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  10. Posted · Edited by Ignorama

    Its not just me, I shared the info about the game on a german board and even not Intellivision-Fans are impressed, really impressed.

     

    https://www.nexgam.de/forum/thread/92511-intv-tnt-cowbay-aka-holy-shit-sieht-das-geil-aus-o/?postID=2399048#post2399049

     

    For example this comment:

     

     

    Sieht besser aus als manch ein NES Game.

     

    The translation is: It looks better than some NES games.

     

    And that is so true, if I just watch the video I really never have guessed its Intellivision. I am really hyped, the first time for some years. Just great work and I really love your passion for details, like the shadow on the character sprite when he walks under a roof. And on the other board somebody mentioned that the text-screens are like the ones from old silent films, I missed that part until he pointed that out.

     

    So thank you very, very much for a really well made and with passion made game for the Intellivision. I lost my passion to buy homebrews the last couple of years, but this beauty got my attention. I am happy to get a copy in April!

  14. Posted

    This is literally why I do all of my development in a very compulsively public way. I post code and regularly release on Github, this way, if for some reason I can't finish a project (real life DOES get in the way, I do not hold this against anyone), people can still use, modify, and hopefully, carry on and extend the things I've created.

     

    -Thom

     

    The problem was never that he is not able to finish anything. The problem is that he lied to us for years and now is a proven scammer. If he had refunded the money no one would care anymore, but it seems he has burned the money and may or may not will refund when he is finally able to.

     

    Personally, I think GB has mental problems. Its no statement to make fun about him, but his all behaviour shows that he lives in a complete different world and has no sense of responsibility at all. And if thats false, he is just a criminal, dont know which one would be better.

     

    But anyway, my strong advise to anyone: If this guy shows up again anytime, do not be naive and invest money in his projects. He is just not trustworthy at all.

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  19. Posted

    if, and I highlight if, it's now time for a crash (and you all know that I disagree on that), I'll be happy to be like one of the musicians of the RMS Titanic. I will be having fun until the end

     

    If we are looking at prices the "crash" already happened in many cases. There are many games which went down in prices extremely. Whorm Whomper lost about 60-70% of its value, same is true for River Raid and some others. SMB also lost about half of its price, as well as Congo Bongo. Even Spiker, which isnt surprising since its pretty often on Ebay.

     

    But its hard to call it crash, because prices were build by a bubble and sadly Atari Age was a huge part of that bubble. People here are pretty lose if they should put a price tag in Intellivision games, ignoring that the fanbase is very slim. So here, many prices "crashed", but just because they were pushed back then.

     

    If we are talking about the meaning of a community, the crash was years ago, may we never had one. I think there was a time when everything was allright, but it was long long time ago. Dont get me wrong, there are still awesome people in the Community, I am not ungrateful. Some helped me to build my collection back then. But unfortunately some of them went sour and bitter over the years. Which isnt surprising at all, because we had too many issues which divided the community in two or more camps and if you supported the one side, you were treated like an enemy of not just the other side, but rather everybody who supported them. And I am not namecalling anybody, nor I am referring to one single situation. If you think a bit about it you will find several examples and many, many persons involded into this.

     

    And I am totally aware that I am sounding sour and bitter myself. Actually I am not anymore, but I was at some point. It was about the time I decided to stop using Atari Age as an active member. Meanwhile I am resigned. I still love my collection, but I lost my passion to enlarge it. And I am still a bit bitter about the whole market situation, especially the homebrew market. And its about buyers and sellers.

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  20. Posted

    And now the sad truth: The number of topics which went down like this was growing the last couple of years in the Intellivision Community. In many cases I was a huge part off the problem, but its funny too see that the community doesnt need me to be sick of each other :lol:

     

    And another sad fact: Also the number of rip-off Brews has grown. Melk the cow as quick as possible, because tomorrow its maybe too late.

  21. Posted

    On Paddle Party is a very good version of Shuffle Puck aka Air Hockey.

    And guess what...it's programed by Dave Akers.

     

     

     

     

     

    It was years ago when I played Paddle Party, but if I remember correctly its the game from the right screenshot? If yes: Sorry, but that game is not even close to be as good as Shuffle Puck Cafe is. But to be honest: I can not imagine the fast paced gameplay of Shuffle Puck on the Intellivision. I also doubt the controller would be able to handle that pace. But at least a first person view would be a great start. I played hours of Shuffle Puck on Amiga.

  23. Posted

    But even back than its something you have to criticize. Especially if you consider that some of the games got an update which had AI. Multiplayer only is a bad system in a world without online support to be able to play 24/7.

     

    So yeah, if you had a friend/brother to play with you probably hat the most exciting hours back then. But that does not really cover the fact that its unfinished without a single player mode.

  24. Posted

    Every game with the word "Fun" in it is terrible. I also dislike all multiplayer only games. They are in fact not that bad, but they have no AI and so they are also not that good. Unfortunately its hard to find an opponent in our days, so they turned out to be nearly unplayable.

     

    So I rather play DK from Coleco than any Fun-Game and any MP-only Game, which means they are kind of worse than DK :-/

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  25. Posted

    Maybe some copies from leftover material. But as long David sold the games as complete packages, they had always Box, manual, 2 overlays, cart.

     

     

    Yes, sure. Its just a quesion when Jack bought his copy. And if you consider the leftover-sales complete or not (personally I would say they are not complete, but may some crazy variant collectors have a different opinion :lol: ).

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