INTV Best Game of All Times - Round 1 - 15/25 (Imagic vs Activision)

[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

 

1st AND 2nd classified go to round 2!

 

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Were are all those good games coming from!

Another tough pool.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[vprette]

0 votes for pitfall so far :-0 !!

[+intvsteve]

I loved Pitfall! on the VCS, but was bummed at how "faithful" the Intellivision version was to the orginal. Actually, Stampede was like that, too. Activision's later releases were amazing, but those first two never really impressed me. I'd expected them to flex the Intellivision's muscle, as Imagic had w/ Demon Attack and Atlantis.

 

My vote went to Dracula, it being original and another graphically impressive title. Safecracker's 3D look is amazing, but it isn't as much fun. Happy Trails is good, but really just a clone of Loco-Motion, even though they did release it slightly before Mattel pushed Loco out the door. White Water! is pretty solid, too, but I still felt Dracula was more fun.

[vprette]

I loved Pitfall! on the VCS, but was bummed at how "faithful" the Intellivision version was to the orginal. Actually, Stampede was like that, too. Activision's later releases were amazing, but those first two never really impressed me. I'd expected them to flex the Intellivision's muscle, as Imagic had w/ Demon Attack and Atlantis.

 

My vote went to Dracula, it being original and another graphically impressive title. Safecracker's 3D look is amazing, but it isn't as much fun. Happy Trails is good, but really just a clone of Loco-Motion, even though they did release it slightly before Mattel pushed Loco out the door. White Water! is pretty solid, too, but I still felt Dracula was more fun.

 

in fact, anywhere I post Imagic games, those becomes winners of the pools!! Imagic is a serious contender for the Best Brand...

Edited April 18, 2014 by vprette

[Fushek]

Go Dracula! I really like to see unique games and this one certainly qualifies. Biting people, knocking on doors, avoiding the cops, turning into a bat, creating zombies ... great, unique game.

 

Pitfall for me was fun, but I REALLY wish there had been a goal to finish the game with.

[+thegoldenband]

Dracula is creative, but not as fun as it seems like it ought to be. White Water is along similar lines. It's funny, several Imagic games are basically minigame collections in all but name...

 

Anyway, I picked Pitfall -- I thought it was an excellent conversion, myself.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Went with Pitfall - only one I had as a kid and enjoyed very much. Honorable mention to Dracula for awesome graphics/cool concept & originality, but it gets repetitive and I went w/Pitfall as it is quite challenging and I'm still 1 treasure short of completing - one day soon enough.

[vprette]

Went with Pitfall - only one I had as a kid and enjoyed very much. Honorable mention to Dracula for awesome graphics/cool concept & originality, but it gets repetitive and I went w/Pitfall as it is quite challenging and I'm still 1 treasure short of completing - one day soon enough.

 

totally agree

I did buy dracula attracted by the graphic,, but the game was boring

[+cmart604]

Tough one again but I went with Pitfall over Dracula however I suspect they will both advance. Safe to say we can expect one vote for White Water once Rev gets around to voting.

[vprette]

one of the most equilibrated pools

[+cmart604]

Looks like some folks haven't voted in this one yet.

[intvnut]

I loved Pitfall! on the VCS, but was bummed at how "faithful" the Intellivision version was to the orginal. Actually, Stampede was like that, too. Activision's later releases were amazing, but those first two never really impressed me. I'd expected them to flex the Intellivision's muscle, as Imagic had w/ Demon Attack and Atlantis.

 

Apparently, Peter Kaminski (author of the Intellivision port of River Raid) got in some trouble for making the Intellivision version of River Raid "better" than the Atari version. On the Intellivision version, you can fly over land so long as you don't hit a tree, whereas you can't fly over land at all on Atari. After that, it was ordered that the Intellivision and Atari versions of games should be as much like each other as possible.

 

At least, that's what I remember him saying at one of the panels at CGExpo.

[vprette]

guys, what a group!

 

enoigh to say that a game like white wtaer got only 3 votes

[+BBWW]

This was tough as Pitfall and Happy Trails are two of my ATF's.

[vprette]

fantastic pool!

3 titles very close... we have still several votes to cast (average is 55+) so impredictable!

[+wongojack]

I (rather impulsively) voted for Dracula. This could be one where my vote changes in round 2. I'll have to give Happy Trails some playtime if it makes it through.

[vprette]

we close this pool

 

winners is:

pitfall (no surprise)

 

go to round 2

dracula

and

Happy Trails

[Oscar G.]

Yippie… Happy Trails made it!