Intellivision Lives: Tommy Tallarico Will Relaunch 1980s Console (venturebeat.com)

craters writes: A wave of nostalgia has hit gamers, with Nintendo and Atari taking advantage with launches, both recent and pending, of older game consoles. Now they'll have a new competitor with Intellivision Entertainment. Originally released in 1980, the Intellivision console and its successors sold millions of units over three decades. The new Intellivision system (name TBA) will carry on the company tradition of "firsts" with its new concept, design and approach to gaming. The original Intellivision system generated many "firsts" in the video game industry including the first 16-bit gaming machine, the first gaming console to offer digital distribution, the first to bring speech/voice to games, the first to license professional sports leagues and organizations and the first to be a dedicated game console and home computer.

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Re:Nostolgia is a bad thing.

[Anonymous Coward]

Suicide can be painless, you know.

Re:Nostolgia is a bad thing.

[Anonymous Coward]

I can see the reasoning behind the NES and SNES Classics: appeal to the folks who played them when they were kids and are, today, probably around 30; old enough to appreciate the nostalgia, young enough to have the cash and interest in plugging in yet another console.

The kids who would have enjoyed the Intellivision (and Atari) during its hey-day would be in their late-40s/early-50s by now, though: old enough to remember how fun they were when there was nothing better, but old enough to not be stupid enough to think that that means they'd stand up to more than 5-10 minutes of play before realizing what crap they are compared to even ancient consoles from the early '90s, never mind anything that could be had today.

If somebody really wants to do a retro-console from the Intellivision era, they should try the ColecoVision. It was late on the scene, but it kicked Atari's and Intellivision's butts. It probably still wouldn't do well as a retro-console, but it'd probably do better than an Intellivision.

Want to see a really cool console?

[NormalVisual]

Bring back the Vectrex. Mine still works just fine (as does my 2600), and there was *nothing* like it in the home gaming scene, before or since. It'd be horribly expensive to produce now, but I think the vector graphics would interest some folks that find the 2600, Intellivision, etc. rather pedestrian, particularly if they could offer higher resolution and a color CRT with games that could take advantage of it.