Intellivision 25-In-1 TV Game Debuts

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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If you're not familiar with the intellivision

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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.

Re:Intellivision Control

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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.