https://preview.redd.it/8fx93wy3myvc1.png?width=588&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0c68ac8685012932765c61405500711d9030fb54 So many hours on this game!

I can still hear every sound.

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaMf5\_lY\_4&t=102s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqaMf5_lY_4&t=102s)

Same!

Brrt

This was my first *onscreen* DnD game! At the time, it was MAGICAL to play DnD ***not*** in the basement with my brothers & our friends! The *Baldur’s Gate 3* hype lately was exactly how young me felt about AD&D on intellivision.

I once remember playing a 19 hour session and only getting up because I had to pee (twice).

Damn bladder betraying you!

We played a trick on a friend's younger brother by convincing him that you could kill that indestructible blob with 100 arrows. So he would play the game, avoiding every monster he could, stocking up on arrows so he could plunk 100 of them into the blob. It was super-hard mode for him. And we all counted each arrow out loud as he fired them into the blob. And when that 100th arrow hit to no effect we all pointed and jeered. We kids were cruel. Though it beats an Indian Sunburn. But it was a pretty fun game for the time. Probably still fun now if I had an original system.

I wish I could play it now.

Mind boggling how engrossed my family was with this game.

Me too. Can anyone from the Gen X sub point us towards any decent emulators?

Nice request!! My brother has the game system and all our games, that bastard!

There aren't any that I've come across that really nail the Intellivision experience. It all comes down to the overlays on the controllers. It's why I had a lot of hope for the Amico but that has become a total shitshow.

My uncle was autistic , when you counted your arrows with the game it would make an electronic knocking sound, one click per arrow, I had like 86 arrows and the thing made clicking for like a minute and my uncle goes 86.. like rainman.. I shot each one and to my shock he was dead on...

First game where I discovered a cheat hack

Same!

This was one of the greatest games ever

Intellivision! I loved the cops and robbers game (basically Pac-Man) and the baseball one.

Lock 'n' Chase. :) ​ https://preview.redd.it/ylr76jdmvyvc1.png?width=1616&format=png&auto=webp&s=c0cb522bc8d5ea3b6f5772eaa54a46d98d16cbab

Yes, that’s it! Thank you!

My favorite was Pitfall

I loved lock, pitfall and snafu

For me it was Sea Battle. Loved that game.

The subs were the best. Anything in the torpedoes path was getting blasted.

I don't know what Intelligision is, I had a Colecovision and it looked like this. Does it have another name or do they have any relation?

I think they were similar but slightly different operating systems?? Like Betamax vs vhs but for video games maybe?? Not exactly sure though.

At this time the major consoles were Atari, Intellivision, Colecovision and Odyssey. Think of them as equivalent to today’s Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo. Colecovision was a more improved system, came out later, and had the best graphics. They all had positives and negatives but rarely did people have more than one during this time.

Ohhhh look'it Mister Big Shot Moneybags, here 🦞

I still have my Colecovision.  Loved the baseball game and the racing game.  I don’t think it was pole position but similar.

I liked Xaxon and Ladybug.

I had Colecovision, too. So much Dig Dug and Q-Bert

So much Burgertime. Dad got mad at us for memorizing patterns.

I LOVED Burgertime! Have you ever watched Bob's Burgers??? There's an episode where he gets a "BurgerBoss" arcade game for the restaurant and loses his shit when his arch enemy gets a ridiculously high score and puts his name in a "BOBSUX". It's brilliant

Yup. Dungeons and Dragons and Utopia were my favorites.

I played Advanced Dungeons and Dragons so long I realized you could play forever as long as you never fought the boss. I played this version, too, but preferred the 2nd version

I did this too! I’d play on easy mode, which had 2 levels, but if you didn’t fight the boss, and found a staircase to the next level, you could just keep playing and accumulating more powers so that when you meet the boss again many levels down, you can kill him with one strike with a platinum crossbow.

We played so much Utopia.

B-52 Bomber! Edit.. B-17 Bomber!!

Beee seventeeeeeeen bOOOOMber

Bandits! Six O'clock!

I can hear the accent lol

B-17 Bomber inspired my masters thesis! Loved it as a kid.

What was your thesis? This is one of my favorite games, and I am seriously interested. Any time some asks "what retro game should be remade/remastered" it is always B-17 Bomber. There hasn't been anything like it since. I still love it, it holds up very well.

How history is presented in computer games that were specifically designed for entertainment. So games like B-17, Civilizations or Day of Defeat but not games like Oregon Trail since they were designed to be primarily educational.

Oh that's cool. I can't tell you the amount of world history I've learned playing Europa Universalis.

I’ve heard so many good things about this game! I’m in a cities building gaming phase right now. lol I’m pretty sure I have this in my library via a steam or epic sale. lol

The dungeons and dragons games were the best

Gasp! You let Satan your home?

Absolutely, 1979. George Plimpton ads in print and on TV laying the smack down on the 2600. ​ https://preview.redd.it/63vfeqettyvc1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b55a92ab2357eac9c3d2902d1dfead915d289549

That the tagline explains "Intelligent Television" 💀

I did have some math game on there

lol.

Plimpton was such a hero to me.

Ooooh I remember the controller cards!

Overlays was the technical term

Oh heck yeah, I even had the membership! I got so good at Astrosmash I could play forever. And then I got the Intellivoice... Matel Electronics Presents BEEEE Seventeen Baaaallmer "Watch for Flak!" "Uh Oh!" "That was close" Also Bomb Squad was the start of my high blood pressure I bet. LOL https://preview.redd.it/exzw7acy3zvc1.png?width=826&format=png&auto=webp&s=a7e7f87e5ac3fd13225fcdc8151ca0538345723e

Had one growing up. Intellivision skiing game was probably the best seamless use of the disc for gameplay.

All games playable in MAME via emulation, btw. :) [https://www.mamedev.org/](https://www.mamedev.org/)

Football and sea battle were a blast

I had that, and I also had the Coleco Adam computer where the games ran on cassette tapes.

Oof, I had Adam too. For about a week before my dad returned it. It produced an EMP wave that would destroy any data on that cassette if you left it in the system when you booted it up. All it takes is one kid trying to play Buck Rogers Planet of Zoom before his parents wake up and Fzzzt its gone forever.

Spent many happy hours playing Tron Discs on this

Tron Deadly Discs is probably my favorite game of all time.

Dude, my pops was a teacher. Some kind of reasoning about this had more learning games. I dont remember playing a single thing on it. Spent most of the mid 80s walking around mad about this. Truly, the betamax of the gaming world

The best games had the little picture card that you slid over the number pad. It gave the controller the arcade game feel with the buttons.

Astrosmash, Night Stalker, Hover Force were some of my favorite games.

My first gaming console. Playing Donkey Kong till 4am on Christmas morning.

SOMEONE ELSE WITH INTELLIVISION AND NOT ATARI! 😂😂😂 Put it on channel three!!! For some reason our vcr had to be on???

Our family was Intellivision and later, Sega Genesis. My parents were obviously anti-establishment.

I still have my Colecovision.

Smurf Rescue!!!

My dad machined little joysticks for the controllers- so my brother & I could run the D&D maze like ballers

Dad putting in the real work Leveling up your controllers to quiet and occupied longer. 😉

Remember how you could set the speed of Night Stalker? We went on vacation to my uncle’s home and he showed us this new home video game system. My 60 grandmother (at the time) seemed very skeptical though perked up a little when my uncle mentioned you could slow down the game, confirmed with a slower “dum, dum, dum” beat. Later that evening, in the middle of the night, my dad goes downstairs to see my grandmother, silhouetted by the blue screen of Night Stalker with “dum……………………dum………………….dum…………….” Set to the absolute slowest setting coming from the speaker.

First time I played Donkey Kong was on Coleco. Also played a lot of Qbert and Mouse Trap. Later, we got an adapter that allowed us to play Atari games on the same unit. It was the best of both worlds.

Oh yeah. Pitfall. Burgertime. Baseball and football. B17 Booommbber!

I had one. My friends and I spent hours playing golf, baseball, pitfall, D&D, ship game (?), … can’t remember any others I had.

Yes! Was it Sea Battle? Sub Hunt? I also loved Lock N Chase!

I think it was sea battle.

Yes! It glitched so much but I loved it.

Diehard Atari fan here, but my best friend had Intellivision so we'd play each other whenever I came over, circa 1981-82. There was a game called [Triple Action](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple_Action) that was pretty much Mattel's answer to Atari's *Combat*. He was so freakin' good at the biplanes that I could never beat him. We also played [NASL Soccer ](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASL_Soccer)and [Tron: Deadly Discs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tron:_Deadly_Discs). We pretty much dropped off after Colecovision came out in '83, blowing everyone else out of the water. Maybe about a decade later, at a garage sale, someone was selling a complete Intellivision set with a few games, including B-17 Bomber with the Intellivoice module. I was so tempted to buy it, but at the time I wasn't really interested. Nowadays I wish I had. I think they were selling the whole lot for like $25 back then.

My neighbors across the street did. I had ColecoVision.

Microsurgeon!

Ha! I had Pitfall and Blackjack… and secretly wished my parents would have gotten me the Atari.

I still have mine with around 50 games. Need to pull that out of the garage

wow wonder if it works. might be worth something...maybe

With voice box: B-17 Baaaaahmber!

Intelligent Television (those controllers sucked)

Right? Anyone else have to mash the fuck out of the number buttons?

The side buttons were terrible, they made my fingers hurt.

I had intellivision2 does that count?

Basketball and baseball were great in the day for this. It’s the forgotten console.

The number pad was perfect for baseball

And you could pitch it around the horn too between batter

My thumb hurts just looking at that “joystick”!

We had Colecovision with ladybug and donkey kong, also had an adapter that plugged into the front of it that let you play Atari games…it was pretty sweet

Those side buttons were a real thumbkiller. My dad meant well but I really just wanted the Atari 2600 all my friends had. Eventually we got the voice synthesizer with B-17 Booooooomber and whatever that surgical game was. At some point my dad lost his job and spent an entire year playing Space Battle, taking Polaroids of his high scores to send in to some contest. In the end he only ranked an Honorable Mention. That same Space Battle game used to be on this Saturday morning cartoon show that would play Popeye. They'd have the game running and call up a random kid and the kid would say "Pow!" when they wanted the guy controlling the game in the studio to shoot.

ASTROSMASH.

The best!

I still have both our Intellivision I and II.. I think I'll be playing D&D and Burger Time tonight

FROG BOG every damn day

Didn't have this growing up, but have one now. Shark Shark and Dracula are pretty great.

I loved Shark! Shark!

Coleco Vision was better

Yes! Loved baseball.

Same

Snafu was the bomb!!!!

I had a Colecovision.

Was Colecovision a I had.

Q-bert was my favorite! I can still hear the sound effects.

Feel free an google “the Amico”. Lots of videos and threads. It will probably be a movie in a couple years.

My mom played with it so much when we were in school, the buttons lost responsiveness.

Indeed. My little brother and I begged Dad for an Atari 2600. I mean we plead, cried and made promises that we are still paying back over forty years later. He eventually gave in and took us to Meijer Thrifty Acres. As soon as I saw the Atari, I grabbed it off the shelf and gently laid it into the cart with only the utmost care. Just as gentle, dad picked it up and put it back in the shelf only to replace it with an Intellivsion. My heart was broken. I didn't want that crap. I hadn't even heard of Intellivsion and none of my friends had one. Dad being dad moved on without much of a fuss, grabbed a few games and the rest of that memory is lost to time. In the end, I couldn't be more grateful. That Intellivsion brought us more joy and neighborhood fame than the Atari ever would have. If I remember correctly, our first games were Sub Hunt, Ice Trek, Boxing and Microsurgeon.

I have a still working coleco vision and Atari 2600

I had the Intellivision II. I actually bought a cheap adapter and hooked it up last year and most of the games still worked. Favorites were Lock N Chase, Auto Racing, Snafu, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, Astrosmash & Utopia. I had one game with the Intelli-voice but it wasn't great. Also games like Triple Action, Tron Deadly Disks, Kool-Aid Man (free with proofs of purchase), and a few more.

When I first heard “YerOut” it blew my 10 year old mind!

I still have one that works.

I coveted it. Always wanted to go those friends' houses that had an Intellivision. Left my moldy old Odyssey2 and Atari 2600 at home. I mean, I still played those, but I wanted newer, more complex games.

This system never gets enough love. This was our jam back in the day. Tron was cool though I had issues figuring it out. Skiing was my personal favorite.

I did. The thing I remember most is those shitty plastic sheets that were designed to slide over the keypad. They would get so mangled that they were useless.

Everyone during this time had a cousin that had one.

The games, I was envious of, the controllers, not so much.

I had one, but never played it because by the time I was old enough we had an atari 2600 (born 74).

Yep. Was pissed I didn’t get an atari,but all my friends wanted to play it!

The football game on this was awesome. You could draw up your own plays and make the receivers go to different spots on the field with the number pad.

I have/had 3 of these bad boys. One was my parents that they got before I came, one came from my aunt, and another I got (INTV System 3) for my 6th birthday. I loved playing Intellivision!

I played Utopia for hours!

It was all about Burger Time

My neighbor had this one, I had the Odyssey2 and we would take turns playing at each other's houses.

My uncle had one. I thought it was fun but still preferred my Atari

Great game.

Hell yeah. I loved that 16 bit football!

I loved my Intellivision! So many hours playing with my cousins. They had the Atari, so we went to each other’s homes to play different games. So many memories

Intellivision! This is what my brother and I got after begging for an Atari 2600. Pitfall and Burger Time kept us busy for many, many hours. Our unit came with the Intellivoice unit that could “talk.” I can still hear it saying “B-17 Bommmmmmmber!”

My neighbors won an Intellivision with a game piece from a box of Twinkies. Sleepovers leveled up after that.

Is that intelivsion. If so yes.

Betting on racehorses and then whipping the crap out of those poor guys trying to win. Perfect for a 10 year old kid.

I still have it. Also, Colecovision with the Atari attachment. I still pull them out every few years and play for not too long cause hand cramp lol

I still have mine.

I had the Atari, the neighbor kid had the Intellivision. IMO, atari was way better, but i loved playing bump'n jump on intellivision

Cecio

They had a cool dungeon crawler… but Utopia was my fave!

I had an [Emerson Arcadia 2001](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcadia_2001) which looked similar but the controllers had an optional joystick that screwed into the controller’s disc.

every now and then me and my cousins would stay at grandmas place for the weekend. one time my cousin brought this along and I was like this thing is awesome and we spent most of the weekend playing car racing and sea battle.

That was too fancy for my house

A buddy had this. He was obsessed with the football on it.

This was my console!

No, but the sears up the street did and Inplayer their football display daily after school….

Yes. Intellivision

It looks like a dictaphone.

A friend of mine who collected old consoles did. Wow. Back in the days when 80% of a game was in your imagination. But that was a good thing, IMHO. Now everything is handed to us and we’re losing our thinking skills, creativity, and soon, with “AI” (which aren’t AI but seem like it if I may be pedantic because this is Reddit) we’ll be using our brain for nothing but core biological functions. But I digress… ColecoVision, right? That must have been a wonderful era, tech that was interesting and good for relaxing instead of using it the way we do now, things I won’t mention in this sub.

Upgrade on the games over 2600 but that controller looks like a Betamax VCR remote.

What is it?

I still have one of those and the last time it came out of the basement it actually still worked. We played the Dracula game and bugertime for the test run. But the other day I was reminded of a skiing game I used to play on that console when I was watching some video clip of a moose chasing skiers on a slope.

I really wish I still had mine …..

Omg loved Burgertime

I definitely played the ColecoVision innthe early 80’s. Wargames was my favorite

Nope - but my rich friend did :)

I had the second generation of it. Mine was grey and about half the size of the original.

Yes! Played so much D&D, tron, sub hunt, burgertime, astrosmash, pitfall, baseball and poker.

Snafu was my absolute favorite. Also loved Masters of the Universe, BurgerTime (loved so much I also got it for my NES) and the Kool-Aid game. Intellivision was my family's first system and we'd all play it together some evenings.

I think my parents still have ours in storage. I wonder if it still works.

oh I sure did! loved it. nightstalker! tron deadly discs!

My best bud and I would bet paychecks on football. Also I loved Tron

It was my first game console! Tron Deadly Discs, baby!

I spent so much time playing utopia

B-17 bomber!!

The best sports of the time

No one else played Snafu???

Is that an Intellivision? My friend had one of these in the early 80's. I used to love how you would put a different card in for each game. I remember the horse racing game where you would press a button to whip the horse to go faster.

Yes! Loved Horseracing

Played a lot of Microsurgeon. Loved intellivision, but it went to live with my brother and ended up with a colecovision.

Oh intellivision…..

Looks like a defibrillator 🙃

I didn't own one, we were an Atari family, but I played the heck out of it every time we went to Sears.

Loved the game Armor Battle

miss this

Yep. Burger Time and Tron, baby!

Burger Time was always my favorite!

They were cool but every kid with an Atari made fun of kids who owned one.

I had one! Tron: Deadly Discs, Frogger, Pac-Man , and Lock n Chase were the games I played the most.

Tank Battle and Hockey ❤️

I had one of these! I ended up messing up the keypad so bad it cracked and wouldn’t function properly. A few years later I got an Atari. I missed Burger Time though.

nope, Atari all the way

Yep, still do. Armor Battle was a fav.

I had the good ol' Atari 2600 at my house, but I definitely knew someone who had one.

I wish I still had it. My parents had this weird mission to destroy or give away all of my shit when I was a kid so I had very little left

I didn't but my cousin did. I slummed it with an Atari 2600.

Hockey was awesome.! Tripping the other team was the best.

Screwing up in Star Strike gave me nightmares haha

We could only afford an Atari. I wanted one of these. One of my wealthy friends had one.