The Grandparents Connection

[IntellivisionDude]

A friend of mine posted on Facebook that when he was younger he played Intellivision at his grandparents house. And i could swear i have heard lots of people say that over the years. So that got me thinking and i decided to search "Grandparents Intellivision" on google. Not surprisingly i found some cool results.

 

Here is one back in February right here on AA.

http://www.atariage.com/forums/topic/194140-pardon-the-newb-but/

 

Scroll down to the 3rd post for this one. I really like this one.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/intellivision?before=1329314614

 

http://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/comment/3158634#Comment_3158634

 

http://www.digitpress.com/forum/showthread.php?106046-Fun-In-The-Basement-%28long%29

 

 

I'm sure there are more out there. But that was fun finding those. A lot of grandparents bought themselves an Intellivision back in the day. I wonder if even Bea Aurthur owned one?

[IntellivisionDude]

I have figured it out. Can't believe i didn't think of this before.

 

Rev was conceived when George Plimpton and Bea Aurthur got it on during a Snafu marathon.

[Bad Man Jose]

My grandparents were the only people I knew who had one

[+cmart604]

I have figured it out. Can't believe i didn't think of this before.

 

Rev was conceived when George Plimpton and Bea Aurthur got it on during a Snafu marathon.

 

Sweet!

[Rev]

I have figured it out. Can't believe i didn't think of this before.

 

Rev was conceived when George Plimpton and Bea Aurthur got it on during a Snafu marathon.

 

 

You know it!

[IntellivisionDude]

And i was unfortunately conceived when Keith Robinson went on a Burgertime and Pizzatime spree. It somehow happened when a Pickle mated with a Pepperoni.

 

I'm posting this in private right? Rev said nobody would see this.

[SlowCoder]

And i was unfortunately conceived when Keith Robinson went on a Burgertime and Pizzatime spree. It somehow happened when a Pickle mated with a Pepperoni.

 

I'm posting this in private right? Rev said nobody would see this.

Now I know your real name ... Peppi Pickleroni.

[townparkradio]

We're so much happier here than on the Atari parts of the boards.

[jaybird3rd]

A lot of grandparents bought themselves an Intellivision back in the day.

One explanation I can think of is that the Intellivision was marketed to adults in a way that the Atari 2600 was not. Or, as I put it in another thread:

 

The 2600 was intended primarily for home conversions of popular arcade games, and the initial games that were made for it reflected that. On the other hand, the Intellivision seems to have been aimed at more of an upscale market: it was much more expensive, it was advertised in mature outlets like Playboy Magazine, its woodgrain and brown plastic case didn't look like something that belonged on a spaceship, its pitchman was the urbane and erudite George Plimpton, and its games were seen as more sophisticated and more realistic ("the closest thing to the real thing"). Its initial library of games were aimed at a wider audience than kids who hung out at video arcades, so you had very detailed implementations of classic games (card games, board games, Horse Racing, etc), sports games, simulations, and other types of games that the general public was familiar with. So, in the beginning, the Atari was the "kid's console," while the Intellivision was the "thinking man's console" (hence its full name, "Intelligent Television").

 

Nobody in my family had an Intellivision, but it was my great-grandmother who made me aware of it for the first time, when she gave me a copy of Night Stalker for Christmas one year in the late 80s (she probably mistook it for an Atari game, since she knew I had a 2600). It was totally different from any Atari game I had seen, and it made me very curious about this mysterious Intellivision system that I somehow hadn't heard of before. I'm sure it played a role in my getting into the Intellivision as an adult ... and I've still got her Night Stalker cartridge to this day!

[IntellivisionDude]

A lot of grandparents bought themselves an Intellivision back in the day.

One explanation I can think of is that the Intellivision was marketed to adults in a way that the Atari 2600 was not. Or, as I put it in another thread:

 

The 2600 was intended primarily for home conversions of popular arcade games, and the initial games that were made for it reflected that. On the other hand, the Intellivision seems to have been aimed at more of an upscale market: it was much more expensive, it was advertised in mature outlets like Playboy Magazine, its woodgrain and brown plastic case didn't look like something that belonged on a spaceship, its pitchman was the urbane and erudite George Plimpton, and its games were seen as more sophisticated and more realistic ("the closest thing to the real thing"). Its initial library of games were aimed at a wider audience than kids who hung out at video arcades, so you had very detailed implementations of classic games (card games, board games, Horse Racing, etc), sports games, simulations, and other types of games that the general public was familiar with. So, in the beginning, the Atari was the "kid's console," while the Intellivision was the "thinking man's console" (hence its full name, "Intelligent Television").

 

Nobody in my family had an Intellivision, but it was my great-grandmother who made me aware of it for the first time, when she gave me a copy of Night Stalker for Christmas (she probably mistook it for an Atari game, since I had a 2600 at the time). It was totally different from any Atari game I had seen, and it made me curious about this mysterious Intellivision system that I somehow hadn't heard of before. I'm sure it played a role in my getting into the Intellivision as an adult.

 

Nice. All i will add is that last year i acquired some old Playboys and not only did it have Intellivision ads but i also seen Atari 2600 and Odyssey 2 ads.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFOeZt5rF18

[jaybird3rd]

Nice. All i will add is that last year i acquired some old Playboys and not only did it have Intellivision ads but i also seen Atari 2600 and Odyssey 2 ads.

And I'll bet you told everybody in your family that you bought them just for the ads.