Parsec on Intellivision

[Toucan]

Here's some information from a TI insider. Thought many on this list might find this info really interesting. It looks like the Intellivision cartridge lists need to add "Parsec" to their list of cartridge games. This is pretty cool. The below info was taken off the main page of my website:

 

"Did you know? That TI planned on converting some of their games (one being Parsec) to other systems? According to a reliable source, "The Intellivisions were in a lab which I visited once. They were reverse engineering it to see about making Parsec and other games for it. When they cleaned up the remains, somebody sent me a standard working Intellivision as a present. The dumpstered Intellivison had parts missing and wires hanging off!" Hopefully Parsec for the Intellivision would have made it to some type of beta stage, it would be very interesting to see this famous TI-99/4A game on another system! (7/11/04)"

[chrisbid]

hmmm, though for the most part 3rd party efforts on the Intellivision were often outclassed on other systems (with the exception of Imagic)

[Toucan]

I understand what you mean. I just think it would look cool on the Intellivision for some reason. If there was a Colecovision version, then it should have looked at least identical to the TI-99/4A version considering both use of the TMS9918A line of graphics chips.

[SteveW]

Nova Blast was a lot like Parsec, so I think it could have looked pretty good. I guess we'll never find a prototype for it, though.

[JB]

*perks up*

DAmmit, I want to see this. I LOVE TI Parsec, and find one of it's major deficencies that you HAVE to use the keyboard to change speed at some points.

'S the main reason I always dreaded refueling(after I grew old enough to realize that there were diffrent speeds, and that 1 and 2 could be useful...).

 

An INTV port would fix that major deficiency, by putting the keypad right at your fingertips.

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So would a ColecoVision or 5200 port, for that matter.