What exactly is IQ-180?

[Lauren Tyler]

I know that it shows a bunch of letters and stuff while playing the Alphabet song several times, but that's all I know. Anyone else got any info.

[supercat]

I know that it shows a bunch of letters and stuff while playing the Alphabet song several times, but that's all I know. Anyone else got any info.

 

It's a matching game. While the music plays, you have to remember (or photograph) the positions of all the letters in two panels. Then you have to match up letters in the first panel with letters in the second.

[Rom Hunter]

http://www.atariage.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=838867

 

[Lauren Tyler]

I thought it was something to do with learning the ABCs, given how it plays the Alphabet Song when you start.

[Rom Hunter]

No, it's just a memory match game.

 

The funny thing is that we still call it IQ-180 (because it says so on screen), while the only known to exist single-game cart release is called: I.Q. Memory Teaser:

http://www.atarimania.com/zoom_frame.php?T...amp;NUM_IMAGE=0

 

[rolenta]

No, it's just a memory match game.

 

The funny thing is that we still call it IQ-180 (because it says so on screen), while the only known to exist single-game cart release is called: I.Q. Memory Teaser:

http://www.atarimania.com/zoom_frame.php?T...amp;NUM_IMAGE=0

 

I have somewhere a dealer's price list from Panda, and I believe it says IQ-180 on it. I'll have to find it and verify this, though.

[Rom Hunter]

I have somewhere a dealer's price list from Panda, and I believe it says IQ-180 on it. I'll have to find it and verify this, though.

100 Space Canyon (Space Cavern - Apollo)

101 Tank Brigade (Phantom Tank - Bit Corporation)

102 Baseball (?)

103 Galactic Invaders (?)

104 Scuba Diver (Skindiver - Sancho)

105 Stunt Man (Nightmare - Sancho)

106 Dice Puzzle (Dice Puzzle - Sancho)

107 Conversation: The Watt Way (?)

108 Sea Hawk (Seahawk - Sancho)

109 Exocet (Exocet - Sancho)

110 Harbor Escape (River Raid - Activision)

112 Shuttle Rescue (?)

113 Midnight Rider (?)

 

Must be higher than model nr. 113 then.

 

Interesting, Rolenta.

 

Would love to know more about that list.

 

Could lead to Home Vision.

 

Edited April 21, 2008 by Rom Hunter

[rolenta]

I guess my memory is getting faulty in my old age. I couldn't find anything on IQ-180 and I might have had it mistaken with Dice Puzzle. It's weird because when CPUWIZ offered the repros a few years ago, I had heard of that game before, and not the Homevision version.

 

I'll keep digging into my archives. Maybe something will turn up yet.

Edited April 22, 2008 by rolenta

[Rom Hunter]

I guess my memory is getting faulty in my old age. I couldn't find anything on IQ-180 and I might have had it mistaken with Dice Puzzle.

That's possible.

 

The graduate on the Panda (and Sancho) box wears I.Q. on top of his head:

http://www.atarimania.com/zoom_frame.php?T...amp;NUM_IMAGE=1

 

It's weird because when CPUWIZ offered the repros a few years ago, I had heard of that game before, and not the Homevision version.

Interesting.

 

BTW: the labels of CPUWIZ' repros are labelled I.Q. 180 by Suntek, which is not correct.

 

Edited April 22, 2008 by Rom Hunter