Intellivision

[Bennett]

Okay, so I was "that guy" in my neighborhood. The one who had intellivision instead of atari. The one stuck between atari and collecovision. The guy who couldn't trade games with anybody.
But I still think the Intellivision or INTV was a great system for the time.
Granted, a lot of the early games were just rip-offs of classics like Space Invaders (for Intellivision I believe it was Space Armada), but there were some other great games, some of the first console role playing games.

Please join me in discussing the joys and downfalls of this system, including those goddamn disc controllers!

[Mockery]

This really belongs in the gaming forum, but yeah... I too had the Intellivision (by choice). I liked it way more than the Atari... the controls were cool and the games fucking ruled. I still have like over 50 of the games for it still too. Anybody who never played that system is really missing out.

WHITE WATER RAPIDS, BABY!

[Bennett]

I wasn't quite sure where to post.
gaming? retro?
retro-gaming?
I thought the people who frequent this thread would appreciate it more... but if it can be moved, so be it!

Tron Deadly Discs!!!

[Cybernetico]

I had it as well. My parents bought a collecovision when they were married, but only had like donkey kong and some cheesy space ship game. My fav. Intellevion game was snafu, me and my brother would play it for hours. So addicting, they gotta make a modern version of it. Popeye also owned, that one theme that used to play the WHOLE game, in it's own little 3-level-glory. I just wish my He-Man cartridge still worked, can't remember how it broke.

[Bennett]

I wish I could remember how the Snafu music went, it was top-notch.

When I was a young 'un, I had some serious Intellivision rage. I broke two of them, and I'm pretty sure that my Masters of the Universe cartridge was a victim as well. That was one of those games where the difficulty increases by more and more crap filling up the screen. Once you get to a certain level it's damn near impossible to get to Skeletor. When time started to run out it would start counting down, "beep, beep, beep." That was like a countdown to eruption, and the music they played when Skeletor won was the ignition. Man, that used to make me so mad, even though I had managed to get to level 10 or whatever.

[Sketch33]

A friend of mine had an Intellivision and I kept asking for one, but I had an Atari 2600 and was continuously reminded of how much my dad spent on that. Finally, when the Intellivision II came out (smaller, white, coiled cords that could be stuffed mostly back into the system when you weren't playing) I got one for either XMas or a birthday.

'Snafu' was fantastic (if you have a mac, track down Tron GL at macgamefiles, it's not the same, but still fun and free), but I really got into 'Discs of Tron', 'Swords & Serpents' and 'AD&D Treasure Of Tarmin' the most. That one I know I played so much I wore out the overlays. It was such a new style of game. Also enjoyable were 'Dragonfire', 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Microsurgeon'.

The disc on the Int2 controller was done better, but then they had to go and coil the cords so they were shorter than on the older system. The coil was so tight that on certain 2 player games when this were getting exciting someone would inevitably yank the system to the floor.

Still, excellent classic system, and one of the reasons I'm a game addict now.

[Bennett]

My Intellivision 1 and 2 were both destroyed in fits of rage. I still have Intellivision 3 (which was shortened to INTV) which went back to the original design, with some color modifications.

Treasure of Tarmin to this day is one of my favorite games. The Intellivision version of Burger Time is another one of my favorites. There were some later games like Tower of Doom and others that were pretty good... The Dig Dug was a nice approximation of the arcade... Mission X, Space Hawk.... anybody got any else?

[Mockery]

Space Hawk fucking ruled. Another great game was TRIPLE ACTION. Though it sounds like a bad porno, it's actually three games in one cartridge - tank battles, car racing, and best of all... bi-plane wars.

I loved flying high as possible in the bi-plane and then doing a huge nose-dive.

[Bennett]

Triple Action:
Tank Battle: pretty good, comparable to Atari
Car Racing: sucked
Biplanes: was awesome!!! other than crashing, I loved when you killed the other player, or they crashed, and you timed it just right so you could dive bomb them and blow them to bits before they even got off the ground... could be tricky with the balloon tower, though.

Night Stalker:
This game was awesome!!! The bats that would bite you and slow you down, the spider web. I used to play this game for hours.

[Zebra 3]

:) - A friend of mine had the original version and I had Intellivision II. I cannot count how many baseball games (and beers) we played...On my own I played Tron with the voice add-on, Burger Time among others, and my favourite one player game, Cops & Robbers.

[UnDeath]

my bastard of a friend just bought an intellivision... and an Odyessy 2, and a Coleco Vision, and he has ataris 2800 and 7600 (I think those are the numbers for them). Let alone, he also has an NES, SNES, Master System, Genesis, and about 10+ games for each. Bastard collecters...

[old_school_ninja]

I was that type of kid too !!! my favorite game was without a doubt dungeons and dragons... the slid-in cards were so messed up I couldnt even put them in anymore... I also had about 10 more games... what was the name of the game that looked alot like star wars?

[Bennett]

If you're talking about the one that looked like the Death Star trench, that was Star Strike.

[old_school_ninja]

If you're talking about the one that looked like the Death Star trench, that was Star Strike.

i think thats the one...

[Bennett]

I used to just let myself lose on that game, so I could watch the earth blow up.