Mazerati Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 yup believe it or not back in the day my family was in the horse racing industry and Intellivision horse racing was very popular amongst the people in the industry and the gamblers...at the time this was the only horse racing game out and the fact that it looked and played great helped...i know many people that bought the system just to play Horse Racing in fact the horse racing game is the main reason my dad bought me the Intellivision for Chriatmas and it was my 1st cart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 I liked it as a kid. Didn't really get the betting, though. I'd just whip it to death and cry when I came in last :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Intellfan Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 I like horse racing as a family game . We still play it from time to time I take all the bets and we just let the horses run with no one controlling them . Still love hitting a Exacta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+DZ-Jay Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 That is very interesting, Mazerati. I never cared for it as a kid, but it is rather curious that Mattel ventured so much into the "games for adults" direction. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slab0meat Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 (edited) I always liked this game a lot. Any time I went to my friend's house (he was the only one with an Intellivision close by), I'd make sure we got a little Horse Racing in. Still like it. I even bought a few random ones over the years, but none since I had my Saturn.. and that game turned out to be a simulation, not a true horse racing game. edit: me can't spell horse wright Edited October 14, 2014 by slab0meat Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
krslam Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Mattel seems to have had a thing for horse racing. Maybe one of the execs owned a stable? They also made this for the professional gambler: http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/251669532883?lpid=82 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 The game the intellivision is missing is "Las Vegas Slots" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
First Spear Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Horse Racing was another leap ahead of everything else at the time. The people that figured out how to do betting and also action at the same time were geniuses. I hadn't seen anything comparable until I found Stakes Winner on the Neo Geo (played on my Dreamcast of course). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 I loved this game! Although it felt like animal abuse, even back then if you whipped the Horse right near the end....victory! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted October 16, 2014 Share Posted October 16, 2014 Horse Racing was another leap ahead of everything else at the time. The people that figured out how to do betting and also action at the same time were geniuses. I hadn't seen anything comparable until I found Stakes Winner on the Neo Geo (played on my Dreamcast of course).the best horse racing games are on the neo geo. The neo geo and the intellivision are both the far superior underdogs of their time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walter Ives Posted December 3, 2022 Share Posted December 3, 2022 On 10/13/2014 at 9:38 PM, Mazerati said: yup believe it or not back in the day my family was in the horse racing industry and Intellivision horse racing was very popular amongst the people in the industry and the gamblers...at the time this was the only horse racing game out and the fact that it looked and played great helped...i know many people that bought the system just to play Horse Racing in fact the horse racing game is the main reason my dad bought me the Intellivision for Chriatmas and it was my 1st cart Chris Hawley would really appreciate these kind words. APh was given "Horse Racing" as a theme, with no direction as to gameplay, and it was a bit of a challenge to develop that theme into a compelling game. (For those who haven't played it, it's a game of wits, compelling to those who enjoy studying the statistics published in the Racing Form and using their analysis to inform their betting. It's most fun as a multi-player game, where the challenge is to out-analyze and so out-earn your friends.) There are actually even a few people who like Las Vegas Roulette because its full support of complex betting combinations let them test their playing strategies. I doubt any of them post here, though. I myself find Roulette to actually be a very good implementation of a lackluster concept. Chang and APh, and later Baum, tried really hard not to release total trash. On 10/14/2014 at 9:22 AM, pimpmaul69 said: The game the intellivision is missing is "Las Vegas Slots" Slots exists and was used as a TV Powww! game. Craps exists too, but wasn't completed or released. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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