New INTV releases

[chrisbid]

from the november blue sky rangers newsletter

 

http://www.intellivisionlives.com/media/ne...news051115.html

 

NEW INTELLIVISION CARTRIDGES

The question we get asked the most is: "Will you guys ever release new cartridges for the Intellivision console?" Finally, the answer is "YES!" Visitors to the Classic Gaming Expo in Burlingame, California, in August were able to play two new cartridges Deep Pockets: Super Pro Pool & Billiards and Illusions.

 

Deep Pockets is a game completed in 1990 for INTV Corp., which closed before they could release it. We published it for the first time in 1998 on Intellivision Lives! for PC and Mac; it has never appeared in cartridge form. Illusions was completed in 1984 by the Mattel Electronics programmers in France. The Intellivision version has never been released in any form.

 

Deep Pockets and Illusions will be the first two releases in a series of new cartridges for the Intellivision. The printed circuit boards, the cartridge casings, the boxes are all being custom manufactured for this special series.

 

Release date and price for the first cartridges will be announced soon in the Intellivision Newsletter. Subscribers to the newsletter will have the first chance to purchase the cartridges, so stay tuned!

 

 

anyone around here got the scoop on when these will be shipping? it makes me feel 100 percent better that the procedes of those awful INTV plug-and-plays went toward more worthwhile projects like releasing these games

 

im sure the biggest obstacle is the new mold for cart casings and the special EPROMS needed for the INTV. Its my hope that freeing up these large initial costs will lead the way for more unreleased material and homebrews in the future.

[+remowilliams]

I'd definitely like to pick up some new INTV carts

[jaybird3rd]

I ran across this myself the other day, but I had assumed they were a limited release that had already come and gone. I'd love to pick up a copy of Deep Pockets in particular; it's a very impressive title that makes me wish Intellivision development could have continued longer.

 

Unfortunately, I also see they've come up with two-player versions of the craptacular TV games. I realize that they're funding other projects with them, but in the long term I think they're turning off potential Intellivision fans who haven't had any other exposure to the Intellivision library. I sincerely hope that Techno Source has improved the games this time around, but somehow I doubt it. There's no excuse for it, either, especially considering the high-quality 2600 and Warlords conversions that Digital Eclipse did for Jakks' NOAC-based Atari Paddle.

Edited February 27, 2006 by jaybird3rd

[SteveW]

I'm looking forward to Illusions. I haven't seen the Colecovision version before, but i've read about the unreleased game on the Blue Sky Rangers web site. It sounds pretty interesting.

[jsoper]

I ran across this myself the other day, but I had assumed they were a limited release that had already come and gone.

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I've been on the waiting list since CGE last summer and haven't heard anything yet. Their most recent newsletter came out in December.

[Bruce Tomlin]

im sure the biggest obstacle is the new mold for cart casings and the special EPROMS needed for the INTV.  Its my hope that freeing up these large initial costs will lead the way for more unreleased material and homebrews in the future.

There's no need for a special memory chip if they can just make a bus interface chip on a CPLD or something. All it needs is a decoder and 16 bits of latch, but due to the 16 bit bus it would have to be a 64-pin device. And there's no way anybody these days is going to make a "special EPROM" for a relatively small project like this. I would expect a surface-mount CPLD and a 16-bit windowless surface-mount EPROM of some sort. Those would absolutely be able to fit into old cartridge cases if they could get the quantity they need.

[chrisbid]

im sure the biggest obstacle is the new mold for cart casings and the special EPROMS needed for the INTV.  Its my hope that freeing up these large initial costs will lead the way for more unreleased material and homebrews in the future.

There's no need for a special memory chip if they can just make a bus interface chip on a CPLD or something. All it needs is a decoder and 16 bits of latch, but due to the 16 bit bus it would have to be a 64-pin device. And there's no way anybody these days is going to make a "special EPROM" for a relatively small project like this. I would expect a surface-mount CPLD and a 16-bit windowless surface-mount EPROM of some sort. Those would absolutely be able to fit into old cartridge cases if they could get the quantity they need.

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im the last person to know the technical specifics, all i do know is that it is much harder to make an INTV cart than it is to make a VCS cart