Intelligentleman

Well it figures. I rejoin HSC for the new season and WHAM! Slammed my thumb in the car door. My laser blasting thumb. Talk about Intellivision Thumb.

Anyone care to offer up some pro-tips?

After one warmup game this was my score on a second game. Warmup game was way better. Will post another score later in the week.

Alight. I'm digging out Beamrider, overlays, and instructions.

Alright I think it's time for me to get back into the HSC.

Intellivision Shark! Shark! Space Battle B-17 Bomber Utopia Armor Battle

Just messing around with it again... And actually, the gameplay starts to become quite clever if you play as both characters at the same time. Since you don't need to push a button to attack with the knight, you can mostly keep your thumb on the disc. If you keep the wizard close by, you can use the knight as sort of a perimeter defense, and then that gives you time as the wizard to choose a spell and it at whatever.

This is such an odd game. The way it's configured, the knight seems to be the main character as it is the only one of the two player characters capable of advancing through the maze. The wizard then assumes more of a supporting role, and really, only in the 2-player game modes. But here's the weird thing to me - the wizard has a lot more going on in terms of his move-set. Most of the keypad buttons are assigned to an actual skill. You also have to actively locate the skills via scrolls in the maze. The knight? He really just runs into things with his sword and picks up treasures. I wonder why the developers didn't let the player choose which character to play through as. Both would have merits. Knight game would be faster and more aggressive. Wizard game would be more strategic and maybe slower paced. It's just a very odd choice that the character with the most dynamic gameplay possibilities is relegated to a side roll - and only in the two-player modes.

What year is it? 1983? Wait! 1984?

*Cart... as in shopping cart. I never got a chance to check out.

Yeah, same. This particular game came from CA, so I just figured it had been hanging around over there since the 80s, but maybe not...

Keeps telling me my cart has expired

Can I still pre-order a copy?

This one seems glued to the tray. My other imagic games with boxes haven't had this inclusion. Perhaps they fell off and we're lost over the decades.

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This one is a silver version. And there's a piece of cardstock supporting the back side of the plastic inner tray. I never saw that before...

Might do an unboxing

I'm island one and my six year old son is island two. He likes to play his island as a hostile nation hell bent on beseiging my island with as many PT boats as his economy allows. 😂 This game was 38 terms @ 30 seconds each.

This. And I'm a lefty. Reason I like this position is because it mimics every console I've ever played. Left thumb handles directional movement with the disc, right thumb does everything else. And for games like microsurgeon that were actually designed to use both controllers at the same time, I just use my right thumb on disc 2 and occasionally lift it up to hit the number pad. It's analogous to modern console dual joystick controls.

Those are rad ornaments

Yeah I hope to! Been busy with my new job. But now there's an intellivision sitting right next to me in the basement, so... I can probably squeeze in some scores for HSC! that's my plan anyway.

She's up and running!

Put me down for one. (Just posted this to annoy IntyFan) 😂 Edit: but also, I really do want this.

Got the original inty upstairs in my son's room, but this guy is going in my office in the basement. Only bummer is I just noticed one of the pins in the player 2 controller port of the Atari is missing. But whatever, I don't collect Atari games anyways, and I mainly just like the idea that it was somehow possible to sell a box like that! 😂

Yup, I've bypassed that old switch box, so I just have a nice coax cable running from the INTY to the TV.