Intellivision Lives With Classic Console Compilation

Posted by simoniker on Friday November 28, 2003 @02:53AM from the as-written-by-kevin-smith dept.

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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ColecoVision by molafson · 2003-11-28 04:34 · Score: 3, Interesting

The "Atari 2600's most successful rival" was clearly ColecoVision. For those of us old enough to remember, Coleco was the bomb with near-perfect (or so it seemed) arcade ports of Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Burger Time, Q*Bert, etc.

Also, Coleco had the Turbo game pack with steering wheel controller and gas pedal. That thing was possibly the best present my parents ever bought me.

Oh, and Coleco had an expansion port on the side into which you could plug a peripheral that allowed you to play Atari carts.