Mattel’s Intellivision may always play second fiddle to the Atari 2600 in terms of public consciousness and pop culture ubiquity … Continue reading Intellivision Final Thoughts + New Additions

Considering how important Mattel’s sports offerings were for the initial success of the Intellivision console, these games don’t get a … Continue reading Intellivision Sports – Major League Baseball, NBA Basketball, NFL Football, PBA Bowling, PGA Golf, US Ski Team Skiing

I’ve assembled another mishmash of games for this post. I attempted to lump them into a single category but that’s … Continue reading Army/Strategy/Adventure – Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Armor Battle, Mission-X, Utopia

Auto Racing for the Intellivision, the game where you drive a formula one race car at dangerously high speeds in … Continue reading Game of the Week (9/24/17) – Auto Racing

The three games in this post really don’t have anything in common besides being “action” titles on the Intellivision with … Continue reading Intellivision Action – Frog Bog, Lock n’ Chase, Shark! Shark!

Mattel wasn’t the first home console to add a synthesized speech module, that honor went to Magnavox Odyssey 2’s “The … Continue reading Intellivoice and Games – B-17 Bomber, Space Spartans, Tron Solar Sailer

My Intellivision game of the week is Mattel’s classic maze shooter, Night Stalker. Night Stalker took elements from the popular … Continue reading Game of the Week (9/17/17) – Night Stalker

Even though Imagic and Activision made games for both the Intellivision and the Atari 2600, when I think of Activision … Continue reading Intellivison 3rd Party Titles – Atlantis, Beauty & the Beast, Demon Attack, Microsurgeon, Pitfall, Stampede

2 of the 4 Intellivision launch titles from 1979 were card and educational games, not exactly your traditional space shooters, … Continue reading Launch Titles – ABPA Backgammon, Electric Company Math Fun, Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack

Not to be left behind in the Star Wars craze of the late 70s and early 80s, Mattel felt the … Continue reading Space Titles for the Intellivision – Space Armada, Space Battle, Star Strike