Las Vegas Roulette, PGA Golf, Tennis, Skiing: Intellivision Archive Episode 5 

It's really cool to see the contrast between the Atari and the Intellivision on this channel!

Day after my birthday but I'm celebrating today. This is one of my favorite channels

The name Walter Bright made my ears perk up. He was the designer of the old mainframe game Empire: Wargame of the Century in 1977. He credits 3 other people, two of which worked at Mattel as well (Mark Stroberg and David Rolfe), Sid Meier credits Empire as a major influence for Civilization. He also created the D programming language, several C++ compilers, did software work on the Boeing 757, plus several other games. The guy is amazing and is still at it. Wow.

Another great episode; this is the most informative video ever made on any of these games by a mile.

excellent episode

Well. Mattel finishes 1980 well enough, although a few of the sports games get overshadowed by Activision. Interestingly enough, this video was posted the same day as a debate in which Presidential candidates are arguing about their golf games. Anyway, PGA Golf is still a winner.

Stellar work as always, just recently got the Atari Archive Vol 1 book and loving it all!!

Another great episode from this subseries!

Tempted to try and write a sophisticated skiing game on the Atari 8-bit, with Sega Genesis controller support so one button could be used for tighter turns. (Also makes me want to go play some Twisted Metal)

I believe the original odyssey had a roulette game.

Sports games were supposed to be the thing for Intellivision, or at least its first ad campaign made it seem so. So it's surprising that they didn't have one-player options! I used to be really envious, but seeing some of the games for Intellivision, I know now that I had a better entertainment experience with the Atari VCS/2600. It was odd though that they thought licensing was the key to making their sports games more popular. How many more sales do they think they made by calling it "U.S. Ski Team Skiing" than just "Skiing?" I still wonder though if Mattel had realized they could sell versions of their games for the Atari in 1981 they could have beaten the game glut of 1982 and M-Network might have had some best-sellers? Also, what if Mattel had licensed the must-have game Space Invaders for their systems launch, like Coleco would do for Donkey Kong? Maybe their system would have sold and Atari would have rushed out a better system sooner? Finally, some of these winter sports don't look too exciting. But I remember trying to play Winter Olympics on some system (PC?). I think you have to do multiple events and while each event isn't that great, trying to master them all was the challenge!