mr_intv Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 So my kids asked me if everyone who plays/collects intellivision is as old as me? ?....I wasnt sure how to take that. So if anyone is willing to share their age feel free to do so. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_intv Posted January 22, 2018 Author Share Posted January 22, 2018 Im 45... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+arcadeshopper Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 49 Sent from my LG-H830 using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpmaul69 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 41 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 ***cough***oldasf@ck***cough*** 49. ? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+KylJoy Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 52. Average is climbing up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JasonlikesINTV Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm either an 800 year old wizard or a 40 year old nerd. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+LS650 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 51. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm either an 800 year old wizard or a 40 year old nerd. Or maybe you are both...? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+-^CrossBow^- Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 43 here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artrag Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 45 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humblejack Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 The $64,000 Question. The $64,000 Question is an American game show broadcast from 1955 to 1958 -63,936 or 64,000 ÷ 1,000 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Lathe26 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm 44 Wife is 50, she likes younger men 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spadafermo51 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 66 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+the1hatman Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 The answer, as it always has been, is 42. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I'm 50 but the wife keeps saying otherwise for some reason. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtariLeaf Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Physically - 48 Emotionally - 12 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1980gamer Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 I am only 30... in Hexadecimal. 48 in decimal I am actually shocked at the younger numbers here. Even 45, I would have guessed Colecovision or even NES would be your system of choice. In the Nintendo early days.. Most friends and myself had moved to the C=64. I didn't pick up an nes until 90 or 91? Didn't get a ton of use. The intellivision had a little rest in 1985. But then I got that catalog in the mail from Triton... and the rest is history. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignorama Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 30. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Im 45... Man you look a lot like George Plimpton and John Elway! I just turned 55 but i refuse to use the senior discount so I can still feel younger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 30. Great to see a young Intellivision player who was born after it supposedly died. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Great to see a young Intellivision player who was born after it supposedly died. And who is a Master Jedi , in the art of intellivision game playing. ?? I don't even come close most of the times and I've been playing these game more years than Ignorama's age. Cheers 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfy62 Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 30. and you are better at the games than all us old guys!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ignorama Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 (edited) Well, to go slight off topic: I run into the Intellivision completely by accident. I was a hoarder back then and just wanted as many consoles as possible, so I not even looked for anything specific and typed "Retro Console" in on Ebay, where I found a Intellivision. I had no idea what it was and bought it. But than I was pretty fascinated by its history and its marketchanging abilities. First 16 bit console, first download games and many more. So while I sold a lot of systems in the meantime (like Gamecube, Saturn, Jaguar, Atari 7800, WonderSwan and many more) I kept the Intellivision. Than, another accident made me to go for the complete collection. I bought a lot of new old stock from Venezuela, because the games were cheap and of course in a decent condition. But I stopped at a point when I almost had every common title. Then I discovered a Ebay-auction which contained Tutankham, as far as I knew back then a Ultra Rare game, which is the rating in many guides. So I bought this auction and thought "why stop here". Well, maybe because I had thousands of dollars to spend if I move on, but young people often do not plan very well for the future But hey, I had a goal, I had a job and so I went on and on. As some may remember it was very fast in the first place, but of course it slowed down a lot when I walked through the just "rare" games and came to the REAL ultra rare and also ultra expensive ones. So right now I am missing Learning Fun II as my last game to complete this journey. It was a fun one and even if the market broke a bit down (man, when I bought SMB it was around 400... ) I dont regret it. Money is there to be wasted. And in concern of the games: I like to break the mechanics. I am not really a good player in my opinion, but I try to see how the game works and how I can abuse its mechanic to get a good score. Like in Star Strike, in which I never flew left or right, because its a better strategy to just move up and down. Or in Tropical Trouble, our actual round, in which I dont even try to follow the path anymore, because its much safer to just move on and jump through the areas. Its maybe skill, but in a different way. More the skill to recognize these possibilities. Edited January 22, 2018 by Ignorama 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m-crew Posted January 22, 2018 Share Posted January 22, 2018 Ignorama , Thanks for sharing that with us. Very interesting story on how you got hooked to the intellivision. ???? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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