last publication I made (will that get filterpwned?) Going to back away from the keyboard now.

stop chewing on your computer cords.

;)

halfmoth		2012-03-12 11:03:58 AM

mmmm. Odyssey2, ColecoVision (both of which I still have, and the O2 might still work -- will turn them into a table in the lounge), Apple//e, Amiga500, Amiga4000 w/ Video Toaster (still have the A4000, too)... Fun to see you guys bringing all this back!

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