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Intellivision 25-In-1 TV Game Debuts

Posted by simoniker on from the collection-of-joysticks-now-collection-of-consoles dept.

Thanks to the Gaming-Age forum regulars for pointing to an MCV UK article showing a forthcoming Intellivision-licensed 'TV game', similar in style to the 10-in-1 Atari joystick we covered a few months back. This joystick (looking nothing like the original Intellivision controller - will there be problems with a lack of buttons?), will be launching in the UK next month. Choices will include joysticks with both 10-in-1 and 25-in-1 flavors of officially licensed, built-in Intellivision games, and according to the article, "..titles include Star Strike, Night Stalker, Space Armada, Astrosmash, Sub Hunt, Thundercastle and Pinball, amongst others."

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  1. Ahh, sweet memories by sagrotan · · Score: 2, Interesting

    As a once pround owner of an Intellivision back in better times, I remember thinking 'why did I not get a Atari 2600 like anybody else' after a while.
    Everybody said it had an edge over the Atari on the tech side. Still, nobody else bought it. I loved the system, but had to envy those VCS 2600 cart swapping folks at school.
    Years later, this reminds me of things like VHS and Video 2000 VCR systems here in Europe.

    Besides, nothing could beat Sub Hunt in my book back then.

    May the better one win...

  2. If you're not familiar with the intellivision by lightspawn · · Score: 4, Informative

    Intellivision Lives has the entire history of the console, official CDs with the roms and bundled PC/Mac emulators, and several games available for free download. The site is maintained by some of the original Intellivision developers.

  3. Re:Intellivision Control by bjb · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I don't know why so many people hated that controller. Yes, it was worse than the other ones out during the time, but it worked rather well for what Intellivision was best for: sports games.

    Yes, there were plenty of other good games out for intellivision (night stalker, astrosmash, AD&D, Tron series, talkies, etc) but if you were to compare the big three back then (Atari 2600, ColecoVision and Intellivision), the Intellivision was definately the best for sports games. I still love their baseball and football, as simple as they are.

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    Never hit your grandmother with a shovel, for it leaves a bad impression on her mind...
  4. old systems new software? by zaphodgjd · · Score: 2, Interesting

    It would be interesting to see a unit like this come with some simple card reader (similar to the GBA eCard reader) so that new games could be written for the platform. I mean, at $20 people will buy it. Downloads would be printed and scanned in. I realize this is mostly a geek thing, but the interest to me is that this is a very small and constrained system and that by itself makes it interesting to program for.