Who owned an Intellivision console?

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  1. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    I loved the skiing game! Although we had a bunch of games, I can only specifically remember playing that and baseball...
     
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  2. Oatsdad

    Oatsdad Oat, Biscuits, Abbie & Mitzi: Best Dogs Ever

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    Awesome! I wish I still had our family's Intellivision. Can't imagine I'd want to play it, but it'd be fun to check out in person again...
     
  3. Wes H

    Wes H Forum Resident

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    I recall Colecovision being launched with "Donkey Kong"--which was a huge hit in the commercial arcades at the time.

    My first video game console was actually made by Coleco-- a rather crude 1976 device that played "Pong" and a couple of variations of that ("Hockey" and "Handball") which all used simple on-screen paddles (lines, really) to deflect a floating ball. Seemed fun at the time, but the games were built in and it lacked a slot for cartridges. When Atari came out a couple years later with the 2600, then Intellivision a year or so after, I wondered how I could ever have been entertained by "Pong"!
     
  4. MikeInFla

    MikeInFla Glad to be out of Florida

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    My older brother had one, but I think it might have been the Sears knock-off version. I remember loving it but hating the fact that it didn't have a joystick and instead had that circle to move around with. I had a 2600, loved to play them both. I think he only had sports games, I remember he had that Skiing game shown above.
     
  5. PlushFieldHarpy

    PlushFieldHarpy Forum Resident

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    My Dad had this:
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    which he never really played; it was just stuck away in a closet. I just remember some Pong sort of game on it.
    Apparently it was considered a failure, landing between the earlier Pong consoles and the later more advanced consoles like Intellivision.
    I got an Atari 2600 later on when they became big (but not before some of my friends did)
     
  6. Doug Sclar

    Doug Sclar Forum Legend

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    My favorite Intellivision games were football, baseball, tanks and car racing.

    I'm old enough that in my first studio job we had a Pong game that took quarters. It was in the lounge and somebody was always playing it. It was a console based game in a little table.
     
  7. vinnie

    vinnie Senior Member

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    New Jersey
    Still have mine - loved their baseball.
    Also the source of WPIX Channel 11's TV-Pixxx
     
  8. JFS3

    JFS3 Senior Member

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    Hooterville
    I had the smaller Intellivision II, while my friend had the original. We had just about every game, every add-on you could get, ad nauseum. Wasted way too many hours of our college life playing with the damn thing (and later, an Atari 5200) that would have been better spent studying or chasing after girls.

    Life lesson learned the hard way.

    :mad:

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  9. driverdrummer

    driverdrummer Forum Resident

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    Has anyone played Intellivision Lives on PlayStation 2?
     
  10. Rfreeman

    Rfreeman Senior Member

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    I had the one game no variation version of Pong. Next gaming device I got was an Android phone.
     
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  11. Locutus67

    Locutus67 Forum Resident

    I still have mine along with about 40 games, all complete & in decent shape considering the (ab)use they took. My Dad drove home the point of taking good care of stuff, so it survives & I am better for it.
    I have the voice module as well + the 'Space Spartans' game. I recorded it's voice snippet "Hello Commander, Computer reporting", added a couple other bits & it's been my Windows startup sound for nearly 15 years.
     
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  12. OcdMan

    OcdMan Senior Member

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    My wife and I still have one. Two actually. The original model and the Intellivision II plus the voice synthesizer module. We still play it all the time on my older CRT TV. Picked up a few big lots of games on eBay some years back. I think we have most of the commonly available games for it. Lots of fun.
     
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  13. paulisdead

    paulisdead fast and bulbous



    We're talking about retro gaming and I can't believe this hasn't been posted yet. :D
     
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  14. paulisdead

    paulisdead fast and bulbous



    May as well put part 2 here. :)
     
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  15. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    Rich kids. The rest of us had to make do with Atari. Ha! Jokes on them. The Atari was better!
     
  16. neo123

    neo123 Senior Member

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    My cousin had the Intellivsion and my brother and I had the Atari 2600.

    I remember some fun games for Intellivison (some games later got ported over to Atari 2600, but weren't as good.)

    I remember the Skiing game, Baseball, Basketball, Football, Brickout, Triple Action (Tank Battle, Biplanes, Racing Cars), Snafu, a Tron game, and a Maze game that was fun (can't remember the name.) I remember a few years later, Atari came out with their own Maze game and it wasn't nearly as fun.
     
  17. Ghostworld

    Ghostworld Senior Member

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    The sports games were awful!
     
  18. ralphk

    ralphk Ain’t gonna work on Maggie’s farm no more

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    It was the only game system I've ever owned although I played other people's Atari's and later other systems.

    I only had 3 of the 125 games released, Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, Pitfall, and TRON Deadly Disks. I couldn't afford a lot of games and didn't have a lot of time to play.

    I'd go home from work and play Dungeons and Dragons for a while to unwind. As mentioned, the controller was terrible, and Intellivision finger was a problem. There's a good Intellivision history here.
     
  19. Dave Garrett

    Dave Garrett Senior Member

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    Speaking of Pong, check this out - these guys engineered and built a *mechanical* version of Pong! It really has to be seen to be fully appreciated:

    Pong In Real Life, Mechanical Pong »
     
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  20. Holy Diver

    Holy Diver Senior Member

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    My friend had one. I had Atari. :)
     
  21. Ed Hughes

    Ed Hughes Senior Member

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    Loved my intellivision. Loved playing Dungeons&Dragons Space Armada and all the sports games. Later upgraded to Colecovision.
     
  22. Sideshow Dave

    Sideshow Dave Forum Resident

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    NJ, USA
    Loved my intellivision! Still have it in the basement. My favs were night stalker, tron deadly discs, pitfall, AD&D, and a lot of the imagic games; Dracula, microsurgeon, Atlantis....

    And of course the classics; baseball, astrosmash, space battle....

    Great fun!
     
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  23. Intellivision was ALWAYS my favorite system and I have owned most of them at one time or another. I still own two working Intellivisions, the Intellivoice, the ECS computer module and the music keyboard. I also own 110 of the 125 released cartridges. My absolute favorite game of them all is Tower Of Doom. It was intended to be the 3rd installment of the D&D games but it was released later after Mattel Electronics folded. My favorite 2 player game was Utopia. My best friend and I would play that all the time and I don't think I EVER lost even once. I was ruthless at that game. I'd barricade his fishing port with PT boats and sink his fishing boat the second he bought one and I'd plant rebels on his island constantly. I was kinda mean. LOL. I had some insane high scores. I think I got to 7 million on Tron Deadly Discs by using the portals to fake out the white stick guys. I could honestly talk about Intellivision games all day.
     
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  24. Canadacrowe

    Canadacrowe Forum Resident

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    Ottawa, Canada
    Loved it. We were a big sports, so really remember hockey, skiing, and baseball. Hockey had a great glitch where on one team the players would sometimes end up as legless torsos. Skiing and baseball had eventual controller issuers. The slowly responsive paddlewheel made it hard to turn your skier one way, so you had to really advance a left turn. Baseball, from overuse the keypad that was first base did not work. Best you could hope for was an out at second base.
     
  25. davidshirt

    davidshirt =^,,^=

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    Grand Terrace, CA
    I had one. My dad got one during the game crash of 83/84 because it was reduced to a ridiculously low price at Sears. I remember Night Stalker and B-17 Bomber. That's about all I remember. The controller overlays used for each game were kind of cool.
     
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