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  2. Posted

    The mobile skin doesn't work on Windows Phone 7, but then it didn't work on the previous version of the forums either... (It always reverts to the default skin).

    I should be able to fix this, I just need to setup the proper user agent for Windows Phone 7.

     

    ..Al

     

     

    That would be awesome! :)

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    Looks great. Any plans to have a mobile version of forum?

    There is a rather nice mobile skin that is automatically selected depending on the mobile device you have. It should work on the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Android devices, and more.. Have you tried it yet?

     

    ..Al

     

    I'm still getting the under construction screen on my iphone.. icon_ponder.gif

     

    The mobile skin doesn't work on Windows Phone 7, but then it didn't work on the previous version of the forums either... (It always reverts to the default skin).

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    I've always loved the Imagic box art. There was something about the silver foil, the bright colored stripes, and the photographs -- or photo-realistic art -- instead of drawn art, that I just loved, especially on the space games. Even if the games weren't always fantastic, the boxes always were.

     

     

    b_DemonAttack_front.jpg b_StarVoyager_front.jpg

  8. Posted

    Some of my personal favorites:

     

    5. Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

     

    4. Space Invaders (Demon Attack would be another great choice in this genre of game)

     

    3. Pitfall!

     

    2. Star Master (Star Raiders or Phaser Patrol are also very good and are similar, but I like Star Master best)

     

    1. Adventure

  12. Posted

    I really like Space Chase. I remember renting it back when video stores rented Atari games. Had it for the weekend and played it a lot. I don't know what it is, yes the graphics and scrolling effect are impressive but I just really like this game.

     

    The scrolling effect is pretty slick.

     

     

    But, is it me, or is the collision detection in this game a bit poor? Playing it on Stella, it seems that unless my missiles hit the enemy directly in the middle, they pass through with no effect.

  15. Posted

    The thing is that Activision had consistently high quality. I like some games more than others, but almost all of their games are decent.

     

    Now, if you look over at the "Best Imagic Games" thread... :|

     

     

    Yeah, but Imagic had the best boxes!

  17. Posted

    Thank you very kindly. No, I'm not at all concerned about storage. Secondary question, despite the name of the website here.

     

    How...exactly.. did the 2600 beat this thing? Alright, a rhetorical question, just saying. It's awesome! The games are so in depth and complex. I mean I do love my Atari, I still have mine in working order and last played it Christmas Day with my wife... but the Intellivision is a lot more cerebral. I can't believe I used to make fun of my cousins for having this 28 years ago.

     

    Just a quick update to my original response. I am not positive that the INTV III controllers were, in fact, removable, and I cannot find anything online that says either way. So, just to be safe, if you buy any controllers, you'll probably want to stick to INTV II or Sears, unless someone else can weigh in here with better info.

     

     

    As for the 2600, as a kid I was an Atari guy all the way, but several of my friends had Intellivisions, so we all played both quite a bit. In my opinion, while the INTV games had superior sound and graphics and were usually more complex, the Atari games were just more fun. Maybe it was the simplicity of the system which forced the game designers to focus less on graphics and more on game play. Or maybe it was just because the Atari was so much cheaper. And that may have led more people to buy it which led to more developers making games for it, which improved the odds of more fun games being made for it...

     

     

    I can say that as time passed, I never even considered buying a Colecovision or a Nintendo, and although I have bought and do own more recent video game systems, I've never enjoyed any of them quite as much as my original Atari and the Intellivision.

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    Ok, I'm going from memory here, because my Intellivisions are all in the attic in storage right now, thanks to my wife's demand that I de-clutter the den where they had been...

     

    The INTV II, INTV III, and Sears consoles all used similar controller ports that physically resemble the Atari 2600 joystick ports (although the Atari joysticks are NOT compatible). So, for your INTV II, the controllers for the INTV III or the Sears box should work. However, as I recall (and I'm sure you can confirm this on your console), the plugs on the INTV II controllers are bent 90 degrees to allow them to sit flush into the top of the console. I believe that the INTV III and Sears controllers do not have a similar bent and therefore those controllers will not fit into the INTV II console for storage. Also, the Sears console was beige-cream and the INTV III black (I think), so the controllers for those systems will not look like the white-ish INTV II controllers. So, from a style standpoint, they won't look right, but they will work for playing games.

     

    The original INTV I console used hardwired controllers, so I imagine that the replacement controllers being sold on the site to which you linked probably have bare wires instead of a plug and are meant to be soldered into the console. Unless you want to crack open your INTV II and do some wiring, you probably don't want those.

     

    I hope this helps!

  19. Posted

    I can see the humor in creating fake Intellivision covers. But "Nobody the Idiot"? I don't get that one. :?

     

     

    Ok, good. I thought I was the only one! I'm often a bit behind the curve on the latest Internet humor; I figured this was just another of those trendy things that all the kids are laughing at but go over my head...

  23. Posted

    It's threads like this one that make me so disappointed that the big game crash happened, thinking of all of the really cool add-on gear and games for the Atari that never were. (Intellivision, too.) One wonders how the home videogame and computer markets would have been different had Atari remained the dominant platform. Perhaps no Nintendo? Or at least not as big in the U.S.; perhaps it still would have been big in Japan. And on the home computer side, would we have seen the rise of the IBM PC, and subsequently Microsoft?

     

    But of course I'm mostly just disappointed that we didn't get all of the really cool stuff for the Atari like the Graduate...

  25. Posted

    Not sure if anyone else watches this show, but on Raising Hope last night on Fox, one of the characters was playing Pitfall! on an Atari 2600. You can't tell from the screenshot I grabbed, but there were some other carts on the table next to the 2600 as well. I couldn't make out which ones they were. I know it was meant to be funny, but still it's cool to see the classics show up here and there...

     

     

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    If I'm not mistaken, the sound was from 2600 Donkey Kong, however.

     

    Yeah, I wasn't quite sure which game the sound was from although it clearly wasn't Pitfall! Also, the guy "playing" it clearly wasn't used to the Atari joystick because he kept mashing his thumb on top of the joystick handle as if there was a button there, completely ignoring the big red button next to the stick.

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