INTV Best Game of All Times - Round 1 - 12/25 (gamble and cards)

[vprette]

This is a pool to vote the best games ever for Intellivision :-)

There 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 will not find here a candidate for the best game overall, but Mattel produced several titles about gambling, cards, board games.. there is always market for that, and some of that are very well done again: I did learn play Poker from the professional instruction manual.

Those titles also make you play with parents!

 

 

Edited April 17, 2014 by vprette

[Fushek]

How can you not vote for that shifty eyed dealer. The facial expressions cracked me up!!!

[vprette]

How can you not vote for that shifty eyed dealer. The facial expressions cracked me up!!!

when he gets angry is fun!

[+intvsteve]

Agree w/ Fushek. Had to go w/ Poker. It's still fun! I enjoyed Royal Dealer and to some extent Backgammon. Roulette and Horse Racing never really did it for me though.

[+cmart604]

I expect Poker will be a runaway winner here.

[vprette]

I expect Poker will be a runaway winner here.

 

I think so, but was expecting more votes for horse racing

[Oscar G.]

Poker & BJ for me as well. Enjoyed reading the manual and playing the different games. My grandmother used to play Black Jack with me and laughed at the expressions of the dealer.

[vprette]

Poker & BJ for me as well. Enjoyed reading the manual and playing the different games. My grandmother used to play Black Jack with me and laughed at the expressions of the dealer.

good times....

 

my father was looking to me when I did play bj as well... teh other games were nosense for him :-)

[+JasonlikesINTV]

I placed money on Horse Racing to Win but, muck like the pink horse that Rev always bets on, it quickly petered out; bringing up the rear. Such a sad sight limping across the finish line

[+cmart604]

I placed money on Horse Racing to Win but, muck like the pink horse that Rev always bets on, it quickly petered out; bringing up the rear. Such a sad sight limping across the finish line

Lol! So many jokes in here.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

I'm with the consensus here - I knew how to play poker as a kid and being the pack in game with the dealer and a nice variety of games, this was an easy choice for me. My 2nd pick would have been horse racing which I did play a little with my cousins as a kid and had some fun with. Royal Dealer which I haven't played in ages would be a distant 3rd.

[Oscar G.]

Horse racing was my second choice here for me too.

[+DZ-Jay]

I owe my gambling prowess (such as it is) to Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack. I don't gamble, really, but I played Blackjack on my Intellivision so much as a kid that later in life, as I visited casinos when on holiday or with friends, I didn't do that bad.

 

Poker, not so much, couldn't really understand it when I was 9 years-old. Now, Strip Poker on the C=64, that's when gambling really made sense to me!

[Fushek]

Poker, not so much, couldn't really understand it when I was 9 years-old. Now, Strip Poker on the C=64, that's when gambling really made sense to me!

 

I don't know how much time I wasted trying to get the final pieces of clothing off! And remember when we had to wait a minute or two for the picture to finally load ... Come ON, it seemed to take forever!

[+DZ-Jay]

I don't know how much time I wasted trying to get the final pieces of clothing off! And remember when we had to wait a minute or two for the picture to finally load ... Come ON, it seemed to take forever!

Lol! That's when "hacker DZ" figured out that you could just rename the pictures from the floppy, so that the last ones were the first!

 

dZ.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

I was the opposite and loved all the poker games more so than Blackjack but we got both so everyone won there. Wow C64 strip poker - blast from the past - I asked for the C64 for Xmas but got a nice stereo instead. My cousins had that the C64 and we played that a lot:-) Would like to see on Inty one day?

[+wongojack]

I've got similar memories of c64 strip poker . . .

 

I went and played some of these today to be able to vote. I ended up going with Horse Racing, but LV P&B is a very nice game. I liked the randomness of HR combined with your ability to learn info over time between races (and make it less random). It added an element of depth that I thought was pretty cool.

[SiLic0ne t0aD]

I voted Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack.. of course!

 

In fact its always been one of my favorite games on Intv,

[vprette]

closing the pool

 

winner is:

Poker

 

goes to round 2:

horse racing