I just bought an ECS (i think) and I need some help.

[chairmonkey4406]

It's mint condition and it's white with a red stripe around it. Theres a little flap on the front where the keboard plugs into. It says Intellivision Computer Adapter on it. I've never seen a picture of an ECS and I have read a little bit about it. Do you have to buy special ECS games for it? Does it have any games loaded on it (I left the power cord at my friends house) Sorry for my ignorance ( I bought it because I always wanted an Intellivision II computer module and it was six bucks) any help would be appreciated. Even some links would be great. Thanks!

[ApolloBoy]

Yes, you'll need to get special games for the ECS. There aren't any built-in games AFAIK.

[Mindfield]

Yah. There are a couple of ECS games floating around, such as Mr. Chips meets Bits & Bytes. They're pretty rare, though.

[SteveW]

Mind Strike is definitely my favorite ECS game. Come to think of it, it's my only ECS game. I totally lucked into Mind Strike anyway. One day in 1989 my friend told me that he had seen an Intellivision with a bunch of games and stuff at a pawn shop. So we stopped there on our way to a computer store he used to work at that was shutting it's doors. No Intellivision hardware, but I bought a bunch of games, one of which was Mind Strike. An hour later we went to the computer store, and I found the ECS there for $10. If that store hadn't had an ECS, I would have just tossed Mind Strike into a box and forgotten about it. Kind of what i've done with my Coleco games, since they don't play on my Inty II console. While I was at that store, I also bought two of those third party Atari 5200 replacement controllers for a co-worker along with an open box 2600 converter. That stuff cost next to nothing then. What I wouldn't give to get my hands on those controllers now!