My dad LOVED this game. We got the voice module and the first time we heard "BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMUUR" we were excited. My mom cringed. She hated the fake Southern accents. One night my dad was up until almost 2 am playing this. I could barely get any sleep because even with the sound turned down the voices were annoying. My mom finally got of bed to yell at my dad. "Why are you still up playing with that?" My dad never missed an opportunity for a witty return. "I have to make the world safe for democracy."
Never had a chance to ever play this game. But the historical significance of this game is nothing to scoff at. This game was one of the first games if not the first game to have a voice added in the game.
Crap... I'm old. I'm 52 in 2022! I was a teen in South America Playing this game at my buddy's house. It was light yrs ahead of it's time and we would spend every weekend playin it. Glad I was able to see the beginning of it all.
Fun fact: those garbled-beyond-recognition voices are [allegedly] Philip Proctor and Phil Austin, members of the Firesign Theatre who're responsible for some of the funniest surreal comedy ever recorded. Proctor's actually had an impressively long career in voice acting (albeit in mostly minor roles) and is joined by Firesign founder, Peter Bergman on another Voice Synthesis game, Bomb Squad
It’s a shame that the intellivoice wasn’t more successful because I think the voice sounds amazing for the time. But then again there is the problem of the voice usually being useless.
When I was a kid I played in practice mode just so I could bomb everything and clear out Europe. I also tried bombing England with everything I had just to see how negative the score could go and the weird characters they would show as the score went down. Fun times.
Thank you for posting this! My Dad would love playing this game & I would love to watch him. My father passed in 2000 & B-17 Bauuuuumer is a magical memory.
My Dad was the same. He loved this game. He went for the faraway targets mostly. Aaah, those good old days. I even used to bomb my airfield for a laugh.
I went to visit my grandma in 96, I was 15, I stayed at their house for a week...One long week... after a few days she told me about the video game that they had and it was this game. All I remember was the B17 Bombeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr LoL.
That voice at the beginning always cracks me up with how country it is... kinda amazing the Intellivoice could do all those different voices and accents and stuff!
I got this game during Christmas of 1982 and loved it. I didn't get the separately sold Intellivoice module right away but found it wasn't necessary to play this game. The module was especially useful in alerting you from which clock position enemy fighters were attacking. However, I found that when I heard the approaching fighter sound effects (generated from the main console), I would simply cycle through my gunners' positions to spot the attacking fighter.
This takes me back the magic period between when the home gaming market crashed and right before Nintendo revived it. My father bought an intellivision on clearance and I loved playing this game and a few others.
man i love this era of gaming, so many games trying to do very cool and innovative stuff, be it a (heavily simplified) flight sim of B-17 operations or the Shuttle simulator on atari, you just didn't see much of this stuff in the NES/Master system era or beyond for some time.
Seeing this has unlocked a memory....some kid whom wasn't really my friend showed me this, and then wouldn't let me play it....I really wanted too, mom and dad weren't the type to buy game console. Might hunt around for the 2024 version of this now and finally have a go.
I'd imagine that speech would probably fill about 80% of the cartridge. We used to have an Intellivision console in the shop I worked at in the 80's and we had this cart, but in the 8 years I worked there we never sold it, it was there when I started in 1981 and it was still there when I left in 1989. No one in the UK had the console, it was more computers here, not even the NES or SNES were big here.
@@robertwilson3866 The keyboard add-on wasn’t even released (prompting an investigation into allegations of false advertising). It would have been awesome!
Loved this game in 82, I was 11. I remember that you could decrease the number of bombs for more fuel, and drop the RPM’s down to extend the range. I remember I got good enough to carry three bombs and take out the three furthest targets, which was difficult to do without getting shot down before returning to England.
Even as a modern gamer I can't help but love this game. The game has a mystery to it that I can't explain. Maybe it's the timeless retro art style that would be loved even today, or maybe it's the fact that you have to use your imagination to try and fly the plane. Overall a magnificently made game!
Good comment 👍. I got this game for Christmas 1982, and the imagination factor was high. This was a very sophisticated game back in the day, and one of the best.
Used to have a friend over and we'd play all night. One of us would fly and bomb and the other would man the guns. We'd play for hours. Couple a 12 year olds fighting Nazi's in the sky's over Europe. We were there. Good times.
This game exists. It was made in 2000. It's called B-17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th. And it even has a remake/remaster that's being worked on. It just didn't release for Intellivision obviously.
I used to love getting the game box opening it up in the car and reading the manual on the way home. I couldn't wait to try it out and see the graphics in action. Back then if it looked better than a blob it was great graphics.
The amount of simulation for the time is pretty impressive. You have to plan your sortie balancing fuel with making sure you have enough bombs. Deal with enemy fighters as a turret gunner at points. Scan the terrain below for your target based on your intel when you're near it.
I remember there used to be a random glitch, that would ensure the bomber could carry a virtually inexhaustible supply of bombs and fuel to just about clear the map of targets.
I think I just realized after all these years that the clicking noise on the map screen is supposed to be typewriters and isn't just a random audio artifact from our copy of the game. Ah ha moment.
Holy crow! This game looks awesome! I'm old enough to have played this game when it came out, but I never owned the system, or knew anyone that did. Wish I had this growing up.
Ha, interesting... I have never seen the gameplay of this game before, since the Angry Video Game Nerd never bothered to show it. Now having seen it, this looks like a surprisingly complex for an Intellivision game. Not a game that a child with a limited patience would enjoy, but I can see this appealing to adults. Also, even though the graphics are hardly top notch, they seem to be decent enough so that you can understand what you are looking for without having to rely too much on your imagination.
I played this game so much I wore out the plastic slide-in card that covered the controller keypad. I convinced my mom that it was a WWII educational game.
Year I was born but my brother got this for Christmas when he was kid and he used to make me cry playing "Boxing!". But it created a monster. As hard-core a gamer as I was during Nintendo 8 bit era.
I had an Atari, but my buddy had an Intellivision. This game blew me away at the time. I was 8, maybe 9. It was simply on a different level. Maybe like comparing the capabilities of a PC game to a console game. It was several steps being what I could play at home. Lol 😂😂😂😂
I just realized *who* the southern voice is supposed to emulate. Major Kong from "Dr. Strangelove." You think about it, there's not a lot of Southern-accented bombers in major movies... especially one who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!
Only time I ever got to try this was in a long gone department store near where I live now, but was visiting cousins at the time. That was over 40 years ago, and it was one of the first games I’d ever played outside of a crude & blocky 10-in-1 sports game box from Binatone here in the UK. These games look archaic and so simple now, but a lot of them still have more playability and challenge than today’s bloated high definition titles. No wonder recreations of old Commodore, Atari, Nintendo and Sega machines sell so well.
I WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE CAN VERIFY: My brother and I were playing this game 1 night and doing a mission we were trying to fly as low as we could to the water. We were so low it showed water particles hit the windshield…I want to say that it was from the props hitting the water and we did not crash. We both looked at each other in amazement. Did anyone else experience this? We could never duplicate it again.
I'm 33, and wanting to try this, opposed to getting a headset & corresponding Baby Hands VR app for my Smartphone, and *STILL* waiting for the daydream I have - where my "Mother" finally hears *MY* story & gets reprimanded at long last - to come true!!!!
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Knock off the distant targets first.Later levels make anything other than ‘milk runs’ near impossible.
My dad LOVED this game. We got the voice module and the first time we heard "BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMUUR" we were excited. My mom cringed. She hated the fake Southern accents. One night my dad was up until almost 2 am playing this. I could barely get any sleep because even with the sound turned down the voices were annoying. My mom finally got of bed to yell at my dad.
"Why are you still up playing with that?"
My dad never missed an opportunity for a witty return.
"I have to make the world safe for democracy."
I know a guy with that accent IRL.
Love this game!
That is amazing! 🤣
"I have to make the world safe for democracy." That's a strong statement, I love it. Greetings to your great dad.
😂🤣😂 I have to make the world safe for democracy!
Never had a chance to ever play this game. But the historical significance of this game is nothing to scoff at. This game was one of the first games if not the first game to have a voice added in the game.
Crap... I'm old. I'm 52 in 2022! I was a teen in South America Playing this game at my buddy's house. It was light yrs ahead of it's time and we would spend every weekend playin it. Glad I was able to see the beginning of it all.
Ever wonder where there hell the time went? I’m 52 now and I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Mattel Electronic Presents:
*BEEEE SEVEANN TEEEEEN BAWMBUUUR*
That never gets old 😂
What is that?, a corrupt polítics name?
Fun fact: those garbled-beyond-recognition voices are [allegedly] Philip Proctor and Phil Austin, members of the Firesign Theatre who're responsible for some of the funniest surreal comedy ever recorded. Proctor's actually had an impressively long career in voice acting (albeit in mostly minor roles) and is joined by Firesign founder, Peter Bergman on another Voice Synthesis game, Bomb Squad
The code! The code! Figure out the code!
Hearing the intro always makes me think of AVGN’s hilarious impression of the synthesis module’s voice.
It’s a shame that the intellivoice wasn’t more successful because I think the voice sounds amazing for the time. But then again there is the problem of the voice usually being useless.
When I was a kid I played in practice mode just so I could bomb everything and clear out Europe. I also tried bombing England with everything I had just to see how negative the score could go and the weird characters they would show as the score went down. Fun times.
might want to get an ancestry test to see if you have any irish in you.
That .. Was. ...Nawt ... A .... Target!
for a game from 1982 this looks very good and exciting
The second I saw this screen, 40 years or more have pasted, I knew exactly what was coming next, beee seventeen baawwwwwmer. LOVED this game.
The hours and hours I put into playing this game - good times. Thanks for this.
Thank you for posting this! My Dad would love playing this game & I would love to watch him. My father passed in 2000 & B-17 Bauuuuumer is a magical memory.
My Dad was the same. He loved this game. He went for the faraway targets mostly. Aaah, those good old days. I even used to bomb my airfield for a laugh.
Sorry about your father. My dad passed in 2020. We used to play Sea Battle together when I was a kid…I thought things would last forever.
@@themig71In a way they do. You are what your dad taught you. Things, knowledge lives forever.
Seeing younger people appreciating this game in the comments is a great feeling
And funny running into you here of all videos lmfao
Thanks avgn
There's a super popular retro game satire channel called "angry video game nerd" and he did a video on this game aswell as the intellivision console
I went to visit my grandma in 96, I was 15, I stayed at their house for a week...One long week... after a few days she told me about the video game that they had and it was this game. All I remember was the B17 Bombeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr LoL.
VO: *Mattel Electronics presents: BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER*
James: *BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER!!!*
VO: *BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER*
That voice at the beginning always cracks me up with how country it is... kinda amazing the Intellivoice could do all those different voices and accents and stuff!
"Tawrgeet those"
"Bawms awaayyy"
"That wuz own tawrgeet"
LOL That's the dumbest voice i've ever heard xD
beeEEEEE SEventeeeEEEEN BAWMER
I got this game during Christmas of 1982 and loved it. I didn't get the separately sold Intellivoice module right away but found it wasn't necessary to play this game. The module was especially useful in alerting you from which clock position enemy fighters were attacking. However, I found that when I heard the approaching fighter sound effects (generated from the main console), I would simply cycle through my gunners' positions to spot the attacking fighter.
This takes me back the magic period between when the home gaming market crashed and right before Nintendo revived it. My father bought an intellivision on clearance and I loved playing this game and a few others.
Wow. That b17 climbs like a fighter!
man i love this era of gaming, so many games trying to do very cool and innovative stuff, be it a (heavily simplified) flight sim of B-17 operations or the Shuttle simulator on atari, you just didn't see much of this stuff in the NES/Master system era or beyond for some time.
Seeing this has unlocked a memory....some kid whom wasn't really my friend showed me this, and then wouldn't let me play it....I really wanted too, mom and dad weren't the type to buy game console. Might hunt around for the 2024 version of this now and finally have a go.
I'd imagine that speech would probably fill about 80% of the cartridge. We used to have an Intellivision console in the shop I worked at in the 80's and we had this cart, but in the 8 years I worked there we never sold it, it was there when I started in 1981 and it was still there when I left in 1989. No one in the UK had the console, it was more computers here, not even the NES or SNES were big here.
Intellivision was the first 16 bit console. People weren't ready for it's power.
@@robertwilson3866 The keyboard add-on wasn’t even released (prompting an investigation into allegations of false advertising). It would have been awesome!
Most likely, it took up relatively little space, since most of the software required would have been in the add-on.
*BeE sEvEnTeEn BawMuUr*
BEEEE SHHHEVENTEEEN BALLLMER
BEEEE SHEVENTEEN BAWMER
BAUM SQWUD
Loved this game in 82, I was 11. I remember that you could decrease the number of bombs for more fuel, and drop the RPM’s down to extend the range. I remember I got good enough to carry three bombs and take out the three furthest targets, which was difficult to do without getting shot down before returning to England.
Same age, I used to float from max altitude without actually playing the game. 41 yrs ago man ..
Even as a modern gamer I can't help but love this game. The game has a mystery to it that I can't explain. Maybe it's the timeless retro art style that would be loved even today, or maybe it's the fact that you have to use your imagination to try and fly the plane. Overall a magnificently made game!
Good comment 👍. I got this game for Christmas 1982, and the imagination factor was high. This was a very sophisticated game back in the day, and one of the best.
nothing was more exciting than the sound of the engines starting up preflight. holy cow for an 8 year old.
Those are some cheeky 109 pilots attacking you right off the east coast of Britain.
At least they're not ME-262s. Otherwise, that's just plain Nintendo Hard. :P
To me they look more like Focke-wulf 190s.
Used to have a friend over and we'd play all night. One of us would fly and bomb and the other would man the guns. We'd play for hours. Couple a 12 year olds fighting Nazi's in the sky's over Europe. We were there. Good times.
My parents told me about this game, and now I want to see Intellevision 2, B-17 Bomber remastered.
B-29 Bomber
This game exists. It was made in 2000. It's called B-17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th. And it even has a remake/remaster that's being worked on. It just didn't release for Intellivision obviously.
I used to love getting the game box opening it up in the car and reading the manual on the way home. I couldn't wait to try it out and see the graphics in action. Back then if it looked better than a blob it was great graphics.
Dang so this was like the precourser to b17 the mighty eighth. Also the true IFR experience flying wise.
Rest in peace Uncle BB! We used to play this together when i was a little kid.😊
The voice actor for the pilot is Phil Proctor
The amount of simulation for the time is pretty impressive. You have to plan your sortie balancing fuel with making sure you have enough bombs. Deal with enemy fighters as a turret gunner at points. Scan the terrain below for your target based on your intel when you're near it.
I remember there used to be a random glitch, that would ensure the bomber could carry a virtually inexhaustible supply of bombs and fuel to just about clear the map of targets.
I think I just realized after all these years that the clicking noise on the map screen is supposed to be typewriters and isn't just a random audio artifact from our copy of the game. Ah ha moment.
I always thought my game was glitching,
What clicking noise???
Holy crow! This game looks awesome! I'm old enough to have played this game when it came out, but I never owned the system, or knew anyone that did. Wish I had this growing up.
Had this game but I couldn't figure out how to play it because I was so young
Ha, interesting... I have never seen the gameplay of this game before, since the Angry Video Game Nerd never bothered to show it. Now having seen it, this looks like a surprisingly complex for an Intellivision game. Not a game that a child with a limited patience would enjoy, but I can see this appealing to adults. Also, even though the graphics are hardly top notch, they seem to be decent enough so that you can understand what you are looking for without having to rely too much on your imagination.
I played this game so much I wore out the plastic slide-in card that covered the controller keypad. I convinced my mom that it was a WWII educational game.
It kinda was educational. Very comprehensive sim for its day.
Dear, dear. The hours & hours of brain cells burned playing this game back in the day! ;)
0:02 thanks avgn
Such great childhood memories...loved this game. Thanks for posting!
Watch out for FLAK!
My favorite phrase from the game
Busted out laughing when I heard the computer southern voice
BAY SEVENTEEEEEEN BAWLMER. BAWMS AWAAAAAAAAY. THAYAT WAS AWN TAWRGYET
Mattel Electronics presents: BEEE SEVENTEEN BAAHHMER
Year I was born but my brother got this for Christmas when he was kid and he used to make me cry playing "Boxing!". But it created a monster. As hard-core a gamer as I was during Nintendo 8 bit era.
I had an Atari, but my buddy had an Intellivision. This game blew me away at the time. I was 8, maybe 9. It was simply on a different level. Maybe like comparing the capabilities of a PC game to a console game. It was several steps being what I could play at home. Lol 😂😂😂😂
I still have my Intellivision and Intellivoice almost every game.
What an ignominious end: fallen in the Baltic and never seen again. If only the navigator had better projected the fuel use!
"One .45 caliber handgun, one packet of chewing gum..."
It's to bad James never actually got to the game I could totally see him rage at this
I just realized *who* the southern voice is supposed to emulate. Major Kong from "Dr. Strangelove." You think about it, there's not a lot of Southern-accented bombers in major movies... especially one who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!
Yeah, I think it’s a subtle reference. Pretty cool :)
Sweet gameplay Phil!
I played this at my girlfriend's house. My favorite phrase was, "Watch out for flack!"
I love this! My uncle had this.
Only time I ever got to try this was in a long gone department store near where I live now, but was visiting cousins at the time.
That was over 40 years ago, and it was one of the first games I’d ever played outside of a crude & blocky 10-in-1 sports game box from Binatone here in the UK.
These games look archaic and so simple now, but a lot of them still have more playability and challenge than today’s bloated high definition titles.
No wonder recreations of old Commodore, Atari, Nintendo and Sega machines sell so well.
One of my favorites next to Sea Battle .
LOL, the Intellivision voice is clearly from Texas. At 5:15 "That wuz owooooon Towuurrgit" 🤠
The mayday message is stressing my head off!
If you do complete the game...
GAME OVER
THE GERMANS REFUSED TO SURRENDER
Never imagined this to be a simulation, reminds me of Silent Service!
Gomer Pyle on a Bomber crew!
Y'all come back naw, y'hear.
I remember when this was cutting-edge. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
So many memories of an 7th grader me playing this.
The bombardier sounds like Slim Pickens
How can I get my computer to make this exact voice? I want that chunky sound.
Me and Murphy played this at his house. Always cracked up at B 17 boumer. Dammit man!!
Loved this game had so many great missions
I always wanted Intellivoice for this game.
for a console made in 79, and the game made in 81, it really is impressive.
even the *BEESEVENTEENBAUMMER!!*
DCS World, but it’s on Intellivision. ;)
War Thunder, but where the bomber actually gets to bomb.
Hated once your map say the target is there you had to click off bomber mode and back on
'Tel Electronics presents...
*BAAY SEVENTAYHN BAWMBR*
Mayday...
"Watch for flak!"
"You can make fun of their controllers if you must, but their sports games are really good."
Garrett Woolf here and Mattel Electronics presents B-17 Bomber 0:00
I WANT TO KNOW IF ANYONE CAN VERIFY: My brother and I were playing this game 1 night and doing a mission we were trying to fly as low as we could to the water. We were so low it showed water particles hit the windshield…I want to say that it was from the props hitting the water and we did not crash. We both looked at each other in amazement. Did anyone else experience this? We could never duplicate it again.
I've never seen that. What mode were you in? Pilot? 12 o'clock guns?
My brother and I loved this game
Pretty dang impressive for a video game this ancient to do a southern accent
BEEEE SHEVETIIN BAMMER
Very impressive speech synth
Classic!!
how would anything climb to 10000ft going 100mph?
BOMBS AWAY!!!!
... Is that Phil Austin or Phil Proctor? I'm pretty sure it wasn't Peter Bergman.
Proctor is the pilot & Austin is the bombers
I dare someone to make it say "iF yOu dOnT HavE my MoNeY, You aRE Mine!"
Regardless of outcome:
Bowwmms awwaaay!
*Completely misses by half a screen*
That waws own targeet!
Bawmer.
biii seventeeen bombaaa
The synthetic voice sounds like actor Pat Buttram, autotuned ;)
Talk about memory lane lol
I love AVGN
AVGN: "BEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEEEEEN BAWWWWWWWWMBER!"
I hope they paid Chuck Yeager for the use of his voice. 😂
I'm 33, and wanting to try this, opposed to getting a headset & corresponding Baby Hands VR app for my Smartphone, and *STILL* waiting for the daydream I have - where my "Mother" finally hears *MY* story & gets reprimanded at long last - to come true!!!!
Knock off the distant targets first.Later levels make anything other than ‘milk runs’ near impossible.