What machine is this????????

[wapchimp]

Sorry no pics - but this has been bugging me.

 

When I was younger my Nan (how cool was she) had a video games machine to keep us occupied.

 

It looked like a 2600 with the wood effect/real wood - it had two controllers attatched via curly cords which sloted into the machine either end/side. The controllers had dials on them & changeable 'keypads'.

I'm pretty sure it had donkey kong aswell. It was a cart machine & maybe had credit card size game cards aswell.

 

My memory is a little fuzzy as it was 15 years ago.

What is/was it????

 

cheers :wink:

[badbrad]

sounds like an Intellivision.

[Vectrex-Atari]

Did it look similar to this? This is the Sears version of the intellivision:

 

 

[A2600]

Or just the Intellivision (Portofino Model) the first intellivision system in '79

[wapchimp]

yep - very similar - not in white, but usual black.

 

Maybe the controllers slotted this way though > & <.

But may have been front loading.

 

Does it have curly cords connecting controllers to system??

Im sure it had them.

 

I'm gunna ask her if she still has it. I don't see her very often.

I can see it now - I'll pop over & she'll be engrossed in front of her TV playing frogger on it -

 

(It was sooooo 70's).

 

Would you belive I'm only 24???

[A2600]

Heck im 16 if you think that your case is bad!

 

The Unit you want look like this defenetely!

I own an IntellivisionII which is a smaller compact model of the 1 model

 

Intellivision Model 1 (1979):

[gulag picture radio]

Yeah, I got Intellivision II a couple years ago, and within the last year I found the computer add-on, the keyboard, and the synthesizer. I plan on using the Synth in a band setup as soon as I mod the Intellivision II for direct output, and I also need to do some customizing of the keyboard. what I really like is how lal the components match stylistically. Too bad they never made a white "modern" Intellivoice module.

 

All I need is the Atari 2600 "system changer" and I'll feel really hooked up.

[wapchimp]

Heck im 16 if you think that your case is bad!

 

The Unit you want look like this defenetely!

I own an IntellivisionII which is a smaller compact model of the 1 model

 

Intellivision Model 1 (1979):

 

Yep - thats it!! Is it rare??? UK/European spec it would have been.

 

Does it have cart & mini cards games - or is my memory a bit fuzzed up there??

 

I said the age thing because most people who remember that machine were in their teenage years when that baby was released - making them at least 30+ now. I'm not to hot with any machine before a Nintendo NES or Sega Master system - thats what my teenage years we spent on

& rampage in the arcade....

 

Thats my earliest Video Game memory - oh that and a Plastic brown Pong machine made by Binatone - ever seen one of those???

 

I plan on using the Synth in a band setup as soon as I mod the Intellivision II for direct output)

 

That sounds pretty cool - do you have a Moog?????

[gulag picture radio]

I wish that I had a Moog. I've got a couple old ARP's, and the other analog keyboard is an Akai AX-80. Still, I feel really excited about music again picking up these weird videogame synths. I just found an FM synth (sort of like the Yamaha DX-7) that plugs into the C64. Still haven't played it, since it's software is on cassette and I don't have the right drive for it.

 

If you've got a spare Moog lying around, feel free to drop me a line.

[wapchimp]

I'd love a moog

 

Ive got a Marshall stack, so I'm pretty happy there.

 

Heard of a french group called air - they moog it up & play pong in their ''sexy boy'' song/video - It strangley sounds like they have picked a riff out of the Gouls & Ghost's game on the ST aswell?

 

Moog & Atari - They go together.

[A2600]

no its not rare!

 

and it uses small carts and its a side-loading console!

 

goto

http://www.collectorscardsandgames.com/games03.htm

 

and you will see one

INTELLIVISION

Complete system $30. Includes console, built in a/c adaptor and 2 controllers, Rf switch, video

cable and Las Vegas Poker & Black Jack game.

 

if you wnat to buy one the games are a dollar!

 

Bye Take care!