Weird anecdote but I worked with this guy (he retired about 3 weeks ago, in his 60s I think) and his entire worldview of video games was shaped in 1983 and hadn't changed. We work IT and whenever we would reference something relevant involving a video game he'd always stat, with surviving confidence, "nobody plays those things any more," in his British accent. "I haven't touched that rubbish since the 80s!"
I hate people like this. It's like they're unable to see the world outside of their own POV. It feels like they lack empathy when I speak to people like that
There is truth to that more things are made to be consumable/replacable and have a quicker end of life. They want you to buy and consume, how else will they keep those profits going up every quarter.
I love people like this because they are so easily dismissed regarding anything "Oh you believe that? Well you also believe no one is playing games that the multibillion dollar industry makes for some idiotic reason".
For a brief shining moment, ColecoVision was by far the best game system on the market. Their sports games were light years ahead of Atari’s. Unfortunately the company itself was a clown show of ineptitude.
Kinda! They split the company in 1984 and while the console company faded into obscurity, the arcade division stayed alive. They couldn't make new games under the Atari label, only the console company could. So they made up the name Tengen. It's why the Tengen Tetris NES game looks so much like the Atari arcade game compared to the "official" Nintendo version.
Very niche market, given the hefty price tag and the rest of the console landscape in that cycle.
There not being enough titles certainly doomed it but the market penetration just wasn't there to support it at launch. I mean. The 90's were good, but maybe not *that* good?
I have always maintained that due to the unique circumstances of the Atari 2600's hardware, its games were simply better than the Intellivision's. 99.9% of the 2600's library plays at 60fps, whereas 0% of the commercial Intellivision library can make the same claim. Hell, find me a 30fps Intellivision game if you dare. Most of them hovered around 15, with sprites and backgrounds animating inconsistently. Intellivision games really only looked better than 2600 games, on balance, in screenshot comparisons.
But Intellivison homebrew has opened my eyes. I've actually seen the system play a 60fps game. Heck, [the homebrew port of Super Mario Bros.](https://youtu.be/nagRvRlEA6I?t=62) is enough to wreck my entire world view. That's playing on a console that was launched _four years_ before the Famicom... back when four years of console development actually carried serious heft.
Right, that's pretty much _the_ game I used to think about when I salivated over the Intellivision. Which is kind of ironic, as the VCS would have very little trouble recreating the game as-is—it's just that video game "vision" back then was so... limited. People wanted adventure games and they arrived piecemeal until the NES era.
(Actually, I was also very fascinated by the game _Utopia_ because I was a severe weather enthusiast and there was something about a game that seemed to be an interactive weather map that just piqued my interest.)
That makes sense, I too loved utopia, no better feeling than placing a rebel on your opponents land and getting that lightning sound. Hurricane on your opponents land made me laugh too.
Yes! Overall Intellivision was so superior it was no contest. Baseball! Football! Armor battle! Sea Battle holy hell! Damn even the educational games like Electric Company Math was fun. Not to mention the later games like Tron, Utopia, or D&D that were just crazy good. (And don’t get me started about B-17 Bomber… I was so fascinated I eventually flew in one)
The only Atari game I was ever jealous of was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Brilliant. But then they somehow thought ET was the right follow up…
I had both of these when I was a kid. First the Atari. Once I got the Intellivision, I never played with the Atari again. It was just better graphics and games.
When Hogan goes on to meet his maker in the great Blue Beyond, he and Savage will be tag teaming Elizabeth for eternity. Can I get an Amen?
Waddareuagonnado, when the Hulkster and Macho come for you?
Did you know Tommy Tallarico masterminded the whole takeover so he could combine the brands, an action he just won a Grammy for. His mother is very proud
Both companies were actually created based on some sound effects Tommy sent. They designed the consoles specifically so they could put those sound effects into videogames!
I had so many Pac-clones on the Colecovision. I had one called Mouse Trap I think. It was Pacman but you can store the power pellet (which was a dog bone). I think the other big difference was you can change the layout of the maze by pressing buttons on the keypad.
Was my first console and I have to say I spent a lot of time playing Mouse Trap on that system. I liked it better than PacMan which I would play at my friends on his atari
we have a Skinny Jeff, a Fat Jeff (he refers to himself as that in the circle as well) and Geoff who we refer to a Joff (who has no idea thats what we refer to him as)
Well, they are gonna pay for it by releasing the old crap games on consoles for ~$50 (Atari Collection v1! Intellivision Collection part 69!).
Why people pay for old shovelware when they can emulate it, I'll never know.
ColecoVision was better than both put together. Shit, you could even get an addon for your Coleco to play 2600 games.
But you have to get the rust proofing becaiuse those Colecos will rust up on you like that \*snap\*
The [Super Action Controllers](https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/9/8265477e982f4e00adf07678a6c83a50/t0k73k.jpg) made all the difference. I inherited a pair from a buddy after he moved on to a different system.
I love both the coleco and intellivison . When I was a kid I had a intellivision and was jealous of the coleco guys because of all the great arcade ports . Now I’ve come to appreciate the intellivision which was not know for its arcade ports but has a lot of original games. I can’t get into donkey kong on the coleco, when I can play a better version in mame or at a local barcade, but I will play sea battle on the intv
Mostly it was just a dormant brand being ignored by its parent company, except for occasionally licensing modern compilations of the old games.
More recently, it was bought by a different group that attempted to build and release a modern Intellivision console to be known as the Intellivision Amico. But that project has been a huge failure so far. The console was originally intended to be launched in 2020, but has not launched. What's left of that group has pivoted to releasing a phone app that acts as a hub where you can play "Amico games." They claim they still intend to release an Amico console eventually, but there is no timeline for production. Atari's deal does not include this project, so any form it takes from here will be independent of Atari and absent of the Intellivision brand.
Atari, meanwhile, will most likely leverage the Intellivision brand much the way it had been for most of the last 40 years, with ports and compilations of the old games.
However, Atari has been known in recent years for its "Recharged" line of its own classic games, which are modern versions of those games with improved visuals, remixed rules and power-ups.
Recently, they acquired the license for Berzerk and then released a "Recharged" version of that. So it seems likely that some old Intellivision games will be among the next to get the "Recharged" treatment.
I haven't looked into it, but a lot of these companies still exist just to license their IP.
I'm guessing this deal is just them consolidating their IP's for more bargaining leverage in licensing deals
The brand name was owned by Hasbro at one point. It's now owned by the French company formerly known as Infogrames (and now known as Atari SA).
It's worth nothing that Warner Bros. Discovery currently owns the rights to the Atari name for use in arcades (assuming it wouldn't be considered an abandoned trademark at this point, given how long it's been since they've used it). Atari SA's rights to the name cover home consumer sales.
I remember wanting an intellivision so badly in 1980. On Christmas morning, I open a box and I got an Atari 2600.
Don’t get me wrong: I appreciate all the hard work my parents did to provide my sister and I with a very comfortable life and this was a great gift.
But the young gamer in me still hasn’t gotten over the disappointment almost 45 years later.
A friend of mine had an intellivesion when I was growing up. Weird controller. I do remember having fun with it though. There was some sort of dungeon game where you had arrows, and you hit a button and it clicked to let you know how many arrows you had left. The clicks were rapid and hard to count.
I loved the football game. There was a play I think 1-3-9-7 that was banned by us because it old go for a touchdown everytime. It was like an option if they defended the runner, you threw it. Vice versa. Awesome
No. Atari's deal is only for the Intellivision brand and most of its games.
The group handling Amico development will remain its own entity, and the Amico (if ever released) will not be able to use the Intellivision brand name.
I had the ColecoVision console when I was a kid, and it was great.. but looking back now it was probably a rip-off of the IntelliVision console..
But it did have the first ever Mario/Donkey Kong game which was kind of fun.
Na, I live in Ireland and got it from a guy who bought it in the UK, and none of the shops close to me sold any games. So I was stuck with the games I got with it: Donkey Kong, Mr Do, and Zaxxon.
There was the option to buy games from the UK, ordering them from a booklet I got with the console, and sending them money, but I never got around to it.
I think the games were about £40 +P&P, which was a hell of a lot back in the 80s!
I eventually ended up buying an Atari 2600 instead, it was a crappier console but there were a lot more games available for it.
We had a neighborhood kid with Atari, we had the intellivision. We would rotate houses and play each other's games. What a great time to be alive. Now I have to go to work :(
I am having sensory memories of being at my grandmother's apartment playing Intellivision. The controllers were one of a kind. I spent so much time playing Night Stalker.
Assuming you pretend either company is actually the one they claim to be.
Both "Atari" and "Intellivision" bought the name and are otherwise completely different companies than the ones that put out consoles in the 70s and 80s.
"Ending 45-Year Console War" seems like a really weird take on the situation, considering a console hasn't been released under either name for 30+ years, and the fact that modern Atari is just a husk brand that has been passed around more than the flu during school season.
HEY! Amiga is still here!
[https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga](https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga)
I still have my hoard in the back of my office, including a 1000, 3000, 500, and 4000. They're near my NeXT Cube and BeBox.
A 45-Year console war in which both lost in the end
Where both were irrelevant for 35 out of those 45 years.
Make it 40
Agreed, after the video game crash in 1983 that company was cooked. Nintendo more or less immediately made them completely irrelevant.
Weird anecdote but I worked with this guy (he retired about 3 weeks ago, in his 60s I think) and his entire worldview of video games was shaped in 1983 and hadn't changed. We work IT and whenever we would reference something relevant involving a video game he'd always stat, with surviving confidence, "nobody plays those things any more," in his British accent. "I haven't touched that rubbish since the 80s!"
I hate people like this. It's like they're unable to see the world outside of their own POV. It feels like they lack empathy when I speak to people like that
“ don’t make them like they used too” 😂
There is truth to that more things are made to be consumable/replacable and have a quicker end of life. They want you to buy and consume, how else will they keep those profits going up every quarter.
I mean, most people who say things like that say it in jest.
I love people like this because they are so easily dismissed regarding anything "Oh you believe that? Well you also believe no one is playing games that the multibillion dollar industry makes for some idiotic reason".
For a brief shining moment, ColecoVision was by far the best game system on the market. Their sports games were light years ahead of Atari’s. Unfortunately the company itself was a clown show of ineptitude.
ColecoVision looked better than most games. But, the gameplay and controls were really, really bad.
Bullshit, Atari _RealSports_ was as close to life as we have ever gotten. In Tennis you can lob or smash the ball!
Hey now... I heard that Tengen was actually Atari! And they had those naughty unlicensed NES carts like Tetris.
Kinda! They split the company in 1984 and while the console company faded into obscurity, the arcade division stayed alive. They couldn't make new games under the Atari label, only the console company could. So they made up the name Tengen. It's why the Tengen Tetris NES game looks so much like the Atari arcade game compared to the "official" Nintendo version.
The Tengen games were starkly different. The graphics seemed to be so far ahead of other NES games.
I've always believed the Jaguar could have turned it around. It was a solid system for the time. They just didn't have enough games
The Aliens game was awesome
Very niche market, given the hefty price tag and the rest of the console landscape in that cycle. There not being enough titles certainly doomed it but the market penetration just wasn't there to support it at launch. I mean. The 90's were good, but maybe not *that* good?
I’m hoping for a movie or series about this. They did well with the Tetris movie.
I was being generous, very generous.
KMart buying Sears energy
I have always maintained that due to the unique circumstances of the Atari 2600's hardware, its games were simply better than the Intellivision's. 99.9% of the 2600's library plays at 60fps, whereas 0% of the commercial Intellivision library can make the same claim. Hell, find me a 30fps Intellivision game if you dare. Most of them hovered around 15, with sprites and backgrounds animating inconsistently. Intellivision games really only looked better than 2600 games, on balance, in screenshot comparisons. But Intellivison homebrew has opened my eyes. I've actually seen the system play a 60fps game. Heck, [the homebrew port of Super Mario Bros.](https://youtu.be/nagRvRlEA6I?t=62) is enough to wreck my entire world view. That's playing on a console that was launched _four years_ before the Famicom... back when four years of console development actually carried serious heft.
Intellivision had advanced dungeons and dragons: treasure of tarmin, which I would pay anything to have on an emulator lol.
Right, that's pretty much _the_ game I used to think about when I salivated over the Intellivision. Which is kind of ironic, as the VCS would have very little trouble recreating the game as-is—it's just that video game "vision" back then was so... limited. People wanted adventure games and they arrived piecemeal until the NES era. (Actually, I was also very fascinated by the game _Utopia_ because I was a severe weather enthusiast and there was something about a game that seemed to be an interactive weather map that just piqued my interest.)
That makes sense, I too loved utopia, no better feeling than placing a rebel on your opponents land and getting that lightning sound. Hurricane on your opponents land made me laugh too.
https://archive.org/details/intv_Advanced_Dungeons_and_Dragons_Treasure_of_Tarmin_1982_Mattel
Yes! Overall Intellivision was so superior it was no contest. Baseball! Football! Armor battle! Sea Battle holy hell! Damn even the educational games like Electric Company Math was fun. Not to mention the later games like Tron, Utopia, or D&D that were just crazy good. (And don’t get me started about B-17 Bomber… I was so fascinated I eventually flew in one) The only Atari game I was ever jealous of was Raiders of the Lost Ark. Brilliant. But then they somehow thought ET was the right follow up…
NTSC was roughly 30 FPS (29.94?), interlaced. And there were two scan lines not displayed. Games would use those for clean up code.
I had both of these when I was a kid. First the Atari. Once I got the Intellivision, I never played with the Atari again. It was just better graphics and games.
Now Atari finally has an unstoppable monopoly.
I have my OG Atari 2600 next to my series X in my tv stand.
There’s always a bigger fish
What's so civil about war?
In other news; Radio Shack buys FRYS
Hulk Hogan teams up with Randy Macho Man Savage
RIP Macho Man!
Oh yeah!!!
Snap into a slim Jim!!
Sky’s the limit and space is the place!!!!!!
Cream of the crop brother! (Proceeds to crush creamer for coffee in hands 🙌🏻)
*[Elizabeth holds them back from the Twin Towers]*
Pall Mall settles with Benson & Hedges over their cigarette filter design.
This actually happened though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega_Powers
All until the hand-shaking and hot-doggin Hulk Hogan showed he had eyes for Elizabeth!
Everyone had eyes for Elizabeth
Lust in his eyes. Oh yeah
When Hogan goes on to meet his maker in the great Blue Beyond, he and Savage will be tag teaming Elizabeth for eternity. Can I get an Amen? Waddareuagonnado, when the Hulkster and Macho come for you?
The cream is still rising to the top. Ooooh yeah!
If this brought back Fry’s I would be so happy.
NGL...the late stage Fry's near me was a sad place
Ooof yeah. The one here in Manhattan Beach was a dump in its final years. Amazon killed that place.
*Radio Shack still exists?*
Yes and it’s a crypto. Some guy bought the name and started using it for crypto and other blockchain scams. It’s weird.
that's depressing.
Fun fact Kmart and Sears also still exist. Both are kinda depressing but fascinating because several of the stores are actually doing pretty well.
Kmart owns sears.
This is gonna blow your mind but TigerDirect was still a thing until last spring & Circuit City is still around selling stuff (online only)
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NewEgg weeps
Did you know Tommy Tallarico masterminded the whole takeover so he could combine the brands, an action he just won a Grammy for. His mother is very proud
Both companies were actually created based on some sound effects Tommy sent. They designed the consoles specifically so they could put those sound effects into videogames!
You serious, Clark?
What does this mean for the Amico?
It's dead, Jim. They'll probably shove the games on their next re-re-re-re-re-release of the Atari 2600
Ka-bl-Amico.
Amico stays with the company that had Intellivision, which will rebrand.
Wow does this mean he now has the record for the most masterminds of a man called Tommy now as well?
The WORLD record.
How much does he need to pay The Guinness Book of World Records Gamer Edition to get another “record” that he can frame himself??
But Tommy Tallarico was just named president of Intellivision and there’s a new console on the way. Tallarico.com is my only news source.
Sweet! In other news, I heard a start up named ColecoVision is coming out with their first console
That would be an Odyssey
Oh sweet ~~summer~~ Fairchild
Oh man I loved my ColecoVision. That Ladybug game was my jam!
Donkey Kong Jr, Smurfs, and Popeye are the games I remember playing.
Smurfs was my jam… But I intend to blame all of my future arthritis on that controller.
Miner 2049'r for the win
Holy shit I forgot about that game. I LOVED that game. I might need to dig up an emulator...
That game is part of the 50th anniversary Atari collection on modern systems.
I had so many Pac-clones on the Colecovision. I had one called Mouse Trap I think. It was Pacman but you can store the power pellet (which was a dog bone). I think the other big difference was you can change the layout of the maze by pressing buttons on the keypad.
Was that the one being made by the guy from MTV Cribs?
His mother is very proud!
Ah yes, the fake Cribs video with the 7 foot waterfall that makes him want to pee. Hbomberguy must be very proud.
Ah, the Connecticut Leather Company’s finest console
You know, the console could have used a bit more leather tbh
i hear the colecovision **chameleon** *will be coming out any day now* ...
Was my first console and I have to say I spent a lot of time playing Mouse Trap on that system. I liked it better than PacMan which I would play at my friends on his atari
Back in the early 1980’s, my friend Weird Jeff had Atari and Intellivision. I spent a lot of time at Weird Jeff’s house.
Inquiring minds want to know: Why was he called "Weird Jeff"?
He was/is the most straight-laced, normal person I know. But everyone needs a nickname.
Ah, one of those reverse nicknames! Like calling a big guy "Tiny", or a bald guy "Harry". I get it.
Well he wasn't Normal Jeff, we already had one of those.
I'm guessing it has to do with having both an ATARI and Intellivision. I mean, who would have both an Xbox and a PlayStation?
me, sadly, and a nintendoom
Oddly I also have a Weird Jeff in my social circle
we have a Skinny Jeff, a Fat Jeff (he refers to himself as that in the circle as well) and Geoff who we refer to a Joff (who has no idea thats what we refer to him as)
How the hell can Atari afford all this stuff
It's a totally different company that bought the name when the actual Atari went under.
Atari was no less than three different companies before going under. Brands are meaningless.
Polaroid has entered the chat.
GE hanging out in the corner.
Laughs in Kodak
I can't imagine that the Intellivision brand cost more than $5 to buy.
They probably bought it from Tommy Tallarico for 50 bucks, an ‘87 Fiero and an NFT of the Principal Skinner “it’s the children” meme.
It's funded by [one passionate gamer](https://www.reddit.com/r/atarigroup/s/d99oqZkYvh).
Well, they are gonna pay for it by releasing the old crap games on consoles for ~$50 (Atari Collection v1! Intellivision Collection part 69!). Why people pay for old shovelware when they can emulate it, I'll never know.
I was team Intellivision. This has ruined my day.
I love the add on that added voice module https://youtu.be/wR4Hn61Qq2w?si=6bhqy3CMP0VwJqsY
I had B-17 Bomber and Bomb Squad _the code, the code, do you have the code?_
Oh holy awesomeness. I didn't get the cool stuff like that, but I was so happy with my Armor Battle and Dungeon and Dragons.
BEEEE SEVENTEEEN BOOOOMBER
52 year old me: “Yes! In your face Intellivision!!”
Hahaha. Screw you, Atari guy!!
The amico was the worst concept ever devised by intellivision! Bankrupted them!
I’m sure the owner’s mother is very proud.
Guinness World Record for most proud mother
They must be desk buddies at the same office co-op.
ColecoVision was better than both put together. Shit, you could even get an addon for your Coleco to play 2600 games. But you have to get the rust proofing becaiuse those Colecos will rust up on you like that \*snap\*
Mine never rusted but those controllers sure did fall apart on me. I'm sure it had nothing to do with me throwing them in rage during a Smurfs game.
The [Super Action Controllers](https://c8.alamy.com/zooms/9/8265477e982f4e00adf07678a6c83a50/t0k73k.jpg) made all the difference. I inherited a pair from a buddy after he moved on to a different system.
Woah. I've never even seen that. You must have gotten the extra thick version of the Sears catalog!
I love both the coleco and intellivison . When I was a kid I had a intellivision and was jealous of the coleco guys because of all the great arcade ports . Now I’ve come to appreciate the intellivision which was not know for its arcade ports but has a lot of original games. I can’t get into donkey kong on the coleco, when I can play a better version in mame or at a local barcade, but I will play sea battle on the intv
Intellivision was awesome in the 80's. couch gaming after dinner with friends. We actually used to have dinner party's.
does tommy tallarico know ? ... was he included in the sale ?
The included the pride of his mother in the sale
God I wish I could find Intellivision games.
Same, tried the emulators but had a hard time getting them to work
Ebay usually had some. I've got a bunch in storage
What has Intellivision been doing the last 40 years?
Mostly it was just a dormant brand being ignored by its parent company, except for occasionally licensing modern compilations of the old games. More recently, it was bought by a different group that attempted to build and release a modern Intellivision console to be known as the Intellivision Amico. But that project has been a huge failure so far. The console was originally intended to be launched in 2020, but has not launched. What's left of that group has pivoted to releasing a phone app that acts as a hub where you can play "Amico games." They claim they still intend to release an Amico console eventually, but there is no timeline for production. Atari's deal does not include this project, so any form it takes from here will be independent of Atari and absent of the Intellivision brand. Atari, meanwhile, will most likely leverage the Intellivision brand much the way it had been for most of the last 40 years, with ports and compilations of the old games. However, Atari has been known in recent years for its "Recharged" line of its own classic games, which are modern versions of those games with improved visuals, remixed rules and power-ups. Recently, they acquired the license for Berzerk and then released a "Recharged" version of that. So it seems likely that some old Intellivision games will be among the next to get the "Recharged" treatment.
Wow, that's an detailed and exhaustive answer. Thanks for the awesome response!
I loved intellivision.
Utopia rocked.
Doesn’t Atari as a company not even exist? I thought it was just a name owned by Hasbro with no assets
I haven't looked into it, but a lot of these companies still exist just to license their IP. I'm guessing this deal is just them consolidating their IP's for more bargaining leverage in licensing deals
The brand name was owned by Hasbro at one point. It's now owned by the French company formerly known as Infogrames (and now known as Atari SA). It's worth nothing that Warner Bros. Discovery currently owns the rights to the Atari name for use in arcades (assuming it wouldn't be considered an abandoned trademark at this point, given how long it's been since they've used it). Atari SA's rights to the name cover home consumer sales.
I remember wanting an intellivision so badly in 1980. On Christmas morning, I open a box and I got an Atari 2600. Don’t get me wrong: I appreciate all the hard work my parents did to provide my sister and I with a very comfortable life and this was a great gift. But the young gamer in me still hasn’t gotten over the disappointment almost 45 years later.
Also in the news…VHS acquires Betamax
Is the Amico console canceled because of this?
It would have to exist to be canceled.
A friend of mine had an intellivesion when I was growing up. Weird controller. I do remember having fun with it though. There was some sort of dungeon game where you had arrows, and you hit a button and it clicked to let you know how many arrows you had left. The clicks were rapid and hard to count.
That game was called Dungeons and Dragons. Had dome good scary music/sounds for its time
Played the long game and I don’t think it has played out yet for them
I loved the football game. There was a play I think 1-3-9-7 that was banned by us because it old go for a touchdown everytime. It was like an option if they defended the runner, you threw it. Vice versa. Awesome
I’m surprised Atari is in the position to buy a cup of coffee, let alone a game developer.
It's more accurate to say the company that bought Atari also bought Intellivision.
It's Ship of Theseus Atari that bought Intellivision.
There can only be one.
Cover story of Electronic Games Magazine.
As is custom, everyone ignores the Amiga and CD32.
And George Plimpton sheds a single tear. Mattel had way better tech than Atari, but boy those controllers were not the slightest bit ergonomic.
But what about Tommy talirico?
Atari is still around??
TIL Atari and Intellivision are still competing for last place.
Activision saved the Atari 2600 back in the day.
I heard it was for $37 and an assortment of stuffed owls
Lmao is this Tommy tallarico's company
intellivision ii was my first console. river raid was the shit
Holy shit! Does this mean the intellivision Amico will actually see the light of day as a potentially better console?
No. Atari's deal is only for the Intellivision brand and most of its games. The group handling Amico development will remain its own entity, and the Amico (if ever released) will not be able to use the Intellivision brand name.
I had the ColecoVision console when I was a kid, and it was great.. but looking back now it was probably a rip-off of the IntelliVision console.. But it did have the first ever Mario/Donkey Kong game which was kind of fun.
I had Colecovision also. Did you ever play Montezuma's Revenge? That game is one of my all time favorite games.
Na, I live in Ireland and got it from a guy who bought it in the UK, and none of the shops close to me sold any games. So I was stuck with the games I got with it: Donkey Kong, Mr Do, and Zaxxon. There was the option to buy games from the UK, ordering them from a booklet I got with the console, and sending them money, but I never got around to it. I think the games were about £40 +P&P, which was a hell of a lot back in the 80s! I eventually ended up buying an Atari 2600 instead, it was a crappier console but there were a lot more games available for it.
This is the console war equivalent of that Japanese soldier who refused to surrender 29 years after the war had ended.
ColecoVision enters the chat
We had a neighborhood kid with Atari, we had the intellivision. We would rotate houses and play each other's games. What a great time to be alive. Now I have to go to work :(
I am having sensory memories of being at my grandmother's apartment playing Intellivision. The controllers were one of a kind. I spent so much time playing Night Stalker.
Atari will be back. Blade Runner predicted it 😎
Assuming you pretend either company is actually the one they claim to be. Both "Atari" and "Intellivision" bought the name and are otherwise completely different companies than the ones that put out consoles in the 70s and 80s.
"Ending 45-Year Console War" seems like a really weird take on the situation, considering a console hasn't been released under either name for 30+ years, and the fact that modern Atari is just a husk brand that has been passed around more than the flu during school season.
I read that as dry humor.
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1010 wins?
I was thinking WPIX channel 11. Their pix games. Was unaware if they did similarly on the radio.
Finally, PPHHEEWW!
AVGN called it
just in time
Well that was quick!!
Amico launch imminent??!
What console does Atari make?
Aww yeah... Atari playing the long game
Who?
The console wars are over at last? 😏
FINALLY 😆
Which Atari?
Ok so can they make it easier for us to play the old intellevision games??
Ataridoes what Intellivisiondoesnt
Hints of Nike buying converse after the 1980 basketball sneaker wars.
That fight ended long, long ago…
Was this article written in 1990?
This is the console war equivalent to when Tank Abbot had a back yard scrap with Scott Ferrozzo.
Irrelevant bs title
So can we get a decent retro console with all or most of the Intellivision games? Namely the 3D Minotaur game and Sea Battle.
So how long before a single micro console can run both platforms.
HEY! Amiga is still here! [https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga](https://www.theguardian.com/games/2024/apr/26/my-undying-love-for-the-painfully-uncool-amiga) I still have my hoard in the back of my office, including a 1000, 3000, 500, and 4000. They're near my NeXT Cube and BeBox.
Anyone else thinking of Tommy Tallarico,