So I got an Intellivision today

[+Omegamatrix]

I won an Intellivison off Ebay yesterday and picked it up today. I believe that the people who sold it to me where some of the nicest people I've ever met. They were in Calgary and when they saw that I was too they emailed me saying I shouldn't have to pay for shipping and asked me to phone them so that I could arrange to pick it up. How cool is that? I bought this Intellivision with the intention of passing it on to a friend for a birthday gift (I don't know when that is, but I imagine it's got to be sometime in the future ). Anyway I thought it was going cheap so I bought it, because he's into Intellivision. I'm really into Atari and Coleco, and had no plans to collect for anything else. Having a different system in my hands though I thought I'd give it a try. I'm liking it so far, and I'm wondering if maybe I should be greedy and just keep it for myself. Probably bad Karma. Anyway will someone please make me a list of the best games to play for it? I might try and pick up a few more titles. I'm only worried I'm going to like it to much and not want to give it away!

 

The games I have now are:

 

Pitfall!

Venture

Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack

Astrosmash

Space Hawk

Royal Dealer

Armor Battle

Major League Baseball

Star Strike

Frog Bog

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Space Spartans

B-17 Bomber

Bomb Squad

Lock 'n' Chase

Horse Racing

Auto Racing

Tron Deadly Discs

Sea Battle

Donkey Kong

Mission X

 

I got the voice module too, but haven't tried it yet.

[Retro Archaeologist]

I would say you pretty much have most of the best ones for it already, good catch too

 

RA

[CaptainCaputo]

you should pick up nhl hockey, pacman, and the super pro sports games

[Lord Helmet]

You need Demon Attack and Burgertime for sure.

[+Omegamatrix]

Thanks everyone for who replied so far. I've been playing the Intellivison a little today and I find most of the titles to be rather unique. So far Tron Deadly Discs is my favorite. Cool Game!

[JB]

Get Microsurgeon!

[Brad2600]

Get Microsurgeon!

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Why? It's good for collection purposes but for the love of god, I couldn't figure it out!

 

[JB]

Get Microsurgeon!

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Why? It's good for collection purposes but for the love of god, I couldn't figure it out!

 

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Get Microsurgeon and a manual?

 

The game's just neat.

[sega saturn x]

Snafu would is worth the whole dollar you would pay for it.

[Lord Thag]

The somewhat rare thunder castle and diner, as well as tower of doom and treasure of tarmin are wonderful. Thunder castle is almost 7800/NES quality graphics. Wonderfull games.

 

I'll second the vote on Microsurgeon, as well as most of the other intellivision only Imagic games. You'll get them nowhere else!

[Mark III]

Definately get Utopia and Shark! Shark!, two of my favorites.

Also check out Beauty and the Beast, it's a pretty decent Donkey Kong Clone, but different enough to stand on its own. Intellivision is a great system to own, most of the best games can be found for cheap.

Edited September 15, 2005 by Mark III

[JB]

The somewhat rare thunder castle and diner, as well as tower of doom and treasure of tarmin are wonderful. Thunder castle is almost 7800/NES quality graphics. Wonderfull games.

 

I'll second the vote on Microsurgeon, as well as most of the other intellivision only Imagic games. You'll get them nowhere else!

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Microsurgeon's not INTV-only. It's also on the 99/4a.

[Lord Thag]

Microsurgeon's not INTV-only. It's also on the 99/4a.

 

Really! I didn't know that. I have a TI-99 but have never been able to find any carts for it. I didn't even know Imagic made TI-99 games. What else did they make?

[JB]

Microsurgeon's not INTV-only. It's also on the 99/4a.

 

Really! I didn't know that. I have a TI-99 but have never been able to find any carts for it. I didn't even know Imagic made TI-99 games. What else did they make?

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SUPER Demon Attack, at least.

 

Those are the only 2 I know for sure. I'd have to look to see what else.

 

 

 

For what it's worth, I prefer the 4a version of Microsurgeon. Feels a little faster, and I like having all the information available on one screen without paging back and forth. If the view window scrolled instead of snapping from screen to screen, it'd be perfect.

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That and my INTV controllers are twitchy.

Edited September 15, 2005 by JB

[jaybird3rd]

I'd say you've got a pretty good selection of games already. The only glaring omission that I see is Night Stalker, which is one of my favorites.

[+Omegamatrix]

I had a little more time to play today. I tried the Voice Module unit and the games I have for it. Bomb Squad has some catchy music and the voices do add something to the game. I really like this title, but haven't gone deep into any of my games yet. Basically I'm making three piles: Games I like, Games that don't appeal to me, and Games that I'm going to have to play more to decide. I'm really horrible for reading instructions, and there's a lot of buttons on the controllers.

 

On a side note I'm not sure whether Intellivison or Atari was the first system I ever played. Years later when I played The Legend of Zelda for the first time I thought to myself "I've played this game before on another system" but couldn't remember what it was. The spiders in Zelda were giving me deja vu. I'm now sure that I was confusing Zelda with one of the Dungeons & Dragons games on Intellivision. Are they all the D&D games on Intellivision pretty much the same graphic wise?