Intellivision Lives With Classic Console Compilation

Thanks to 1UP for their review of Intellivision Lives! for Xbox, as "the Atari 2600's most successful rival" in the U.S. gets its own retro compilation, also released for PlayStation 2. The review appreciates the "well-crafted collection" encompassing "roughly sixty games for a wallet-friendly $20", and savors the way "the games are presented via arcade machines within an amusingly kitschy virtual '80s pizza parlor." Although it has some issues with the in-game controls, since "...the Intellivision had intricate controllers featuring a numeric keypad", the piece concludes by noting that "...fans of the system should have no reservations about picking up a copy." We've also previously covered the Intellivision stand-alone 'TV games', as featured on the official Intellivision site.

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[mgkimsal2]

Atari and Intellivision had been going for a few years before Coleco got in the game. I believe Adventure for Atari VCS was out in 1978.

http://www.atariage.com/2600/history.html
has a bit more.

Also more
on Intellivision. Out in 1980, so Atari had 2+ years as the king, then about 2 years of sharing with Intellivision, then Coleco hit.
Atari VCS was out in 1977. Coleco entered the market in 1982.

BTW, I wish people would call it the Atari VCS, which is what it originally was. It wasn't referred to as a '2600' untill there was a '5200' to upgrade to.