Intellivision® TV Commercial: Arcade Games

[duececaboose]

night stalker was legendary. 

[BlackMidnight12am]

To this day I still have my intellivision and night stalker still in their original boxes. Oh the memories of playing night stalker.

[WebVMan]

Wait- Night Stalker was an arcade game?

[1UpProduct]

It's like the lucas of Intellivision.

[Butters644]

matell present b 17tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii­iiiiiiiiiiin bomber

sorry i go to play my intelevision

sorry i go to play marvel vs capcom 3 in my ps3 piz a chit

[franklinpriante]

VERY GOOD.

[xXHellkittiesXx]

Henry Thomas had the leading role in one movie (ever) and they act like he was a household name, lol, ET was the real star not him.

[Thepopcornator]

Who was that kid?

[GialloHorror]

I wish I kept all my video game consoles from when I was a kid

[trashratt]

@GialloHorror try e bay!

[ilania95]

BUT WHAT DID GEORGE PLIMPTON DO IN HIS LIFE?

AND IS HE STILL ALIVE?

(I don't know because I live in Europe and I was born in 1995)

But how was the gameplay in "Night Stalker"?

[makingitprod]

@ilania95 Mr. Plimpton was a "participatory sports writer," that is, he actually played the sports he wrote about in Sports Illustrated and in books: football, baseball, boxing, etc. Usually just briefly in exhibition games, but he trained with the real athletes. Since Intellivision initially emphasized their sports games, they hired a spokesman with first-hand knowledge of a number of sports. Mr. Plimpton died in 2003.

[luvmelikeudo714]

@ilania95 i played night stalker on my ps2

[WebVMan]

@ilania95 He sold plenty of Intellivisions and he died.... a year or two ago.

[MattTheSaiyan]

"Lock 'n' Chase" was a masterpeice!!

[Luigi84289]

night stalker is crazy fun.

[intellaricovision]

Intellivision>Atari2600, Odyssey2, and Colecovision.

[pancakejarsrfun]

Mr.intellivision! Why do you suck so much?

Intellivision rocks. This commercial doesnt.

[ivanha1]

Night Stalker sucks!

[Skylinesandsunsets]

No Way! Night Stalker was an intense game for its time. If Intellivision had more innovative games like NS, it would have sold more units.

[dj2bklyn]

its funny how there was no ET game for Intel

[snakes3425]

talk about lucky

[carsonsmith]

I think it was a good thing because E.T. for Atari sucked!!  But I agree....to have Elliott from E.T. and not even have a game for Intellivision is pretty funny

[xXwhitexshadowXx]

that does seem tempting...

[happy7117]

I too spotted Henry T!

[gusbaker4u]

As a kid, I had no idea who George Plimpton was, but to me he made the Intellivision seem like the system of choice for stuck-up assholes ;-)

[Replayability]

That's exactly what I thought too. Muffy, Buffy, Winthrop, and Rutherford all sit there with their pinkies up as they watch the butler play for them.

[RaptormanMT]

Like Apple is today!

[wolfjak]

no dude it's windows they are the friggin monopoly going here

[Skylinesandsunsets]

You hit the hammer right on the nail. Why didn't they cast someone popular at the time like Gary Coleman or David Hasselhoff?

Even if they had the licensing power like Atari did way back in the day, Intellivision was still too expensive.

[adog262]

Well, they did have pack-in games with Intellivision, so that's part of the cost.

[Skylinesandsunsets]

Every system came with a free game. Colecovision had Donkey Kong, the 2600 had Combat, and the 5200 had breakout (which was later changed to Pac-man.) Intellivision always came with poker/blackjack, and that is by no means a justification for its high price tag.

[adog262]

Oh yeah, but only the Odyssey 2 and Intellvision didn't require additional controllers.

Atari and Coleco systems were priced somewhat lower, but then they would have all these add-ons just to play a game, lolz.

[phogroian]

Intellivision's strong point was their array of sports programs, here they are trying to shake the image that that is all they had.

[jsr1978]

jeje i remember this old days!!

[AnathemaHeterodox]

Still have my original Intellivision, and a whack load of games. It still works too.

[DocSponk]

Same here, quite a sturdy console.

[amiga2000]

man, but i hated the disc controller

[archraw]

I rocked at tron deadly disks. Oh, the good old days.

[huskerfan4life]

I swear it looks like the kid from ET. Guess even he didn't want to play Atari. LOL

Intellivision rocked!

[Cdawgg07]

WHO IS THAT KID!!! (i need this newest gamesystem

[natamelon]

That's Henry Thomas, the kid from ET.

[burr1aj]

kind of ironic that the kid from ET even jumped atari's ship and started advertising the intellivision.

[tvtimetravel]

There was an Atari system on top of the TV in Elliot's ET house. That was why I didn't believe my sister telling me that was Henry (Elliot) Thomas at the time.

[hargosh37]

And he was also in a movie called Cloak & Dagger that featured an Atari 5200 cart that had secret fighter plans.