When I was a kid I went to my cousin's house and he had a brand new NES. I was born in 1986 so this would have been like in the early 90s. I wanted an NES so badly. So I begged my parents for one. My dad goes up to the attic and brings down an Intellivision and almost every game that ever came out for it. In the late 70s and early 80s he was a young doctor who had just started making money and he bought everything for the system. I originally thought he bought it for my much older (20+ years older) siblings but as an adult I asked him and found out that he actually bought it for himself. In that era of gaming everyone believed they'd only ever need one console so I never did get my own NES. I actually only had the Intellivision and didn't really know there was anything better until I finally got a N64 around 2001. Major upgrade. lol So despite being a 90s kid, my early years of gaming were exclusively on the Intellivision. Thanks for this video, brought back lots of memories.
That's an interesting story thank you, and although I was born in 1967, mine has some similarities... In the 1980's we had an Intellivision and I played it like crazy until the crash, and I didn't really think much of consoles again after that, though I did play the occasional game on PC (because I became an electrical engineer and was working in computing). Then one day in the late 1990's my fiance - who was a doctor then (she has since earned a PhD in genetics and runs a lab now) - suggested we rent a Nintendo 64 to play in the hospital, because she was the Registrar on Christmas Day. That was cool because she got quadruple pay, her family were Orthodox and celebrated Christmas in January anyway, and there's hardly anyone in a small private hospital on Christmas Day, so we could sit in the Registrar's Room playing video games, and she would have to pop out for a quick round every hour or so. Well ... we rented it, and Super Mario 64, and exactly as you said, it was a major upgrade. The thing completely blew my mind in fact, and I have owned every Nintendo console since then (plus various others), and still play video games to this day. So my early years of gaming were also on the Intellivision, and this video brought back lots of great memories for me too thank you... ;-)
"didn't really know there was anything better until..." There wasn't really anything better. NES survived longer with more games, and Duck Hunt🦆, but not really better. Being of that older generation, I was in middle school when the market crashed, and naturally assumed video games were just for children, and teenagers did cool things, with grown-up stuff like cars and even go to arcades. Not staying indoors with kid game! It was only with 8-bit computers that hanging out with your teenage friends playing games was cool. Modems were for rich kids, so no "hacking". Those who could did so mostly to not pay the outrageous telephone charges! So it wasn't like you were really far behind in any way. Nintendo came out when I was working at Toys r' us, and I just wasn't going to spend my money on a console and cartridges that I couldn't type a school paper on. It was my little sister who begged my parents for one. Sorry I turned this into a long essay!
That's wonderful to read your shared gaming experience. When I was a kid I begged my parents for a Nintendo 64. I never received one though, because my parents had the standing statement of "We have favorite shows to watch. We will not be able to watch our shows if you're gaming." Instead, I spent my childhood gaming on a Gateway Desktop Computer that ran Windows 95. I played Tomb Raider, Star Wars X-Wing, and many other favorites. The Desktop Computer continued to be upgraded as time went by: Windows 98, Windows 2000. Finally in 2001, I received my first gaming console, PlayStation 2.
Same for me from France. I don’t how many hours I spent on it day and night with my relatives, especially my mum. We were addicted to it. Really great memories ❗️👍
I used to call Mattel electronics and talk to the blue sky rangers and they would tell me the titles of new games coming out. i even wrote them a letter saying that i had ideas for new games. they sent me a coupon and a really nice letter saying that they didn't accept unsolicited ideas. I still see Intellivision in the games of today.
@@zebatov do they really, or just pretend to? I think they just work harder at making you think you're participating. And steal as much demographic data as possible while doing it.
I got my Atari 2600 in 1979...still have it. I was never interested in intellivision and thought plimton was snobby. Went to an Atari 800 then the Mega 2st great computer. I have them all still and all work. So I just bought an intellivision off eBay now. Looking forward to going back in time. I am an Atarian at heart but I want to go back to a time when video games were simple and fun. well done presentation.
Former Atari 800XL (later enhanced with CompyShop's +256kB RAM and Q-Meg OS) and Mega ST2 user here 🙂 Indeed, those computers had the magic about them, that all the more recent ones started to lack more and more, until it vanished in the sea of more or less homogenous PCs. Back then, playing games was a fun for the whole family and neighbours and friends.. I still recall two particular childhood guys - we've been huddling around our 8-bit computers (my 800XL, one friend's C64 and another one's ZX Spectrum) and "tortured" the joysticks while trying to beat a level or a game or some best time or best score - or just kick each other's ass in Joust or International Karate or One on One or Ballblazer.. I specifically recall the cool, StartTrek-ish feeling of the moment, when - while playing Star Raiders - one of us operated the joystick and another took care of the keyboard.. Yeah, I'd love to go back and relive the era once again. The Mega ST2 wasn't really that much of a gaming machine (we still continued to play games mostly on our 8-bit machines), but it was a real beast, when it came to productivity. IMHO it beat all PCs of the era by a wide margin. Truly, it was an excellent machine and luckily, also quite popular here, in East Europe.
The Intellivision was the best system of the pre-8-bit era, not only on a technical level, but for its unique and varied library. In my opinion, course
carljr17 colecovision had just as good or better graphics and sound. Granted it was a newer console. I was always jealous of a couple of my friends who both had the Intellivision and coleco - i had to settle for my atari. Its funny, I remember always had to defend the ataris graphics and games from those heathens lol.
Couple random points... Although clearly more advanced, the Intellivision and Colecovision would have a hard time matching some 2600 games, like Solaris and even River Raid. Both have limited color palettes and more restrictive Sprite systems by comparison. Although the Intellivision CPU is technically a 16-bit processor, I don't think the system as a whole can be called 16-bit, at a glance the CPU memory bus requirements seem like they could be more wasteful than any net advantage, or basically the CPU appears overqualified for the product.
Treasure Of Tarmin is sensational and me and a mate still play it occasionally and Horse Racing is a fantastic party game. We play it for actual money - each person gets to play ten races as the Bookie
I love this system...when I was in kid, back in that amazing summer of '82, a rich kid we knew had an Intellivision ,& I was finally invited over to play...it amazed me and it's still one of my favorite systems, today👍
I played on my friend's original Intellivision. I got an Intellivision II for Christmas in 1983. This was after the models had been steeply discounted. Some of our favorite games were baseball, football, Utopia, horse racing, Tron deadly discs, Sea Battle, and those ever addictive biplanes in Triple Action. In 1984, as part of the video game bust, Mattel had an offer where you could buy two games and get two free games off a long list of games. I bought a number of discounted games from stores eliminating their inventory. Then I mailed off for my free games. The free games were often the better games. Mattel got flooded with responses. I chose to wait. I eventually received all these great games two at a time in our rural mailbox. Fun times!
We used to make bets, my brothers and I! Who would win at Sea Battle, many good times, the tri planes where fun also, in their simplicity, I find some of these games more enjoyable than today’s high technology packed ones.
I remember the hockey game, you could get into fights and be sent to the penalty box. The basketball game was also fantastic, boxing was incredible, as was the football game. The best game they had though was baseball. We had out entire neighborhood over, playing that game. It was like we had our own season with out own team's. Some of the best memories of my childhood.
Me too! I remember the place where they'd sell the games, the smell of coffee, kids playing snd arguing whose turn was it to play ad&d. They only had one ad&d for several months and everybody was waiting for their own cartridge to arrive in the country. As a 12-yo kid I would just take a bus and travel 20 km each day to the store just to see the game and maybe get a chance to actually play. I loved the feeling of anticipation and I marvelled about the amazing feeling to play video games. To move objects on the tv screen and not just watch tv shows. After a few years, I sold my console and about 20 games and both a vcr. That was too a revolutionary concept. Watching all kinds of movies at home. I got back into gaming and got myself the colecovision, and after that c64, then Amica. These games contributed so much in my life. I still sometimes think about the ad&d and feel the mystery of it all. I consider myself lucky to have lived this era and experienced first hand the beginning and evolution of the whole videogame industry.
I used to panic when I came across a monster. I've got this on an emulator, can't play it cause of the control method. I actually have this console, the A D & D cartridge and a few others Tron included. Sadly the console display is not too good, needs attention.
Excellent video! I bought my console in 1982 and had the Intellivoice by Christmas that year. I immediately bought the adaptive joysticks at Sears as I couldn't tolerate those discs. Burgertime was indeed the most addictive game, and I still get a thrill out of bowling a 200 (or 76 in Pick-up Spares) for the reward of that 1812 Overture!
Space Battle actually was supposed to be Battlestar Galactica. Matell made a handheld BG game but lost the rights shortly before the Intellivision went to market. Supposedly, there were some carts produced with the BG logo label instead of Space Battle.
As a 40-year-old who has been gaming literally since Pong, I will unironically say that (IMHO, of course) B-17 Bomber is THE "Greatest Video Game of All Time." Not only is the gameplay completely on point, but given the technical limitations of the system it's an out and out marvel that it works so freakin' well!
CantankerousDave Dungeons and Dragons treasure of Tarmin was hands down the best game for the system. Probably the 1st first person shooter game ever made.
All of my friends got Ataris for Christmas in early 80s...I didnt! To make up for it, my mom placed an order for me to get the Intellivision 1 through the Service Merchandise Catalog. It continued to stay on backorder and I never got it. The result was that I never got the video game "bug" like my other friends. Oh...the scars of youth!! 😉 Really enjoyed your unboxing of the Burger Time. Thanks!!
The Sears Super Video Arcade (the Sears version of the original Intellivision) also had detachable controllers at Sears' insistence. They're also the same styling as the Intellivision I controllers (including the bubbled feel for the keypad) but are molded in cream-colored plastic. The best thing is that those controllers have the same bubble feel for the keypad and also work fine in the Inty II.
I asked my parents for the Intellivision game system for Christmas 1980. I didn't expect to get it, but it was the Sears version and I was a bit upset, but once I played it for the first time...Wow! All of my cousins, friends etc had the Atari 2600, and they hated the INTV. Lol! Great memories Thx for the upload
This was a trip down memory lane. I have a lot of my old video game consoles but never knew what happened to my Intellivision. have go looking for one now. thanks.
I remember buying the keyboard at a game store in Santa Maria, CA, back in 1985. It had a cassette port to the left of the keyboard and came with a cassette you could use to load BASIC into the computer, then write your program and save it to a blank cassette.
Got my Intellivison at Christmas 1980, and I used it all the way through college at the end of the 80's. My college friends found the NBA Basketball incredibly addicting. We played that constantly.
@@Mike-t5r9q I got in in Christmas 1980, and was in college in 87, so... Like I said, despite the graphics not being as good as the more recent stuff in the late 80s, certain games very very addictive.
@peteg475 do you still play intellivision nowadays ? I was born in 1991 so way after intellivision first came out but it's actually my first console I ever played & owned because it was a hand me down from my uncle who bought it in 1980 when he was a kid. I played alot of tron, that beauty and the beast game, ashrosmash and boxing such a fan console at the time I played it alot in the 90s up till I got an n64 in 1996 when that console first came out lol I'm trying to find an emulator for intellivision but for some reason that console is the hardest one to find there's not many emulators for that console
@peteg475 that's pretty much the same with me but it still be cool to have an emulator of intellivision on my phone just for old time sakes for fun lol. Atari is probably going to do nothing with intellivision unfortunately. Intellivision is just not really popular like the original Nintendo. Alot of people don't even know what intellivision is lol I'm just one of the rare ones
I had an Atari 2600 as my first cartridge-based game system, and I would play the Intellivision at other people's houses. After getting my first job in 1986 (my first paycheck was spent on an Atari 2600jr. console, a couple paychecks later I bought an NES) I worked with a guy who had an Intellivision II with bad controllers that he sold to me for $5. He also gave me a catalog from INTV that his family had gotten in the mail. I bought new controllers from INTV, and started grabbing games cheap. The discount racks at Toys R' Us was a great place to shop, along with getting new titles. I'm glad that I got into the Intellivision at that point in time, it was just when my collecting instinct was kicking in. I bought nearly all of the late releases all the way until the end of INTV Corporation. It's remained one of my favorite machines I've ever owned.
A couple of weeks before Christmas (back in the 70s), my family was shopping at Montgomery Wards, when we came upon the Intellivision display. Somehow, through some miracle, my brother and I talked my dad into buying it for us. He did, and we played endless games of basketball, and baseball, which I think were the best games they put out.
I was clearing out my storage unit a few months ago came across the Intellivoice module with a couple of the games that went with my Intellivision console, even though I don't have the console anymore.
Love this! I have most of those games. I can still hear... "the code the code, figure out the code!" from Bomb Squad. My favs were Star Strike, Night Stalker, Frog Bog, then later Burger Time and Bump & Jump.
Mattel did come out with a joy stick for the Intellevision's control disk. The joy stick had a suction cup at it's bottom which allowed it to grab onto the top of the control disk
The yellowing from the bromine is when the plastic compound got a disproportionate amount of bromine. It can happen in the exact same batch so it doesn’t necessarily mean your controller was replaced. The same thing happened to most Super Nintendos. Lol Frog Bog was featured in the movie “Grandma’s Boy”.
I first got into the Intellivision by playing the Intellivision Lives compilation on the PS2. I got a real one shortly after that and I've been a fan ever since. I can't wait to get my hands on the Amico. It's gonna be awesome.
I grew up in Maryland and there were a number of kids shows on a Washington station called WDCA channel 20. They had a host, Captain 20, that would host kids show, make public service announcements, ect. One thing he did was a contest where you could call in while showing the early football game of intellivision and tell whoever was at the controls to "pass". I think the pass was always going to a receiver in the in-zone and so if the ball was caught, you got a touchdown and won a prize. You can do a search for Captain 20 so you can see who he is but no videos I know of exist online showing this contest.
we got joy sticks that would slide on to the disc controller brings back memories the problem is it used to overheat after a while ,unles just our intervision
I had an Intellivision II and the IntelliVoice module. I remember one game, must have been a space game, would report on system damage. One thing it seemed to say is "Fashion Computer two thirds down".
My one cousin had the intellivision, another cousin had Vectrex, my 2 friends had Atari 2600 and coleco respectively. I love the art on the intellivision, when you held up the gambling game I had major flashbacks. Then I got a Vic 20, then commodore 64, hard to believe it was 40 years ago. Love this thank you.
Mattel ended offering the Aquarius, as a basic personal computer. It had BASIC, and some few games. You recorded your programs in a separate cassette player. Those were good times! Congrats for the video!
I have an original test marketed Intellivision along with the original box. However, I'm the 2nd owner of the system. I bought it on eBay from a man who bought the Intellivision new in 1979 during test marketing. It works as it should without any problems. It took me a while to figure out how to use the keypad to play the games, but thank God for the overlays to help out.
@Metal JesusRocks, When it comes to setting up your Intellivision II to the T.V. you have, I noticed you use a Philmore Antenna/Cable/VCR Switch AB78 Rather than using that, would a Video Cable RCA/Composite A/V to RF/Coax /Coaxial Converter Hdmi Modulator TV, be a successful alternative in getting the Intellivision II to function on a LCD T.V.?
Taking a History of Technology class in college and I am doing a presentation on the Intellivision. So much good information here thank you for this video!
Intellivision was my first console. vary rare here in mexico. I remember playing burger time with my dad all Saturdays- it was a real party time. very good memories. thank you!!
I have two intellivisions that I inherited when my dad passed last year. The one system is the one my sister and I received for Christmas either late 70’s or early 80’s. It still has the joystick attachments I got because I didn’t love the disc.
Nicely done video. Having flashbacks to my youth here - was born in early 70s so Atari, Intellivision, and Colecovision came along at just the right time for me. Never owned the Int. but a friend did and plenty of good memories from time we spent playing the excellent sports games, Sea Battle, etc.
I just found this video. I loved my Intellivision. Got one new in 1981, and had it through the 80’s. Had a lot of games. I purchased an Intellivision Flashback to put in my game room. It has a lot of great games but one I miss that I loved playing was Truckin’ by Imagic. Thanks for the video!
When I was a kid. My dad had one of these. I loved playing it. I knew to hook it up and set up the games from a young age (4-6 yrs old). They're were only a few game that I were good at like Night Stalker, Astrosmash, Tron: Deadly disk, Burgertime, Lock n Chase, Armor Battle. and some I could not figure out. Like Space Hawk, Space Battle, D&D. Well, one day. My dad had the case open to clean the inside, it was an Intellivision 2. And me as a young boy asked him what a microchip was. So he pulles out one of the sockes chips to show me. But when he tried to put it back, he snapped off one of the pins. And that was that. Within a week it, and all the games were in the trash.
Your format is interesting, simply point a camera and Suresh about your real childhood. I appreciate it. I'm a collector and have many of my original consoles. While I do like the fee games I have completed and in good condition, my collection gets used regularly so I'm not concerned about struggling to keep things mint. As long as the games and consoles work, I'm a happy boy.
I started gaming before the atari even came out.i had combat and pong on individual consoles.i thought at some point I'd cut back on gaming,but i still game almost everyday.i really love all the new systems that are out,but seeing videos like this really bring back memories.🕹🎮
I am loving this video, the Intellivision was my first video game console! I still have it and about 70 or so games. I will be honest, though - when you ripped that BurgerTime open, I felt a little sad (the collector in me did at least...)
I used to go over to my uncle Todd's and play Intellivision for hours on weekends. I played Space Spartans so intensely that I still have a permanent scar on my left thumb from holding down the fire button even though it's decades later and I'm almost 49 years old now! I have the new retro system that came out some years ago, but I've contemplated getting a real authentic classic one again so I can enjoy the games as they were back in those early 80's.
Thanks for sharing. My siblings and I also grew up playing the Intellivision, and actually my parents would play it with us... so we kinda looked like the family shown on the top of the box, lol. We had the 1st console, along with an Intellivision II, Intellivoice, and also the Intellivision System Changer. I still have everything and it all works, except I need a new AC adapter for the Intellivision 2. My favorite games are Tron Deadly Discs, Space Spartans, and Treasure of Tarmin.
Never had an Intellivision but the hand held Mattel electronic games (i.e. football) were awesome at that time. I had an Atari 2600 and 5200 also ColecoVision (with the adapter) and Coleco Gemini. Those systems were awesome. The video game crash was crazy because they became over saturated with Games and Consoles and people were getting into computers although everybody couldn't afford one. I hate when people use the terms "everybody did it" because it's not true...just say that "people were doing it". Glad to see so many getting into retro gaming...I better get mine before the prices go up
Skiing, baseball and biplanes were the huge hits for me and my family and friends. Played many a baseball tournament at parties. The weak point of the Intellivision (at the least version 1 which we all had in my circle) was the controllers. The number pads would wear out as I recall. I seem to recall a fix for that but don't recall the details. The overlays would wear out after much use too. This was the second gaming system that I had in my life, the first being the original pong.
I was 9 years old in 1982 and played the crap out of my intellivision. I had most of the games you showed here and was partial to Astrosmash, Night Stalker and Bump 'N' Jump I got swollen thumbs from those damn side buttons playing Armor Battle so much. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
My aunt and uncle had the Sears version and when we would sleep over their house, we used to play it endlessly. Finally, Christmas 1982 my parents bought us one (original Intellivision I). We had a good amount of games for it and even had the later produced computer add-on. The Poker and Blackjack game was always fun. We also loved Frog Bog, Electric Company games, Baseball, Lock N Chase, Burgertime, Pitfall, Atlantis and Star Strike.
Great video man, I also watched your repair video. I grew up with the colecovision and the 2600 but never had an intellivision. I recently picked up a stack of intellivision games at a local pawn shop and can't wait to get an intellivision!
I had the first version of this console. Bought it at Radio Shack back in 1983. My nephews and nieces played it so much, that the first unit burned out about a year later, so I bought a second unit. Burger Time was our favorite game of the 30 or so that we had.
I remember when my dad got the gold n brown Intelivision console for the family so it Keep my brother, sister and I busy. My favorite games were Sub Hunt, SNAFU, Burger Time, Auto Racing and Soccer and still to this day I play video games. Great walk down memory lane listening to the sound effects and seeing some of these games I forgot even existed.
I loved the plastic inserts that came with each game. I loved playing baseball with my dad and pressing hard on those diamond inserts hoping to get the runner out. Those inserts wore out as well as the buttons on the controllers. The large circle buttons on the controller controlled the throw, which help curve the pitch. Also, I remember posing next to the video screen which showed my high score for Pitfall. My mom sent the picture to whoever and they sent back a Pitfall patch. Lost the patch, but would love to have that picture back. We had Intellivision 1 & 3, which both looked alike. Neighbor had 2 which looked differently (Smaller & White, I believe). Watching this video I now recall the card game and the noise it made with those "clicks". Love these memories
I'd like to thank you very much for doing this wonderful stroll down memory lane. The Mattel INTELLIVISION was the 2nd console I came in contact with after playing on the ATARI 2600. A friend and I spent countless hours playing AUTO RACING (which totally blew my mind since at that time I only knew NIGHT DRIVER on the 2600), FROG BOG (loved the graphics), Imagic's ATLANTIS, DEMON ATTACK and DRACULA (all of which were really "premium" experiences for me at that time). To this day the INTELLIVISION holds a special place in my heart and I am thinking about picking up a console on ebay and other such places.
I had both the Intellivision and the Intellivision II. One thing that I discovered that no one that I've ever talked to seemed to know: with the Intellivision II, you can find joystick extension cables for the Atari, and you cam use those extension cables with the Intellivision II, so you can have a really long cable for the controllers and you could sit really comfortably on the sofa. The cables that came with the hand controllers were way too short.
The Intelevision was our families first console. We had the keyboard and the intelevoice addon. We had Space Spartains which used the voice. It was the bomb back in the day. Armoured Tank was me and my brothers favourite game. Chasing each other around and shooting.
Very Nostalgic. Had both of them, and the TI-99/4a Home Computer in the early 80's. Black Jack and poker, along with Utopia were games way ahead of their time.
I spent hours on Tron deadly discs and Astro smash. I still have my original and television had all the games in my bedroom as well as the original box which is a little smashed. Some days when my kids move out and I get my own game room, I will be setting up all of my consuls and my in television. Just thinking about all those hours sitting at home lost in my television games. Some of the best times of my life. 1979 and 1980 was a great time to be young. I remember at some time also sending away for a new replacement side button set that was harder than the original.
At 8:54, the controller is popped out of the Intellivision II. We have found that the best combination of compatibility and control is an Intellivision II with Nurmix cable converters and Flashback controllers (plus the cables are much longer than stock).
I just relived my childhood. I had #Intellivision II with Burgertime. I also had 2600, 5200, 7800, and Colecovision, so I appreciate a channel who played these now “retro” games when they were new.
WPIX in New York also did that call-in play. Hearing these kids frantically yelling PIX!! PIX!! was ridiculous, but at the time we were all rooting for them at home. BTW, the "improved" sports games were also available for the 2600 under the "M Network" brand. I remember playing the football and baseball games.
The video said the original keyboard component was never released. However, it actually was released in an extremely limited number. Mattel later offered to buy them all back when they decided to drop it completely. I saw one that never sold in a store in the mid 80's for some ridiculously low price. If I'd known how rare they'd be, I'd have bought it, but by that time I was saving up for an Amiga.
I started on Intellivision in 1980, Tron Deadly Disc and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was my favorite. Still my favorite game systems. I have one today and still play it
Night Stalker and Lock & Chase is what I remember playing the second and third most. Soccer was my favourite. I still have the system and a bunch of games. Thinking about selling it all at some point along with tons of Subbuteo that I haven't used for years.
The first console I ever bought for myself was the Tandyvision One; the Intellivision rebranded for Radio Shack. It was in the 1983 catalog for $249.95 and was conspicuously absent from the 1984 catalog. I got mine late in 1984 (about a month before Christmas) for $74.95 and I managed to get a lot of used games at the local record store/comic shop. I loved that thing and played the hell out of it. My favorite game was TRON Deadly Discs. It had the vibe of the movie down a hell of a lot better than the arcade version. Pitfall, Burger TIme, Baseball, and Astro Smash were also at the top of my list, and I always wanted to try Micro Surgeon but it was always too expensive for me, even on the used market. I never had the peripherals, but if I were to get back into it, I would have to have TRON and try out an Intellivoice. Great video.
Had one as a small kid. I can still hear the music to Snafu lol. Burger time another big one at home. Baseball, bowling, downhill skiing, Utopia... I remember these games.
The call in show that I remember in SoCal was called tvPOWWW! And you had to yell into the phone “POW!” and you’d win prizes. Found a clip of it here: th-cam.com/video/6elvt9QWDg4/w-d-xo.html
That's a great revisit to a system and set of games that I've NO IDEA how my Mom was able to afford. Knowing what games for systems cost now (one of the preventative measures that I take pride in as a not-addicted gamer) I can only imagine the DEBT that my Mom would have gotten in to give me the digital world back then. Still, the hours, days, levels and memories are cherished and while Jeff (my best friend then) and I only had three summers to go from MY house (an Intellivision household) to his home (an Atari 2600 household). those times and memories fuel me to this day. Thanks for the revisit. The MAGIC of Microsurgeon is almost beyond description. The favorite game overall for Jeff and I were hours upon hours of Baseball, then Tron Deadly Discs. Thanks for the infusion of a system I really do consider lifeblood.
When I was a kid I went to my cousin's house and he had a brand new NES. I was born in 1986 so this would have been like in the early 90s. I wanted an NES so badly. So I begged my parents for one. My dad goes up to the attic and brings down an Intellivision and almost every game that ever came out for it. In the late 70s and early 80s he was a young doctor who had just started making money and he bought everything for the system. I originally thought he bought it for my much older (20+ years older) siblings but as an adult I asked him and found out that he actually bought it for himself.
In that era of gaming everyone believed they'd only ever need one console so I never did get my own NES. I actually only had the Intellivision and didn't really know there was anything better until I finally got a N64 around 2001. Major upgrade. lol
So despite being a 90s kid, my early years of gaming were exclusively on the Intellivision. Thanks for this video, brought back lots of memories.
Great story!
My kids, born in 2001 and 2003, have the Wii, and it's the Nintendo 64 that they gravitate to!
That's an interesting story thank you, and although I was born in 1967, mine has some similarities...
In the 1980's we had an Intellivision and I played it like crazy until the crash, and I didn't really think much of consoles again after that, though I did play the occasional game on PC (because I became an electrical engineer and was working in computing).
Then one day in the late 1990's my fiance - who was a doctor then (she has since earned a PhD in genetics and runs a lab now) - suggested we rent a Nintendo 64 to play in the hospital, because she was the Registrar on Christmas Day. That was cool because she got quadruple pay, her family were Orthodox and celebrated Christmas in January anyway, and there's hardly anyone in a small private hospital on Christmas Day, so we could sit in the Registrar's Room playing video games, and she would have to pop out for a quick round every hour or so.
Well ... we rented it, and Super Mario 64, and exactly as you said, it was a major upgrade. The thing completely blew my mind in fact, and I have owned every Nintendo console since then (plus various others), and still play video games to this day.
So my early years of gaming were also on the Intellivision, and this video brought back lots of great memories for me too thank you...
;-)
"didn't really know there was anything better until..." There wasn't really anything better. NES survived longer with more games, and Duck Hunt🦆, but not really better. Being of that older generation, I was in middle school when the market crashed, and naturally assumed video games were just for children, and teenagers did cool things, with grown-up stuff like cars and even go to arcades. Not staying indoors with kid game! It was only with 8-bit computers that hanging out with your teenage friends playing games was cool. Modems were for rich kids, so no "hacking". Those who could did so mostly to not pay the outrageous telephone charges! So it wasn't like you were really far behind in any way. Nintendo came out when I was working at Toys r' us, and I just wasn't going to spend my money on a console and cartridges that I couldn't type a school paper on. It was my little sister who begged my parents for one. Sorry I turned this into a long essay!
That's wonderful to read your shared gaming experience.
When I was a kid I begged my parents for a Nintendo 64. I never received one though, because my parents had the standing statement of "We have favorite shows to watch. We will not be able to watch our shows if you're gaming." Instead, I spent my childhood gaming on a Gateway Desktop Computer that ran Windows 95. I played Tomb Raider, Star Wars X-Wing, and many other favorites. The Desktop Computer continued to be upgraded as time went by: Windows 98, Windows 2000.
Finally in 2001, I received my first gaming console, PlayStation 2.
I remember Christmas 1979 when I got my first intellivision. Those were the days
For a second I thought I was watching a 🎲Mark Dice 🎲 video. Same theme song lol.
Burger time was addictive, I owe it still today on a couple of consoles.
Y TRON :)
Man, I was glued to that game.
Same for me from France. I don’t how many hours I spent on it day and night with my relatives, especially my mum. We were addicted to it. Really great memories ❗️👍
I used to call Mattel electronics and talk to the blue sky rangers and they would tell me the titles of new games coming out. i even wrote them a letter saying that i had ideas for new games. they sent me a coupon and a really nice letter saying that they didn't accept unsolicited ideas. I still see Intellivision in the games of today.
That's cool that you were so motivated.
Ahead of your time, inspirational
Lol now there’s a feedback button in many games and the internet so you can just post “Here’s an idea” and someone will run with it.
@@zebatov do they really, or just pretend to? I think they just work harder at making you think you're participating. And steal as much demographic data as possible while doing it.
@@astrovisionmedia9677 yeah, okay. I got a message from the "blue rangers" for you: get a job!
I got my Atari 2600 in 1979...still have it. I was never interested in intellivision and thought plimton was snobby. Went to an Atari 800 then the Mega 2st great computer. I have them all still and all work.
So I just bought an intellivision off eBay now. Looking forward to going back in time. I am an Atarian at heart but I want to go back to a time when video games were simple and fun. well done presentation.
Former Atari 800XL (later enhanced with CompyShop's +256kB RAM and Q-Meg OS) and Mega ST2 user here 🙂
Indeed, those computers had the magic about them, that all the more recent ones started to lack more and more, until it vanished in the sea of more or less homogenous PCs. Back then, playing games was a fun for the whole family and neighbours and friends.. I still recall two particular childhood guys - we've been huddling around our 8-bit computers (my 800XL, one friend's C64 and another one's ZX Spectrum) and "tortured" the joysticks while trying to beat a level or a game or some best time or best score - or just kick each other's ass in Joust or International Karate or One on One or Ballblazer.. I specifically recall the cool, StartTrek-ish feeling of the moment, when - while playing Star Raiders - one of us operated the joystick and another took care of the keyboard.. Yeah, I'd love to go back and relive the era once again.
The Mega ST2 wasn't really that much of a gaming machine (we still continued to play games mostly on our 8-bit machines), but it was a real beast, when it came to productivity. IMHO it beat all PCs of the era by a wide margin. Truly, it was an excellent machine and luckily, also quite popular here, in East Europe.
This was my first gaming platform. Thanks for reminding me of a fun time in my childhood.
The Intellivision was the best system of the pre-8-bit era, not only on a technical level, but for its unique and varied library. In my opinion, course
carljr17 colecovision had just as good or better graphics and sound. Granted it was a newer console.
I was always jealous of a couple of my friends who both had the Intellivision and coleco - i had to settle for my atari. Its funny, I remember always had to defend the ataris graphics and games from those heathens lol.
The Intellivision is actually a 16-bit console.
@@douro20 Yeah I didn't realize that until much much later
@@douro20 didn’t know that
Couple random points...
Although clearly more advanced, the Intellivision and Colecovision would have a hard time matching some 2600 games, like Solaris and even River Raid. Both have limited color palettes and more restrictive Sprite systems by comparison.
Although the Intellivision CPU is technically a 16-bit processor, I don't think the system as a whole can be called 16-bit, at a glance the CPU memory bus requirements seem like they could be more wasteful than any net advantage, or basically the CPU appears overqualified for the product.
Treasure Of Tarmin is sensational and me and a mate still play it occasionally and Horse Racing is a fantastic party game. We play it for actual money - each person gets to play ten races as the Bookie
I love this system...when I was in kid, back in that amazing summer of '82, a rich kid we knew had an Intellivision ,& I was finally invited over to play...it amazed me and it's still one of my favorite systems, today👍
I played on my friend's original Intellivision. I got an Intellivision II for Christmas in 1983. This was after the models had been steeply discounted. Some of our favorite games were baseball, football, Utopia, horse racing, Tron deadly discs, Sea Battle, and those ever addictive biplanes in Triple Action. In 1984, as part of the video game bust, Mattel had an offer where you could buy two games and get two free games off a long list of games. I bought a number of discounted games from stores eliminating their inventory. Then I mailed off for my free games. The free games were often the better games. Mattel got flooded with responses. I chose to wait. I eventually received all these great games two at a time in our rural mailbox. Fun times!
We used to make bets, my brothers and I! Who would win at Sea Battle, many good times, the tri planes where fun also, in their simplicity, I find some of these games more enjoyable than today’s high technology packed ones.
Burger time rocked i play the hell out of it that damn pickle would always do me in. This and night stalker we the best
kevin Jhonson Have you seen the new Night Stalker for the Intellivision Amico?
@@vc8my it's not gunna come out. Things from a new age intellivision crew that's kinda sketchy with how they're handling this
I remember the hockey game, you could get into fights and be sent to the penalty box. The basketball game was also fantastic, boxing was incredible, as was the football game. The best game they had though was baseball. We had out entire neighborhood over, playing that game. It was like we had our own season with out own team's. Some of the best memories of my childhood.
Hahaha. Yes thanks for remembering that.
Lots of 1-0 games. Lol
I loved their Advanced Dungeons and Dragons
Me too! I remember the place where they'd sell the games, the smell of coffee, kids playing snd arguing whose turn was it to play ad&d. They only had one ad&d for several months and everybody was waiting for their own cartridge to arrive in the country. As a 12-yo kid I would just take a bus and travel 20 km each day to the store just to see the game and maybe get a chance to actually play. I loved the feeling of anticipation and I marvelled about the amazing feeling to play video games. To move objects on the tv screen and not just watch tv shows. After a few years, I sold my console and about 20 games and both a vcr. That was too a revolutionary concept. Watching all kinds of movies at home. I got back into gaming and got myself the colecovision, and after that c64, then Amica. These games contributed so much in my life. I still sometimes think about the ad&d and feel the mystery of it all. I consider myself lucky to have lived this era and experienced first hand the beginning and evolution of the whole videogame industry.
I still remember all the sounds in that game. Use to love the Arrow counting noise yell
@@nova6556 Agree , me and my friend hung out as mall rats to play
I used to panic when I came across a monster. I've got this on an emulator, can't play it cause of the control method. I actually have this console, the A D & D cartridge and a few others Tron included.
Sadly the console display is not too good, needs attention.
Played tron on this with my brother, best version of tron. I bought one of these a few years back for my collection.
I had an intellivision. Out of the 3 systems, intellivision had the best sports games
They did. I used to play the baseball and football games all the time! I also liked hockey and bowling.
Now I miss my Intellivision. ☹️
the flashback unit works decently if you're in a pinch / otherwise its RF to a modulation device then an upscaler (retrotink) to your HD panel haha
@@jonniefast Is this the method to get an old time console to work with a modern TV?
I got one still
Excellent video! I bought my console in 1982 and had the Intellivoice by Christmas that year.
I immediately bought the adaptive joysticks at Sears as I couldn't tolerate those discs.
Burgertime was indeed the most addictive game, and I still get a thrill out of bowling
a 200 (or 76 in Pick-up Spares) for the reward of that 1812 Overture!
My brother and I were born in 1982, and we grew up playing the early '80s version that my dad had bought. "Space Armada" was my favorite game.
Thats a good one I also liked astrosmash also imagic had some cool games
Tron deadly disc, my favorite! Played that in and out.
So much fun
Omg I remember..
Space Battle actually was supposed to be Battlestar Galactica. Matell made a handheld BG game but lost the rights shortly before the Intellivision went to market. Supposedly, there were some carts produced with the BG logo label instead of Space Battle.
Imagic Microsurgeon was such a fantastic game. Very difficult to play at the more difficult level, but brilliantly creative.
Agree. It was delightfully weird and I played it constantly.
As a 40-year-old who has been gaming literally since Pong, I will unironically say that (IMHO, of course) B-17 Bomber is THE "Greatest Video Game of All Time." Not only is the gameplay completely on point, but given the technical limitations of the system it's an out and out marvel that it works so freakin' well!
yeah it was fun.
BANDIT'S THREE O'CLOCK
B17 and Dungeons and Dragons were my go-tos. And I remember getting excited whenever a new Imagic game came out. They had the best box and label art.
CantankerousDave Dungeons and Dragons treasure of Tarmin was hands down the best game for the system. Probably the 1st first person shooter game ever made.
The talking blew my mind at the time.
All of my friends got Ataris for Christmas in early 80s...I didnt! To make up for it, my mom placed an order for me to get the Intellivision 1 through the Service Merchandise Catalog. It continued to stay on backorder and I never got it. The result was that I never got the video game "bug" like my other friends. Oh...the scars of youth!! 😉
Really enjoyed your unboxing of the Burger Time. Thanks!!
Fantastic overview. I forgot how much fun I used to have playing these games!
Same for me in France 👍
The Sears Super Video Arcade (the Sears version of the original Intellivision) also had detachable controllers at Sears' insistence. They're also the same styling as the Intellivision I controllers (including the bubbled feel for the keypad) but are molded in cream-colored plastic. The best thing is that those controllers have the same bubble feel for the keypad and also work fine in the Inty II.
I had one of those for a short time (it was in bad shape, so I sold it off pretty quickly) - totally forgot it had detachable controllers!
Yeah, that's the console I grew up with.
I asked my parents for the Intellivision game system for Christmas 1980. I didn't expect to get it, but it was the Sears version and I was a bit upset, but once I played it for the first time...Wow! All of my cousins, friends etc had the Atari 2600, and they hated the INTV. Lol!
Great memories
Thx for the upload
My Sears did not have detachable controllers..late 1981odel.
This was a trip down memory lane. I have a lot of my old video game consoles but never knew what happened to my Intellivision. have go looking for one now. thanks.
I remember buying the keyboard at a game store in Santa Maria, CA, back in 1985. It had a cassette port to the left of the keyboard and came with a cassette you could use to load BASIC into the computer, then write your program and save it to a blank cassette.
My parents bought one of these for me and my younger brother in 1980 for Christmas. One of the best Christmas gifts ever!
Got my Intellivison at Christmas 1980, and I used it all the way through college at the end of the 80's. My college friends found the NBA Basketball incredibly addicting. We played that constantly.
Damn even after the nes & sega genesis you were still using the intellevision ?
@@Mike-t5r9q I got in in Christmas 1980, and was in college in 87, so... Like I said, despite the graphics not being as good as the more recent stuff in the late 80s, certain games very very addictive.
@peteg475 do you still play intellivision nowadays ? I was born in 1991 so way after intellivision first came out but it's actually my first console I ever played & owned because it was a hand me down from my uncle who bought it in 1980 when he was a kid. I played alot of tron, that beauty and the beast game, ashrosmash and boxing such a fan console at the time I played it alot in the 90s up till I got an n64 in 1996 when that console first came out lol I'm trying to find an emulator for intellivision but for some reason that console is the hardest one to find there's not many emulators for that console
@@Mike-t5r9q No, ancient history. Good memories, though. but Atari recently bought the Intellivision library. Not sure if they'll do anything with it.
@peteg475 that's pretty much the same with me but it still be cool to have an emulator of intellivision on my phone just for old time sakes for fun lol. Atari is probably going to do nothing with intellivision unfortunately. Intellivision is just not really popular like the original Nintendo. Alot of people don't even know what intellivision is lol I'm just one of the rare ones
I had an Atari 2600 as my first cartridge-based game system, and I would play the Intellivision at other people's houses. After getting my first job in 1986 (my first paycheck was spent on an Atari 2600jr. console, a couple paychecks later I bought an NES) I worked with a guy who had an Intellivision II with bad controllers that he sold to me for $5. He also gave me a catalog from INTV that his family had gotten in the mail. I bought new controllers from INTV, and started grabbing games cheap. The discount racks at Toys R' Us was a great place to shop, along with getting new titles. I'm glad that I got into the Intellivision at that point in time, it was just when my collecting instinct was kicking in. I bought nearly all of the late releases all the way until the end of INTV Corporation. It's remained one of my favorite machines I've ever owned.
A couple of weeks before Christmas (back in the 70s), my family was shopping at Montgomery Wards, when we came upon the Intellivision display. Somehow, through some miracle, my brother and I talked my dad into buying it for us. He did, and we played endless games of basketball, and baseball, which I think were the best games they put out.
I was clearing out my storage unit a few months ago came across the Intellivoice module with a couple of the games that went with my Intellivision console, even though I don't have the console anymore.
Love this! I have most of those games. I can still hear... "the code the code, figure out the code!" from Bomb Squad. My favs were Star Strike, Night Stalker, Frog Bog, then later Burger Time and Bump & Jump.
Mattel did come out with a joy stick for the Intellevision's control disk. The joy stick had a suction cup at it's bottom which allowed it to grab onto the top of the control disk
I'm pretty sure that was a 3rd-party accessory or, perhaps, INTV. Not an expert but used to see ads for them in Electronic Games magazine.
My first console. Dungeons and Dragons was my favorite game.
Awesome game
The snake from the Dungeons and Dragons game used to scare the shit out of me as a kid!
We had one when everyone else had the Atari. In 1980 we were on top! Our favorite was skiing and snafu.
I could play Snafu for hours.
For its time it WAS AWESOME!!! It was a Christmas gift for my sister, 10, brother, 12, and me, 8.
The yellowing from the bromine is when the plastic compound got a disproportionate amount of bromine. It can happen in the exact same batch so it doesn’t necessarily mean your controller was replaced. The same thing happened to most Super Nintendos.
Lol Frog Bog was featured in the movie “Grandma’s Boy”.
I had Intellivision as a kid. Snafu was a great game!
I still can hear that Snafu music!
That was my favorite!
I first got into the Intellivision by playing the Intellivision Lives compilation on the PS2. I got a real one shortly after that and I've been a fan ever since. I can't wait to get my hands on the Amico. It's gonna be awesome.
OMG so much time spent playing Burger Time 🍔
Great video. You brought back some good memories!
I grew up in Maryland and there were a number of kids shows on a Washington station called WDCA channel 20. They had a host, Captain 20, that would host kids show, make public service announcements, ect. One thing he did was a contest where you could call in while showing the early football game of intellivision and tell whoever was at the controls to "pass". I think the pass was always going to a receiver in the in-zone and so if the ball was caught, you got a touchdown and won a prize. You can do a search for Captain 20 so you can see who he is but no videos I know of exist online showing this contest.
Wow!! Haven't heard of Capt 20 in a while. I think I had some 'club card' from that show. Back when we had to get up to change the tv channel!
we got joy sticks that would slide on to the disc controller brings back memories the problem is it used to overheat after a while ,unles just our intervision
I had an Intellivision II and the IntelliVoice module. I remember one game, must have been a space game, would report on system damage. One thing it seemed to say is "Fashion Computer two thirds down".
I had this and the intelivoice attachment (B-17 was my fav game).
B-17 BAALLLLMERRRR!!!
😂😂
@@vc8my TARGET CLOSE!!!
I loved bombing England. "UH OH. THAT WAS NOT THE TARGET!"
My one cousin had the intellivision, another cousin had Vectrex, my 2 friends had Atari 2600 and coleco respectively. I love the art on the intellivision, when you held up the gambling game I had major flashbacks. Then I got a Vic 20, then commodore 64, hard to believe it was 40 years ago. Love this thank you.
Mattel ended offering the Aquarius, as a basic personal computer. It had BASIC, and some few games. You recorded your programs in a separate cassette player. Those were good times! Congrats for the video!
I started on the NES, and I love learning about the history before. Wow! You have great passion for this system. Thanks for sharing!
This brings back so many memories. Intellivision was my first game console.
I have an original test marketed Intellivision along with the original box. However, I'm the 2nd owner of the system. I bought it on eBay from a man who bought the Intellivision new in 1979 during test marketing. It works as it should without any problems. It took me a while to figure out how to use the keypad to play the games, but thank God for the overlays to help out.
I really enjoyed this video! You did a great job
@Metal JesusRocks,
When it comes to setting up your Intellivision II to the T.V. you have, I noticed you use a Philmore Antenna/Cable/VCR Switch AB78
Rather than using that, would a Video Cable RCA/Composite A/V to RF/Coax /Coaxial Converter Hdmi Modulator TV, be a successful alternative in getting the Intellivision II to function on a LCD T.V.?
@@harlemanthony8834 dude you really think your smart replying to your own comments with your five day old accounts??
It was so cool to see your comment here. Wow. 4 years later. Awesome.
My favorite was Space Hawk and the Great Value version of Pac-Man: Lock-N-Chase! Also Frog Bog!
Taking a History of Technology class in college and I am doing a presentation on the Intellivision. So much good information here thank you for this video!
Intellivision was my first console. vary rare here in mexico. I remember playing burger time with my dad all Saturdays- it was a real party time. very good memories. thank you!!
Burgertime actually did get released in a gatefold box. I have one.
Yep, me too. I'm in Australia. I wonder if it was a regional release outside of the US?
Ahh..my first ever video console..B-17 Bomber, Demon Attack, Dracula..nice memories of a long time ago.
I have two intellivisions that I inherited when my dad passed last year. The one system is the one my sister and I received for Christmas either late 70’s or early 80’s. It still has the joystick attachments I got because I didn’t love the disc.
I grew up on this system. A lot of good memories for me!
Nicely done video. Having flashbacks to my youth here - was born in early 70s so Atari, Intellivision, and Colecovision came along at just the right time for me. Never owned the Int. but a friend did and plenty of good memories from time we spent playing the excellent sports games, Sea Battle, etc.
I just found this video. I loved my Intellivision. Got one new in 1981, and had it through the 80’s. Had a lot of games. I purchased an Intellivision Flashback to put in my game room. It has a lot of great games but one I miss that I loved playing was Truckin’ by Imagic. Thanks for the video!
When I was a kid. My dad had one of these. I loved playing it. I knew to hook it up and set up the games from a young age (4-6 yrs old). They're were only a few game that I were good at like Night Stalker, Astrosmash, Tron: Deadly disk, Burgertime, Lock n Chase, Armor Battle. and some I could not figure out. Like Space Hawk, Space Battle, D&D.
Well, one day. My dad had the case open to clean the inside, it was an Intellivision 2. And me as a young boy asked him what a microchip was. So he pulles out one of the sockes chips to show me. But when he tried to put it back, he snapped off one of the pins. And that was that. Within a week it, and all the games were in the trash.
I loved Armor Battle... Thanks for that memory. I almost forgot about that. My brother and I would play for hours on that game.
Your format is interesting, simply point a camera and Suresh about your real childhood. I appreciate it. I'm a collector and have many of my original consoles. While I do like the fee games I have completed and in good condition, my collection gets used regularly so I'm not concerned about struggling to keep things mint. As long as the games and consoles work, I'm a happy boy.
I started gaming before the atari even came out.i had combat and pong on individual consoles.i thought at some point I'd cut back on gaming,but i still game almost everyday.i really love all the new systems that are out,but seeing videos like this really bring back memories.🕹🎮
I am loving this video, the Intellivision was my first video game console! I still have it and about 70 or so games. I will be honest, though - when you ripped that BurgerTime open, I felt a little sad (the collector in me did at least...)
I used to go over to my uncle Todd's and play Intellivision for hours on weekends. I played Space Spartans so intensely that I still have a permanent scar on my left thumb from holding down the fire button even though it's decades later and I'm almost 49 years old now! I have the new retro system that came out some years ago, but I've contemplated getting a real authentic classic one again so I can enjoy the games as they were back in those early 80's.
Thanks for sharing. My siblings and I also grew up playing the Intellivision, and actually my parents would play it with us... so we kinda looked like the family shown on the top of the box, lol. We had the 1st console, along with an Intellivision II, Intellivoice, and also the Intellivision System Changer. I still have everything and it all works, except I need a new AC adapter for the Intellivision 2. My favorite games are Tron Deadly Discs, Space Spartans, and Treasure of Tarmin.
Never had an Intellivision but the hand held Mattel electronic games (i.e. football) were awesome at that time. I had an Atari 2600 and 5200 also ColecoVision (with the adapter) and Coleco Gemini. Those systems were awesome. The video game crash was crazy because they became over saturated with Games and Consoles and people were getting into computers although everybody couldn't afford one. I hate when people use the terms "everybody did it" because it's not true...just say that "people were doing it". Glad to see so many getting into retro gaming...I better get mine before the prices go up
Skiing, baseball and biplanes were the huge hits for me and my family and friends. Played many a baseball tournament at parties. The weak point of the Intellivision (at the least version 1 which we all had in my circle) was the controllers. The number pads would wear out as I recall. I seem to recall a fix for that but don't recall the details. The overlays would wear out after much use too. This was the second gaming system that I had in my life, the first being the original pong.
I was 9 years old in 1982 and played the crap out of my intellivision. I had most of the games you showed here and was partial to Astrosmash, Night Stalker and Bump 'N' Jump
I got swollen thumbs from those damn side buttons playing Armor Battle so much.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
My aunt and uncle had the Sears version and when we would sleep over their house, we used to play it endlessly. Finally, Christmas 1982 my parents bought us one (original Intellivision I). We had a good amount of games for it and even had the later produced computer add-on.
The Poker and Blackjack game was always fun. We also loved Frog Bog, Electric Company games, Baseball, Lock N Chase, Burgertime, Pitfall, Atlantis and Star Strike.
Great video man, I also watched your repair video. I grew up with the colecovision and the 2600 but never had an intellivision. I recently picked up a stack of intellivision games at a local pawn shop and can't wait to get an intellivision!
My first game console ever that my best friend had left me as a gift. 1989! We played Frog Bog 1vs1 so much.
I had the first version of this console. Bought it at Radio Shack back in 1983. My nephews and nieces played it so much, that the first unit burned out about a year later, so I bought a second unit. Burger Time was our favorite game of the 30 or so that we had.
I remember when my dad got the gold n brown Intelivision console for the family so it Keep my brother, sister and I busy. My favorite games were Sub Hunt, SNAFU, Burger Time, Auto Racing and Soccer and still to this day I play video games. Great walk down memory lane listening to the sound effects and seeing some of these games I forgot even existed.
I loved the plastic inserts that came with each game. I loved playing baseball with my dad and pressing hard on those diamond inserts hoping to get the runner out. Those inserts wore out as well as the buttons on the controllers. The large circle buttons on the controller controlled the throw, which help curve the pitch. Also, I remember posing next to the video screen which showed my high score for Pitfall. My mom sent the picture to whoever and they sent back a Pitfall patch. Lost the patch, but would love to have that picture back. We had Intellivision 1 & 3, which both looked alike. Neighbor had 2 which looked differently (Smaller & White, I believe). Watching this video I now recall the card game and the noise it made with those "clicks". Love these memories
I'd like to thank you very much for doing this wonderful stroll down memory lane. The Mattel INTELLIVISION was the 2nd console I came in contact with after playing on the ATARI 2600. A friend and I spent countless hours playing AUTO RACING (which totally blew my mind since at that time I only knew NIGHT DRIVER on the 2600), FROG BOG (loved the graphics), Imagic's ATLANTIS, DEMON ATTACK and DRACULA (all of which were really "premium" experiences for me at that time). To this day the INTELLIVISION holds a special place in my heart and I am thinking about picking up a console on ebay and other such places.
Being able to drive away and venture out into the 'Twilight Zone' tracks (as called them) was what blew our minds.
I had both the Intellivision and the Intellivision II. One thing that I discovered that no one that I've ever talked to seemed to know: with the Intellivision II, you can find joystick extension cables for the Atari, and you cam use those extension cables with the Intellivision II, so you can have a really long cable for the controllers and you could sit really comfortably on the sofa. The cables that came with the hand controllers were way too short.
I had the first one. i found it in the garage when i was a kid and my dad hooked it up. i loved that thing
Great stuff! The Intellivision was my first console too. I appreciate the detailed history and gameplay. Keep it up!
You're my hero, games are meant to be played, and to be left sealed!
The Intelevision was our families first console. We had the keyboard and the intelevoice addon. We had Space Spartains which used the voice. It was the bomb back in the day. Armoured Tank was me and my brothers favourite game. Chasing each other around and shooting.
Very Nostalgic. Had both of them, and the TI-99/4a Home Computer in the early 80's. Black Jack and poker, along with Utopia were games way ahead of their time.
I spent hours on Tron deadly discs and Astro smash. I still have my original and television had all the games in my bedroom as well as the original box which is a little smashed. Some days when my kids move out and I get my own game room, I will be setting up all of my consuls and my in television. Just thinking about all those hours sitting at home lost in my television games. Some of the best times of my life. 1979 and 1980 was a great time to be young. I remember at some time also sending away for a new replacement side button set that was harder than the original.
At 8:54, the controller is popped out of the Intellivision II. We have found that the best combination of compatibility and control is an Intellivision II with Nurmix cable converters and Flashback controllers (plus the cables are much longer than stock).
I just relived my childhood. I had #Intellivision II with Burgertime. I also had 2600, 5200, 7800, and Colecovision, so I appreciate a channel who played these now “retro” games when they were new.
My thumbs used to get so sore playing hockey! Great memories
When I was 8 in 1978 had an Atari, then a Colecovision in 1982.... bit my Uncle bought an Intellavision between the two I had..great fun
WPIX in New York also did that call-in play. Hearing these kids frantically yelling PIX!! PIX!! was ridiculous, but at the time we were all rooting for them at home.
BTW, the "improved" sports games were also available for the 2600 under the "M Network" brand. I remember playing the football and baseball games.
The video said the original keyboard component was never released. However, it actually was released in an extremely limited number. Mattel later offered to buy them all back when they decided to drop it completely. I saw one that never sold in a store in the mid 80's for some ridiculously low price. If I'd known how rare they'd be, I'd have bought it, but by that time I was saving up for an Amiga.
An "Amiga" ! Yesss!! I got the Amiga 1000 when new for around $2000.00. Miss it like crazy.
The Microsurgeon box, along with the Demon Attack box were so cool to me. Loved Demon Attack. Great commentary throughout. Thanks.
Nice trip down nostalgia lane. You've got my sub. Definitely looking forward to checking out the rest of your vids.
I loved my Intellivision! Utopia, Sea Battle. Of course the sports titles were awesome!@
I started on Intellivision in 1980, Tron Deadly Disc and Advanced Dungeons and Dragons was my favorite. Still my favorite game systems. I have one today and still play it
Night Stalker and Lock & Chase is what I remember playing the second and third most. Soccer was my favourite. I still have the system and a bunch of games. Thinking about selling it all at some point along with tons of Subbuteo that I haven't used for years.
I got an intellivission version one in 1997(ish) but only remember the tank game we had. To bad we don't have one anymore, would love to play it again
The first console I ever bought for myself was the Tandyvision One; the Intellivision rebranded for Radio Shack. It was in the 1983 catalog for $249.95 and was conspicuously absent from the 1984 catalog. I got mine late in 1984 (about a month before Christmas) for $74.95 and I managed to get a lot of used games at the local record store/comic shop. I loved that thing and played the hell out of it. My favorite game was TRON Deadly Discs. It had the vibe of the movie down a hell of a lot better than the arcade version. Pitfall, Burger TIme, Baseball, and Astro Smash were also at the top of my list, and I always wanted to try Micro Surgeon but it was always too expensive for me, even on the used market. I never had the peripherals, but if I were to get back into it, I would have to have TRON and try out an Intellivoice. Great video.
TRON DEADLY DISC .. A masterpiece, i agree
Had one as a small kid. I can still hear the music to Snafu lol. Burger time another big one at home. Baseball, bowling, downhill skiing, Utopia... I remember these games.
The call in show that I remember in SoCal was called tvPOWWW! And you had to yell into the phone “POW!” and you’d win prizes. Found a clip of it here: th-cam.com/video/6elvt9QWDg4/w-d-xo.html
That's a great revisit to a system and set of games that I've NO IDEA how my Mom was able to afford. Knowing what games for systems cost now (one of the preventative measures that I take pride in as a not-addicted gamer) I can only imagine the DEBT that my Mom would have gotten in to give me the digital world back then. Still, the hours, days, levels and memories are cherished and while Jeff (my best friend then) and I only had three summers to go from MY house (an Intellivision household) to his home (an Atari 2600 household). those times and memories fuel me to this day. Thanks for the revisit. The MAGIC of Microsurgeon is almost beyond description. The favorite game overall for Jeff and I were hours upon hours of Baseball, then Tron Deadly Discs. Thanks for the infusion of a system I really do consider lifeblood.