Yep, I was an Atari kid, the boy down the road had one of these. I remember they had some negative commercials saying this was better than the Atari, but I always thought the controller was strange on the intelivison and preferred my Atari. Of course this was until 1982-83 when my cousin got a colecovision.
lol .I love how the guy talking talks aout how realistic the intellivision is while at the same, there is a baseball game on the screen with a score of 44-7.
I still remember how much of a rip off the games cost. Most were $50 and up and sometimes costing $100 bucks. There was no way to try them out and you were stuck with them even if they they sucked ass. Still a great time.
You are comparing a system way ahead of its time that came out in the late 70s with the NES, which came out 7 years after, toward the end of INTV's run. They are in 2 different generations. NES has better graphics, but it was a while before they had any games as complex as some of the INTV lineup. There were a lot of INTV games that did play differently each time. Sims like Utopia was different every time. Treasure of Tarmin was very different each time played.
I know Nuke isn't comparing the Intellivision console which was created in the late '70s to the NES which came out a decade later. That's like comparing the Commodore Vic-20 to a newly built laptop.
@fawdown Actually, early NES games WEREN'T all that much more complex than Intellivisions. It wasn't until later with the development of more sophisticated mappers and more memory for the NES that it really started to look like the next-gen system it was. Compare Kung Fu on the Atari to Kung Fu on the NES. The NES is obviously better, but the gap isn't quite as pronounced as with later NES titles like Super Mario Bros 3 or Shatterhand.
@TheTurnipKing I didn't really get into NES right away. It was my brother that had it. I didn't play it at all until Zelda. I was still on my INTV as primary until almost 1990 (I still have it, and have repaired it a number of times). I know they enhance abilities when they get a better understanding of the machine. Things evolve when they learn to tap into it more. It may or may not be intentional. It could be a way to ensure more life out of it when it starts to flatten out.
"A lot more fun and a bigger challenge" compared to every game system that doesn't use a telephone for a controller. "Before you buy any other video game system, be sure. Play Intellivision first." Too late. The other system with a telephone for a controller looks WAY better... along with the NES. "So intelligent, no game plays the same way twice." Unless all Intellivision games use highly sophisticated randomizers... LIES!!!
If it wasn't for these 80's systems today's systems wouldn't be what they are. These 80's systems are the foundation for the Sega Genesis,PlayStations and Xboxes etc.
Honestly alot of people still play these old 80's systems. They are still fun to play sometimes. I actually have a Colecovision that I sometimes bring out and play.
![Intellivision commercial [1983]](/img/logo.svg){kind=logo}
