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The blog entries got a bit mangled from the AtariAge Forum Upgrade. I've finally gone thru and fixed each blog post for the Collect tutorial. While doing so I added a new COLLECT TUTORIAL NAVIGATION feature at the bottom-right of each blog entry. Big thanks to @Random Terrain as his version of the tutorial proved invaluable in fixing the blog entries.

I was 11 when the Atari 2600 came out. ANYTHING that came along was brand new and exciting, stuff that can't be appreciated now with this generation of people. Hell, I thought the Atari 2600 Football was awesome because all I seen before that was Pong and the hand held games. With that frame of mind you can understand why these games were so popular no matter what. When Coleco and Intellivision came out is when things really started stirring up.

Very true! Kool-Aid Man and Air Raiders are also fantastic despite them not being on Intellivision.

I'd never call it a great game, but I can enjoy an occasional round of Space Attack. If actually you're trying to win, it can get interesting for a while (but with practice, yeah, it eventually gets too easy.) I'd actually rather play it than Atari's 2600 Star Raiders, but yeah, pretty much any of the other 2600 starfighter games are superior. I'm not sure the primary reason for M Network was to lure Atari owners over to Intellivision (although, I'm sure they wouldn't have minded that outcome!) More likely, it was just to make money by porting their games over to the more popular platform. It's not like all M Network games were inferior to the Intellivision versions after all, but you know that, having given glowing reviews to Lock n Chase, Astroblast, and Dark Cavern.