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  1. I have to believe the numbers are accurate, considering the news sources that published those numbers, in that era. Those sales numbers likely came directly from Mattel's annual reports and corporate conference calls-the old fashioned way of business reporting. If they sold 750K units in 1983, it's not hard to imagine that they exceeded 3M between 1980-83 alone, not including 1978 or 1979.
  2. I believe that is correct. I may be a little hazy on details, but before Tommy purchased the Intellivision rights, ATGames was set to release an Intellivision Flashback 2 which was going to include the Data East catalog (or at least some of the games). When the Intellivision thing happened, then that project got scrapped. When Intellivision made their October 2018 announcement. it included Data East titles, Disney titles, Atari titles, and Imagic titles. It even included some early NES titles. But I don't recall any Activision titles.
  3. I had the X-Box version and it was pretty good. The only thing I didn't like is some games you had to set up the controller to set up the buttons the way you wanted, and that got old real quick. But it's a great collection of games, it had an interactive interface that was a pizza restaurant, where you went to different parts of the room to go to the games, the history, some extras (including commercials IIRC, and the My Intellivision video, etc.)
  4. Yes, Intellivision BurgerTime was the best. It was always just too clunky on other systems. I never put it on the controller, but there is probably something to that. As to the main question of this thread, I don't really recall what it felt like to have an Intellivision. . .I was probably only about 9 by the time our family system died. But I do remember getting up really early to be able to play it before the older siblings got to it. I struggled with some more complex games like B-17 Bomber and Bomb Squad, mostly because I was so young. But I remember playing games like Buzz Bombers, BurgerTime, Bump N Jump, Maze-A-Tron, Masters of the Universe, Skiing. . .more than I do playing Nintendo games. Unrelated, but something that is on my wish list for the new system (not to go off topic too much here), but Horse Racing was a popular game, and still is: I never had the Horse Racing game, but I had a friend that owned a bar that was also an arcade, and they had a giant screen game with a huge brass rail where multiple players could sit. You created and trained a horse by first choosing its parentage and it was stored on a removable card that you could keep and plug in later at any time to continue its career. I haven't seen horse-racing as a listed or suggested game/title as of yet, but would love something similar with an 8-player option.
  5. Peter Pepper & Mr. Pickle (BurgerTime) Recognizer (Tron franchise) Penguin (Thin Ice) Easter Egg/Bonus: George Plimpton
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