Who /Intellivision/ here?

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I got your back op

>>3031101
Me.
D&D games are GOAT.

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>>3031101
colecovision master race here

>>3031101
Holy fuck, I used to have a huge collections of inty games from random farm auction lots my dad bought. Sadly, I lost them all in a move. For some reason, the Intellivision was actually more popular than the Atari VCS in my area.

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>>3031303
I like you.

I a/v modded mine and it looks great on my d20f1u.

>MATTEL PRESENTS
>SPAAACE SPAAARTANS

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Got a pic related from Goodwill for like a dollar

Apparently it's fucking garbage even by plug n play standards

>>3031972
Would you show results?

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>>3031972
>MATTEL ELECTRONICS PRESENTS
>BEEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEEEEEEEEEEN BOWWWWWWMMMMMBERRR

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>>3032750

Noice bruh

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Who /nightstalker/ here?

>dat shielded white robot
>dat invisible robot

>>3032919
Fuq da the robots, dude.

>>3032963
?

I got an intv iii but have nogames. Ebay is way too pricey.

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>>3031882
Advanced Dungeons & Dragons is one of my all-time favorite games.

>>3032919
Night Stalker was also great.

I also loved Utopia, a 2 player game, but only one person would ever play it with me. Most people wanted to play football or baseball or boxing.

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I love this, most played on the Intellivision Lives! anthology
Haven't tried the D&D games, are they that hard to get into via emulation?

Did you guys actually play this as a kid? If so how old are you now? I was watching the Americans and the main characters' ~10yo son keeps asking for one, and that's set in 1982. Are there people in their 40s that post here? Legitimate question

>>3033396
>Are there people in their 40s that post here?
obviously

plus younger people that played stuff that was already old when they were kids

>Find Intellivision in box for $60 at Goodwill
>Fuck your price gouging you fucks
>Buy it anyway
>I don't think I can get into it

>>3033321
>hard to get into
Not sure if you mean the game itself or the process of emulating it, but both are easy.

>>3033396
I am over 50. I bought an Intellivision shortly after release with one of my first paychecks. I wanted an Atari 2600 (a buddy had one and I loved it), but the Intellivision came out so I got that instead.

>>3033542
I can emulate Intellivision, but is the game itself easily playable without control overlays and instructions?
ie without any of the hoodickeys that you would have had playing it the first time had you bought it in '82.

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>Intellivision
My inner child is really jealous of you guys. My early gaming days were /hanimex/ eryday.

>>3032573
>modern gamepad
For what reason?

By the way, if anyone knows, how is Intellivision Flashback? Is it OK to experience games with the like-original pad? Maybe there's a way to connect those pads to PC?

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>>3033682
I always use the overlays on the original controller, even though for AD&D I could probably do without it.

I already had the manual, but instructions (text file) came with the ROMs I downloaded several years ago. I would think you would need instructions for AD&D, even though it's not complicated.

>>3032919
I played Night Stalker yesterday for the first time in 25 years, and I couldn't even break 10k.

I'm gonna play a bit more today, and try to git gud at Space Attack too.

>>3033396
I'm 37, and a Canuck. Some of my cousins had a pair of Intellivision IIs, I got to play them fairly frequently when I was a kid.

Atari 2600s, Intellivisions and Colecovisions were still common in my area until the SNES/Genesis era.

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>>3034140
I also haven't played in many years, so I don't remember if this is really helpful or not.

>>3032734
yeah i'll try to snap a few pics when i get a chance.

>>3033762
>By the way, if anyone knows, how is Intellivision Flashback?
It's not bad, especially for the price, but the menu is awkward and some of games don't emulate all that well. Some of the sound effects and most of the IntelliVoice don't sound right. I believe Tower of Doom is basically not functional, which is a definite shame.
>Is it OK to experience games with the like-original pad?
The pad is pretty good. The disc feels just a little stiff, but the new side buttons are a massive improvement over the originals. They're soft rubber now and are quite responsive. The only real problem I had was with the replica overlays. They're cheaply made and will disintegrate very quickly. You're better off just setting them on a table within view for reference. You could also just keep the instruction booklet open or look up the overlays online and print out copies to keep nearby.
>Maybe there's a way to connect those pads to PC?
I don't know if it's possible, but that would be great.

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>>3034289
Sweet, thanks. I'm going to try focusing on the spider until I hit 5k. Tricking the robot into shooting the bats is pretty satisfying.

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This was in a recent issue of Retro Gamer. No real tips. I thought it was cool they featured it, though.

>>3034541
That robot looks pissed

I like the discs on the controllers, but fuck those impossibly short cords and hard rubber action buttons.

Also, is it just me or did anyone else's Inty get hot after being plugged in for a while, without even being powered on? Same happened with a Tandyvision I owned too.

>>3034503
>I don't know if it's possible, but that would be great.
I think the easiest way would be to write a driver for COM port.

>>3035983
I dunno, the Intellivision Flashback controllers appear to use DE-9 plugs, but they may not be wired in such a way that you can plug them directly into a serial port. In fact, it's more than likely that they're not. What I would do instead is build a little adapter with an Arduino, and connect it to your PC through USB.

>>3035840
I don't remember how hot they got, but my family played so much that we wore out at least three consoles. An original, a Tandy and a II.

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So I did a little CP1610 asm tutorial...

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>>3037998
>gif
I was waiting and nothing happened...

>>3032916

Best INTV game by far. Loved the challenge of that big sentinel thing

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>>3038162

This Tron game always confused me. I never had the manual so I just ran around.

>>3039837
Even with the manual, I found it to be indecipherable.

I feel like Intellivision is pretty much underrated nowadays (like the entire 2nd gen). Is it wrong?

>>3040392
I'm not sure I would call the 2600 underrated, but you could argue the rest are.

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Found this catalog that was sent to me in 1988 - I'm the 50+ dude - by '88 I had not played an Intellivision for several years. In fact by that time I had a Coleco and NES - and my first PC was in '87.

I don't know what version that system is, but $75.70 isn't bad - that's about $150-$155 today. I'm sure I paid over $200 for my first one in '80 or '81. I wish I had bought several and left them in the box.

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Intellivision II is the only Intellivision system I have now - it works fine but I could use at least 1 new controller. $12.95 each in '88 - I wish I had bought 10 of them.

I wonder if that "JOY STICK" was worth a damn. I would like to try that board game.

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I don't think I would have had a use for the keyboard. The boxing game was a huge hit for my crew, especially after we took bong hits.

>>3040643
>it works fine but I could use at least 1 new controller.
If you need them so much, I heard you could use Intellivision Flashback controllers after some wire tweaking.

>>3040674
Yeah, I saw an adapter for sale - I should get one.

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What are the best shooters on the Intellivision? I enjoy Astrosmash and Space Attack, what others should I take a look at?

>>3042440
Space Spartans
>Hello Commander, computer reporting

>>3042440
>Space Attack
Do you mean Space Battle? That was an interesting strategy shooter.

Space Armada was a fun clone of Space Invaders.

The Dreadnaught Factor and Mission X are a couple of great scrolling shooters.

I remember Demon Attack being a lot of fun in an Astrosmash sort of way.

Astrosmash confirmed GOAT

>>3042532
I played Astroblast on my VCS; can I join?

>>3042440
Hover Force is pretty awesome. Quite graphically impressive for an inty game too.

>>3031101
HELL YEAH! i'm new to the actual system not the games i am loving it

>>3042447
>>3042515
>>3043162

Yep, I meant Space Battle (the would-be BSG game. Thank you very kindly for the recs!

>>3043059
Hell yeah. I tried Dark Cavern the other day (the VCS version of Night Stalker) and it kicked my arse badly. Harder than Berzerk or Wizards of Wor, haha

Why are games gor this so expensive? Is there flash carts for this thing?

>>3045529
Are they? My local reseller has some Intellevision games sitting on a clearance rack.

>>3031237
I played that like 5 days ago on intellivision lives for xbox

Jesus, this was the console that git me into gaming. Tron Deadly Disks and Utopia were my favorites.

>>3047274
I loved those so much. Good taste.

>>3031882
How do I git gud there?

>>3050408
Pay careful attention to the clues in each mountain. Each type of bones or droppings means a certain monster is nearby. Each color of mountain has a different treasure guarded by a major monster. Depending on the route you take, you'll need different treasures to get through the map obstacles. Gray mountains just have extra arrows instead of a treasure.

You'll also hear most of the major monsters snoring when you're near them. Just remember that bats and rats will muffle the sounds of more dangerous monsters, and the blue demons don't make any sound at all.

Spiders will steal an arrow whenever they touch you. You'll hear a little tick each time it happens. If you press 0 to count your arrows, the number of ticks you hear is how many you have left. The purple blobs are indestructible, so avoid those completely.

Don't forget to use the side action buttons to run, and practice your arrow ricochet angles. Both of these things can save your life on the harder difficulties.

>>3045529
they aren't, they're sometimes even cheaper than 2600 games, and people give those games away.

>>3033396
You do realize that 4chan is over a decade old?
I'm 23, but I've been using the site since I was 12.
Wouldn't be surprise if people in their mid-20's were using the site from the get-go and are still here.

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>>3051010
>tfw been here since '09

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Was voice a gimmick?

How could you put me in this position?
I really miss my Intellivision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqcENxKxFik

>>3054584
My mother sold mine at a garage sale

>>3031101
Sometimes I feel like Intellivision games complexity over Atari games is charming somehow.
Am I not alone in these thoughts?

>>3054938
Pity.

>>3056614
I totally agree. Intellivision always interested me more for that reason.

friendly bump until i can take some damn pictures

>>3054536
By itself? Sorta. In the context of "Holy shit, my bleep-bloop machine is talking to me!" sense, it goes a long way to enhance the supported games.

>>3056614
Did the Intellivision have some RTS games? Also how cool would it be if Star Craft was ported to the Intellivision?

>>3058315
Utopia was probably the closest thing they had to an RTS. I highly recommend it.

>>3058315
Space Battle is a combined strategy and shooting game, played in real time (unless you go easy mode), but you don't get any control over your fleet composition, just the movement of units.

Sea Battle, on the other hand, is more like a modern RTS, but lacks the base building aspect.

Utopia, as >>3058330 recommends, is very close to a modern RTS. It's gameplay is divided into timed phases, but that more or less just shows the progression of calendar time in the game.

>>3058330
>>3058681
Does anyone play Utopia with more than 30 seconds turns?

>>3031237
I played it recently, and jzintv somehow adds a life a thousand earlier. What's the problem?

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>>3031101
Played the shit out of baseball back in the day.
So many heartbreaking defeats caused by missing the final out by throwing to the wrong base.

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>>3031101
Quote from my late father who knew nothing about video games:
>"Why did we get Atari when the Intellivision >controllers look so much better?"
He made a good point.

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>>3060473
They may look better, but they sure didn't play better. The colecovision controller was a bit of an improvement, but why use that shit when you have a set of these badboys.

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>>3062060
What controller is that?
Please tell me that was not available back in the hay-day of atari/intellivition/colecovision...
I would have killed for that!

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>>3058330
Utopia was ahead of it's time.
A great game if you had friends that could tolerate it.
>A better time, when destructive hurricanes resulted in laughter.

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>>3062237
It's Colecovision Super Action Controller.

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>>3062389
how old are you sport?

>>3063396
Thirty-two.

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>>3063412
Sweet.
1983 master race as well

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>>3035476

>>3066089
Pretty solid picks.

>>3066089
Is it B-17 Bomber in the right bottom corner?

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>>3062237
Yes it was and yes they were rad as fuck at the time. I wish I still had mine. The neighbor girl who used to babysit me when I was a child just up and fucking gave me all of their old atari and colecovision games, systems, and controllers. Some of this shit is hard to find now, like the colecovision steering wheel and of course those badass super action controllers. The only thing I regret more than my marriage is selling that stuff off when I was a teenager.

Damn, looking at the specs, it's a shame the Intellivision got so few titles. I only really knew about Treasure of Tarmin before, but Tower of Doom has tons of depth. I can only imagine what sort of amazing limits the system could have been pushed to given a longer lifespan and some real 3rd party support.

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>>3069678
Me and my friends only knew one kid back in the day with Colecovision and I think the only game he had was Donkey Kong Jr. We pretended to like him so we could come over and play his Coleco...but if he had the super action controller we would not have pretended. We would have treated him like Thurston Howell.

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>>3069678
And if the Colecovision kid was not around, us poor Atari kids went to the Intellivision kid's house to play Advanced D&D, since all we had was shitty Atari Adventure.

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>>3069678
Moral of the story:
1.) Don't get married
2.) Never sell a super action controller

>>3066089
>>3066667
It's an alright selection, but there are some odd choices there. I see several arcade ports, but BurgerTime is noticeably absent. I preferred it to Diner myself.

>>3069618
Yep, that's it.

>>3032919
Okay, how is this game so good? It's a single screen with a very simple maze, four enemies, three of which don't even kill you (until thw bats get replaced by th weakest robots) and you have to pick up a limited use gun every six shots, or when you die. Like, this game shouldn't be any fun at all on paper, yet playing it for real is a blast.

I do sort of wish that robot upgrades weren't tied to score and that the invisible robot had a bit more of a tell than just seeing it's bullets when it shoots.

>>3070690
It's basically a cover-based shooter with a good sense of escalating tension.

>>3071287
Amazing is what it is.

>>3071329
It's always been one of my favorites. A definite classic.

I'm 49. I lived in Jackson, MS from '80-'82 and I loved my Intellivision. We were one of the few cities in the country to get the original keyboard component. I remember seeing it in my local video game store, once. I also remember the price - $900. Yikes, just think how much that would be in today's money. I played my Intellivision regularly up to about 1994. Then power button got glitchy and you really had to work it to get the thing to even come on. I bought one of the plugin games they released a couple of years ago, but the sound effects are TERRIBLE. But I did play some Utopia for old times sake.

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>>3056614
Oldfag here. Where I grew up the Atari 2600 was the absolute shit when it first came out. But a couple years later the Intellivision came out and raised the bar. After that a lot of gamers began to regard the 2600 as a box for the plebs. The opening shots of the Console Wars I guess.

Myself, I was an outlier with an Astrocade.

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>>3074747
Utopia...
the birth of a genre?

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>>3033321
I think Tower of Doom was meant to be the third DND game on the system but the license fell through or something. Tarmin was amazingly atmospheric and engrossing.

On that topic, I remember this Ghosts of Tarmin indie game being released on the 360 as a fan tribute sequel. Anybody play this?

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Any love for this addictive gem?

>>3075105
I love it. I used to be so good at it.

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The idea of a plastic overlay sitting on top of the controller pad was not ideal...it was easy to hit the wrong buttons.
You had to memorize the overlay, and then get rid of it.
Besides that minor gripe, Intellivision and it's games were shitloads of fun.

>>3075839
It certainly has that compulsion element that makes you want to push yourself a little further. The introduction of more challenging fauna seemed to me to come at a better rate than in things like astrosmash. Don't tempt the fates for the snacks at the sides. There was always this stigma that the Inty did methodical and thinking games where the Atari was better suited for action lovers but Shark! was a great example of compelling action done right among others.

>>3076265
Really it evokes something like Mario did later and Intellivision in house development and software control was Nintendo like for pushing out quality and keeping out crap. The Blue Sky rangers were really an asset for Mattel. Daglow who worked on Shark! Shark! was particularly interesting in the long run for his past in the mid 70s for his role in early RPGs on PDP and Plato university systems.

>>3076291
Wasn't Shark! programmed by a female?

>>3076302
Tsao did help with programming yeah

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>>3076302
Yes

>>3076302
Actually, sounds like she came up with the idea as well from what the Intely site says on trivia. Not sure, but I had thought I read an interview or something crediting the design elsewhere but sounds like it's her in this case.

>>3076337
Kinda sad fate

>>3077967
Someones attempt at making a funny. Nothing to do with Ji-Wen Tsao who worked on Shark!