INTV Best Game of All Times - Round 1 - 6/25 (more sport)

[vprette]

This is one of the pools to vote the best games ever for Intellivision :-)

The will be several pools of 5 titles each to cover the following categories:

 

- Best game of all time

- Best sport game

- Best shoot'em up

- Best arcade conversion

- Best producer

 

Sport and shoot'em up have a specific category because of the many representative titles.

Arcade games have a specific category since it was a must of that time to port games from the arcade to console, and I remember all the magazines evaluating the power of the consoles by comparing the conversions :-)

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We are back to sport, since there are so many titles in this category.

This time a more "europe friendly" sports in the list.

 

Edited April 16, 2014 by vprette

[vprette]

wonderful games here... tennis is almost perfect but I do vote for soccer since is more fun.

Useless to remember that Spiker is possibly the Graal for inty collectors.. I do not own it so it is difficult for me to judge the quality...

[+cmart604]

While I like Spiker, this was an easy one for me. Mountain Madness FTW!

[Fushek]

Voted Soccer ... too many fond memories of playing it as a kid (often by myself ... which wasn't easy!).

[vprette]

curiosity:

 

after coleco announcing its console on the italian market, Mattel sent soccer+tennis for free to all people that owned an Intellivision, you just have to show the box in the shop!

[Intymike]

Soccer was a great game at the time, but I had more fun with Tennis.

[vprette]

aarghhh, I could never think soccer to lose the pool!!

 

I consider the mattel version the best soccer around until that Commodore Internation soccer come out on c64...

Edited April 17, 2014 by vprette

[doctorclu]

None of the above. Don't care for sports games unless they have swords, bombs, and ways to kill the opposing team members like "Brutal Sports Football" on the Atari Jaguar.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Soccer for me - it was my 1st game along with Space Battle in Xmas 1980. Lots of fond memories with this one!!

[vprette]

I think that alla the people that own a spiker copy, voted spiker !

 

there are not so many around, so the pool is still open

[Oscar G.]

I guess Spiker and Mountain Madness may have an advantage as they have a 1 player option.

 

Spiker is objectively an impressive game with so many options and great playability.

[vprette]

I guess Spiker and Mountain Madness may have an advantage as they have a 1 player option.

 

Spiker is objectively an impressive game with so many options and great playability.

is but... soccer!!!

one of my 3 preferred games in the system..

[Oscar G.]

is but... soccer!!!

one of my 3 preferred games in the system..

 

Sorry about soccer. I also enjoyed the game a lot. I fund the option to independently control the goalie something very cool.

 

The innovative 3/4 view of the field was so innovative at the time. Fifa series of games owe a lot to the Intellivision.

 

I remember that in an article of Retro Gamer it was mentioned that Soccer was the first proper Football game ever.

 

There simply was a lot of innovation at Mattel at the time.

[Oscar G.]

By the way, speaking of Mattel innovation, has anyone read the current Retro Gamer article on the 35th anniversary of the Intellivision?

 

In the article, there are some interesting insights into the "out of the box" approach of Mattel programmers. Good read.

[+cmart604]

Hmmm, four way battle for second, who will advance?

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Wow, surprised my spiker domination. Go Soccer - the 1st game I ever played even before poker.

[roberto]

Soccer was so much better than anything else back in the day and surely the game that was responsible for making the Inty so popular in Italy. I remember they were even playing it in TV shows before real football matches, asking people on the phone line to give "commands" (e.g. run higher, lower, pass, shoot etc.) to the players at the console in the studio! Really crazy way of playing a game remotely!

[vprette]

this pool is closing... please cast votes NOW

[+cmart604]

Wow. I didn't realize this was essentially a four way tie for second! Maybe you should do a quick two day poll of the four second place games and have us revote with Spiker already going through? It would then depend on what all the Spiker fans had as their second choice.

[vprette]

Wow. I didn't realize this was essentially a four way tie for second! Maybe you should do a quick two day poll of the four second place games and have us revote with Spiker already going through? It would then depend on what all the Spiker fans had as their second choice.

yes, this pool is very unpredictable... don't know how to manage

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Easy - pick Soccer its the World Sport and 2014 is the year of the World Cup:-) Just kidding, looks like Tennis has it despite our votes:-( Unless...

[BassGuitari]

Body Slam: Super Pro Wrestling.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Yeah I can't believe Body Slam got so few votes. If there is a re-do for 2nd place then Body Slam can be added for a 2nd chance but not sure will do trick - seems like many people never had this one due to rarity, other systems taking over. Good game on inty either way:-)

[vprette]

there is room for 10 more votes... so I keep this pool open for now... many other pools have clear results and closing

Edited April 24, 2014 by vprette

[vprette]

I think we need a second pool for this, with all titles except spiker