#10 Intellivision Review

[DoxiMoxi]

I LOVE the music they use! 70s and 80s for the win!!!

[ATARI800XLfan]

Good review, is the system worth owning and collecting for if I already own a Atari 7800 and Atari computer?

[bloxxman978]

i have a intelvison plug&play

[skie1241]

coleco is way better where u can swap the controller with an atari or a sega genises

[uriituw]

The games had great gameplay.

[MattTheSaiyan]

Some elements of this system haven't aged well (the controller. yuck) but overall it has lots of charm and "Night Stalker", "Lock 'N' Chase", "Demon Attack" and many others are always worth playing in any decade.

[M3rtyville]

Intelevision was better than the Colicovision?

Well both are the same I guess

[Lifty4ever]

what is the name of the song

[MultiDrJekyll]

@Lifty4ever rock with you by michael jackson.

[DmitriyK07]

Video games have come a long way in terms of graphics and control...the future is bright indeed. Now if only developers would add more emotional gameplay, rather than more bits to their games people wouldn't rent games instead of buying them..imo.

[Lifty4ever]

what micheal jackson song is that

[MultiDrJekyll]

@Lifty4ever rock with you. it is sweetly a sexy song

[superlegoman64]

I can understand colecovision but not intellivision

[GrgOrwell]

Back in the Day this was the Console's Wars ...... you where in the Atari Camp or the Intellivision Camp .......... even when NES came out there where some my freinds hold on to thier Atari 2600 lol says alot for a gameing console

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

Whats that game at 1:20 called?

Not the particullar game but the style?

[rubenmorales19]

@SmoothCriminalAaron For me it looks like LightBike on the iPhone!

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

yeah, i have that but i wanted to know it's offical name, because i wanted to see what consoles i can get it for

[JESSIEEDSELL21]

its called snafu it was a weird game where u had to keep your line going as long as possible without colliding with anything

[SmoothCriminalAaron]

@JESSIEEDSELL21

thanks

[enterprise0709]

thats.... short.....

[narutomariofan99]

Why were so many facts wrong?

[brianbyg3]

i though my media player was playing the song at first. i was like WTF. but i,like the review and the song

[MOUNTnBLADE]

Love Saturn :)

[dallase1]

The name is Awesome. What other systems had a 16 position controllers other then the analog controllers that first came out on PS1?

Big and ugly as Fuck? What about X-Box?

[zeldajunkielol2]

How do you feel about the colecovision?

[quizno1992]

the intellivision downloaded games via cable tv??? holy fucking shit that is awesome!

[XxSTICH666xX]

this was not the second console. More like 5th if you don't include the standalone pong units.

[morgangamer22]

cool

[SnydlerReviews]

love the Micheal Jackson music at the beginning.

[TenguGuy]

Thats no Michael Jackson music..is it?

[Xiaopang3333]

it is...finest motown goodness

[Gregb7677]

Epic, he'd been gone from Motown for awhile

[epinky2295]

ya it is

[dave04045]

actually,

intellivision controllers suck!

But the systems are cool

[intellaricovision]

The Intellivision controller is well made.

[dave04045]

well made, but really REALLY bad. I have a system and i hate the controllers. A number pad is really bad

[intellaricovision]

I like the controllers...some say the controllers hurt your fingers. They've never hurt mine.

[howcin]

WHAT THE HELL IS INTELLIVISION LOL

[brtshstel]

the synthesised voice function required the add-on that came with B-17 Bomber and Bomb Squad back in 1983. the voice actually came out of the peripheral while the sound effects came out of the tv. but the voice module didnt have a volume switch, so it was loud.

[barney71777]

lol i had the thing in the last picture xD

[TenguGuy]

If this is 16-bit (hell, even 10-bit) then the NES is 32-bit.

[axxelander]

nice song in the background =D

[petrcech101]

Why was the Atari 2600 considered better than this?!

[wolfjak]

games

[Skylinesandsunsets]

Intellivision was expensive, processed slower than the VCS, most games had no game play, the disc controller tortured thumbs, and Atari also had the lion share of rights to port popular arcade titles.

Have you seen George Plimpton ads? When I was a kid, watching him on TV, I had no idea who he was.  I only got the impression that Intellvision was for arrogant elite snobs. Kinda like today's image of Apple computers!

[bigM10231]

it was the first console to have cartriges and color

[TenguGuy]

No it wasn't. You crazy. First console to have cartridges was the Magnavox Odyssey and the first to have color was the Channel F.

[bigM10231]

your wrong with the odyssey the odyssey is a dedicated console which dont use cartridges

[TenguGuy]

The Odyssey used cartridges. You needed a cartridge to turn it on. Ok, they were more like cards, but they still can pass as cartridges.

[bigM10231]

bitch you didnt read right its the first console not the first cartridge system

definition of dedicated console: built in games

and i dont see any cartridge slots on it and arcade machines are basically dedicated consoles

look up dedicated consoles

[ashafro]

@TenguGuy the odyssey did not use proper cartidges, it only had a circuit board jumpers. the console had the games and when the jumpers when inserted into the console, it then played the games. also the video did not even mention anything about color

[0M9H4X]

@TenguGuy:

the magnavox did not use "cartridges" as we know them.

the odysseys carts did not contain any data whatsoever, but they shut diferent circuits (which will trigger the white blocks to behave slightly different) so i wouldnt let them count as game cartridges.

[TheTDIking]

@TenguGuy Acually, the Magnavox Odyssey acually had 28 built in games, no cartridges were ever released, simply because there weren't supposed to be. (Although I may be wrong, I might be thinking of something else....)

[benanderson89]

@TenguGuy The first console with a Microprocessor and Interchangeable ROM cartridges was the Fairchild Cannel F. The Magnavox did not use ROM cartridges or contain a Microprocessor. The cards just altered the circuit path of the console.

[MegaFan1994]

Atari 2600 has cartridges and color and it was released in 1979.

[TenguGuy]

Actually it was released in 1977...But the Channel F was released in like 76 or something and it had both cartridges and color. It was the first to have color.

[Ronaldv002]

wich michael jackson number is this ?

[gumcool]

i have one

[ARodscousin]

lol, my dad said i can have his.

[filburt2365]

that's crazzzyyy technology for 1980!!!!:0

[clebo99]

I love Intellivision. Slam Dunk Basketball was the best game ever. I still remember most of the guys you could have drafted. WAY AHEAD OF IT'S TIME!!!!

[91juan]

this show rocks!!!!!!1

[cendoo]

how did this beat colecovison?

[dallase1]

what do you mean that name sucked ass? The name was Awesome. All Atari had for a name was a boring number and I think some kind of 3 letter name VCS for Video Computer System?

[veryyellowrx7]

oh my god , an intellivision ? lol i've never heard of it. wow , this system must be really really o l d . . .

[04am]

How can the Intellivision be 16-bit when the games from the 8-bit Sega Master System and Nintendo looks better ?

And what about the Sega "Genesis" it was 16-bit an looked dam nice, I am just a little confused.

[GoochandTheDooshebag]

"The registers in the microprocessor, where the mathematical logic is processed, were 16 bits wide, however, CPU's instruction set and game cartridges were only 10 bits wide."

~Gooch

[Nodieus27]

The intellivision had a 16bit cpu (not gpu) running at a mere 894.886 kHz, which is not just less then 1mhz, the ibm 8088 runs at 8mhz, the nes used a 1.79mhz 8bit cpu and a 5mhz custom gpu, atari had a 1.1mhz 8bit cpu. The atari only had 128bytes mem, while intelli had 2k, and nintendo had 2k expandable to 48k with rom, and 8k graphics, the intelli was way better looking then atari, but lacked in gpu to nintendo, a 800khz 16bit is like a 4mhz 8bit cpu. The nintendo also had sprite and scrolling

[ifhgsfj]

english plz.

[thatsistheguy]

@04am Bits do not equal better graphics. Bits simply refer to the way the processor processes data. That's about as simple as I can make it.

[boomstick545]

I love these guys, they're so funny

[BJI54622]

what is the song playing in the begging ?

[hiphopmuzik]

Enjoy your videos.

[heftymadmonkey]

WTF!?

[ahphooey]

I would love to get an Intellivision. We got the Colecovision for Christmas of '82, which also had innovations, such as being the first console with close-to-arcade quality graphics, and a series of add-ons. We got the Adam Computer, which came with Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom, but I also wanted to get the steering wheel, the first one for a console that I know of, which came with Turbo. I know what you're thinking, "It's just like Sega to release the pack-in game for failed add-ons."

[averagemale]

downloading playing content? Dude you are thinking of Sega system... do your homework.. of was this an audio editing error?

[GoochandTheDooshebag]

"In 1981, the PlayCable system allowed local cable-TV system operators to send Intellivision games over the wire alongside the normal TV signal. Subscribers to the service could then use a special converter -- the PlayCable Adapter -- to download the games to play on their Intellivision game consoles." Sega did have the Sega Channel, but it wasn't the first to allowed games to be "broadcast" over a cable connection. We did our homework, and actually owned an Intellivision! ~Gooch

[chadortom]

ooh, that was some ownage the gooch layed down on ya'llz

[IvoryGecko1993]

@GoochandTheDooshebag Are you sure its 16 bit Gooch? It looks more like its 4 bit Think about it... "Its 4! Learn how to F***in' Count!"

Atari 2600 was 2-bit

Intellivision was 4-bit

Colecovision was 6-bit

NES & Master System were 8-bit

Turbografx16... More like 10-bit

Genesis & SNES were 16-bit

NeoGeo was 24 bit

Playstation & 3DO were 32-bit

Nintendo 64 was 64 bit (NOT JAGUAR!!!!!)

[ashafro]

@IvoryGecko1993 please get your facts right

1. the colecovision used the Zilog z80 processor so is an 8bit processor not 6bit.

2. the turbo grafx had an very powerful 8bit processor and 2 16bit processors for graphics and video

3. the intelivision had a GI CP1610 processor which was 16bit.

4. the neo geo was a 16bit system because the motorola 68000 processor is 16bit. it did also have a z80 as a co processor but that is not the main processor.

[morgangamer22]

COOL

[alexander4488]

why do i have this?

[Centurey]

My dads fave console.