INTV Best Game of All Times - Round 1 - 21/25 (A+ difficult arcade choice)

[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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[vprette]

I know we have a big boss here.... but also lady bug and frogger were good games

[Intellfan]

Easiest one for me so far but I do like Frogger

[+cmart604]

I expect Burgertime to destroy all comers here. My question is which one will be second? Kool Aid Man is awful but it's one I wish I has more copies of. It's hard to find in good shape. Strangely the other 3 second place contenders I'm actually not bad at playing wise.

[Intymike]

I like Frogger a lot, but the decision is very easy! ...Burgertime...

[intvnut]

I thought Frogger was an excellent arcade conversion. Still, Ray Kaestner takes it with Burgertime on both counts as far as I'm concerned.

[vprette]

I guess in this same pool, burger time killed 2 big contenders for the Best Arcade....

[Oscar G.]

Ditto. Burger Time is the big boss here and without a doubt the best arcade conversion. I think this conversion is better than the Colecovision and NES one.

 

Nonetheless, I voted for He-Man (knowing that Burger Time will rightfully win) as the Super Graphics and the fantastic Music are qualitatively different to what has been done before on the Intellivision.

 

I hope that Mattel would have time to make more Super Graphics games. So far I know the other game of this kind is Thunder Castle another "next gen" gem on the Intellivision.

 

PS By the way, Carol Vs Ghost seems to be another Super Graphics game. Also its music is fantastic. Cheers.

[IntellivisionDude]

Burgertime is the easy winner here but Masters of the Universe is an easy second. Out of all the Intellivision gameplay videos i have on my Youtube channel, which one do you think has the most views? Masters of the Universe by a huge margin. Auto Racing is my second most viewed though.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Burgertime & Burgertime. He-Man/Frogger toss up for 2nd but would pick He-Man my a hair.

[+thegoldenband]

I've never really been a fan of BurgerTime (pattern-based maze games irritate me), so it's He-Man for me.

[+DZ-Jay]

I thought Frogger was an excellent arcade conversion. Still, Ray Kaestner takes it with Burgertime on both counts as far as I'm concerned.

I think the music cutting off on each sound effect makes it distracting and annoying.

[JoeM_Intellivision]

A little surprised by lack of love for He-Man - not greatest game but decent and had good graphics and sound. Thought would easily take 2nd but the pimp hand of Burgertime is too strong:-)

[+intvsteve]

Burgertime was the double-winner for my vote, easy peasy. Not even close. I did enjoy He-Man, but this is a runaway, IMO. Frogger was decent, but c'mon, man!

[+cmart604]

I wonder if Burgertime will pass Atlantis for the biggest margin of victory?

[JoeM_Intellivision]

I think yes with this grouping but recall Atlantis having a pretty weak draw as well.

[vprette]

I wonder if Burgertime will pass Atlantis for the biggest margin of victory?

 

what impress me is that burgertime gain the best % of any other, but in a more than decent pool with good opponents!

[JoeM_Intellivision]

Vprette, good point - BT might not pass Atlantis for %, but this pool was definitely stronger IMO.

[+wongojack]

I've never really been a fan of BurgerTime (pattern-based maze games irritate me), so it's He-Man for me.

 

I agree actually. I'm going to play a few of these again before voting, but my initial lean is toward He-Man.

[+wongojack]

Discovering that BurgerTime was a sort of a killer app on the Intv was interesting. As a kid, I was not aware of BT in the arcade or on any home computing platform. Somehow it never made its way into my C64 collection, and it certainly wasn't the type of game I was going to spend $50 on for the NES. I may have played it on Coleco at a friend's house or something, but it was never in the pantheon of arcade classics for me. Lady-bug is similar. I was never aware of the Pac-Man style sub-genre until I got back into classic gaming as an adult. I tend to enjoy Mouse Trap better than Lady Bug when it comes to that little niche.

 

So I played all of these again except Kool Aid, and I really can't decide. They are all nicely done arcade style hi score fests. Each one has nice sound and music, BT has the little interlude animations, He-Man has some varied gameplay, LBug has some collection and multiplier goals . . .

 

In the end, I voted for Frogger. It really is an arcade classic for me, and I like the "animations" for the bug and alligator. The music was also well done. I haven't really played it (or any of these) to a very high difficulty, so if one has a bit more longevity, that could make a difference down the line. Even so, I still think that I would be more likely to play a game of Frogger than any of these others on the Inty.