A must see is "ICON-INTELLIVISON" this short documentry witch will break down how this first 16 bit console and the game programers made some history! Rickle YT thanks for your hard work this game is cool and now retro! ps i still play my intellivision II
In 1982, Intellivision was what I lived for, but I've never even heard of this game, and it wasn't even mentioned in their newsletters I used to get. Were some games only available in America? I'm seeing many other Intellivision games I wasn't familiar with, but they came years later.
The game as very interesting when it came up. It didn't quite have that addictive feel to it like Truckin or other Intellivsion games but still worth trying out.
Intellivision "Microsurgeon" is one of 240 video games nominated to possibly appear in the Smithsonian Institution exhibit on "The Art of Video Games." The public can vote on 80 of these! Enjoy voting at artofvideogames.
@cessnaace it was 100% intentional! erasing brain tumors with a microwave laser, defending against white blood cells and recovering the probe through the tear ducts all came straight from the movie
@hackbunny I wonder if Fox sued Mattel over this game for obvious copyright infringment. After all, Universal sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong, and they didn't even have a case. lol.
I have this game somewhere around here, I need to see if I can get it back up and running for laughs. Thanks for bringing back some of my childhood memories.
actually i seem to recall that in the pamphlet that came with the game, you were on-site at some disaster site at some secret research facility. or something like that.
i remember removing tar from the lungs and every 10-20 secinds it would come back again!!. this were the malboro days where they advertised smoking on billboards. God i miss the 80's lol lol
what a cool game. in a disgusting kind of way...it was ahead of its time...lol
I'm the designer and programmer of Microsurgeon. It's nice to still see so many great comments about the game! I'll be speaking about Microsurgeon at the upcoming "Games for Health" conference.
wow, small youtube world. Your work had me completely mesmerized every time we went tothe microcenter to get something for our ][e. Never could afford an intellivision but these images are a very important part of my nostalgia banks! Thanks :)
Hey! Loved the design and was wondering about the artistic process used to put together the graphics! Would be interested in seeing some other work of yours. When/Where is that "Games for Health" conference?
@ricklevYT dude i think u fucked up on truckin' it was alrighty but it wasnt as fun as microsurgeon and u should like get ahold of an intellivsion and play truckin' again its bad
@ricklevYT Wow, this is the real Ricky Levine? I played this game nearly as much as any other Intellivision game I had! I got it at a yard sale and it it came without the manual. I never figured out exactly what I was supposed to be doing, weird splotches seems to randomly appear and I never knew exactly what to shoot or not. But it was so fun traveling to the heart or the gall bladder or the brain on the weird psychedelic highways of arteries veins and tissue.
This game was straight up amazing. I felt genuine guilt whenever the patient died, although to be fair, if you've got end stage lung cancer, brain tumors the size of an apple and liver failure, there's not much I can do.
Intellivision was SO ahead of its time with games like this. Another that comes to mind is Safecracker, which could almost be considered Grand Theft Auto, but 20 years earlier. Then there's Utopia, which was pretty much a prototype 'God Game'.
Yep....pretty innovative. Sometimes though its programmers were overly ambitious. A B-17 simulation is way beyond what this machine was capable of. But yeah it was a step in a new direction. Maybe if the controllers were not so bad......
This was the best game, but on the hard level it was impossible. You could only cure maybe one thing if that, because you had almost no time to get anywhere. And at the end it shows a bill for your services and it would hundreds of thousands of dollars! LOL
@MikeInterpreter not impossible, I managed to save patient #2 on the hardest difficulty (I think I failed to recover the probe, though). The main trick was that you could shoot while moving if you used both controllers at once
The "Microsurgeon" should bleach the poor bastard's teeth while he's at it. Seriously I remember seeing this game at a friend's and thinking the crazy intricacy of the passage matrix wuz way beyond the inhouse ME games of the time.
Like when you first were in the brain that big grey splotch is a tumor and when the arteries or veins turn grey that means they are blocked so clear those passages! was a great game for it's time I also recommend Dracula and swords and serpents from Imagic
The graphics are the only reason I made the video. Since as you can see, I don't actually know how to play it. But the few people I've heard comment on it have said that it's actually a great game.
There's a full list of 125 games for the Intellivision on their website. The Imagic games I had were Demon Attack,Dragonfire,Swords & Serpents & the excellent Nova Blast :-)
@superpcenginegrafx I was wondering whether you'd read the manual, yes. You kept attracting white blood cells by leaving the bloodstream (kill enough and the patient sickens) and you didn't shoot any of the grey cholesterol in arteries or the black tar in the lungs. You can also switch ammo to aspirin to kill viruses. It's a rather sophisticated game despite the obvious flaw that you cannot visit the patient's pooper.
I was completely addicted to this game; Microsurgeon, Pitfall!, Dungeons & Dragons and Frog Bog! Love this game!
troyerthedestroyer 2 months ago
sorry miss the S in "ICONS" my bad...
magoo1902 2 months ago
A must see is "ICON-INTELLIVISON" this short documentry witch will break down how this first 16 bit console and the game programers made some history! Rickle YT thanks for your hard work this game is cool and now retro! ps i still play my intellivision II
magoo1902 2 months ago
A terrific game! One of the best games made for this old system.
DougMcDave 4 months ago
In 1982, Intellivision was what I lived for, but I've never even heard of this game, and it wasn't even mentioned in their newsletters I used to get. Were some games only available in America? I'm seeing many other Intellivision games I wasn't familiar with, but they came years later.
rob16248 5 months ago
The game as very interesting when it came up. It didn't quite have that addictive feel to it like Truckin or other Intellivsion games but still worth trying out.
BruceEmmerling 5 months ago
Very cool concept for a game system of this era. Makes one feel like taking a fantastic voyage. ;)
peterp21 7 months ago
You can even see the snot pulsating in his nostrils!
I remember this game but I never owned this console. Maybe it was in a commercial?
edzzzwin 8 months ago
kind of a bummer whoever is playing this doesn't know how to play the game.
thereagauze 8 months ago
Loved the Imagic games for the Intellivision. This was one of my favorites.
campentland 9 months ago
EWW!
sparta944 9 months ago
no voice in this version?? Love the TI-99/4a voice,,,.. wondered what Intellivisons might have sounded like...
djugel 10 months ago
Just found out about this game on the Smithonian website.
I sure hope it gets some exposure at the exhibit, that's some really interesting design. I voted for it, do the same at the artofvideogames website!
GuyRification 1 year ago
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Intellivision "Microsurgeon" is one of 240 video games nominated to possibly appear in the Smithsonian Institution exhibit on "The Art of Video Games." The public can vote on 80 of these! Enjoy voting at artofvideogames.
ricklevYT 1 year ago
This game was so damn hard. There were things flying around the whole time. I'm not a doctor, Intellivision people!
bubthunder 1 year ago
asprin always worked great for headaches
ericnva23456 1 year ago
its like a very early form of trauma center XD
inuskypie 1 year ago
Some of the sounds are exactly the same as Utopia. I recognised the "raining on crops" sound, the "catching fish" sound.
tml4873 1 year ago
What an awesome game. The beating gets louder the closer you get to the heart and the breathing when you go into the lungs.
Snoopy2299 1 year ago
what's the point of the game???
thegreatmasteryuri85 1 year ago
lol his teeth are pure yellow
MrMario393 1 year ago 2
This game has always reminded me of the old movie Fantastic Voyage. Thanks for uploading this vid. :)
STAY AWESOME! :)
cessnaace 1 year ago
@cessnaace it was 100% intentional! erasing brain tumors with a microwave laser, defending against white blood cells and recovering the probe through the tear ducts all came straight from the movie
hackbunny 1 year ago
@hackbunny I wonder if Fox sued Mattel over this game for obvious copyright infringment. After all, Universal sued Nintendo over Donkey Kong, and they didn't even have a case. lol.
STAY AWESOME! :)
cessnaace 1 year ago
Someone call a microdentist and bleach that guy's teeth! Eeeewyuck!! lol
loneshewolf74 1 year ago
I have this game somewhere around here, I need to see if I can get it back up and running for laughs. Thanks for bringing back some of my childhood memories.
joecichlid 1 year ago
This is why the NHS is in dire straights..
This is what our future surgeons now train on...
TheRusskinruss 2 years ago
@Somenormalguy1
Agreed
andyphil666 2 years ago
i think this guy smoked 2 and a half packs a day.
stormranger6 2 years ago 5
actually i seem to recall that in the pamphlet that came with the game, you were on-site at some disaster site at some secret research facility. or something like that.
schmeckendeugler 2 years ago
i remember removing tar from the lungs and every 10-20 secinds it would come back again!!. this were the malboro days where they advertised smoking on billboards. God i miss the 80's lol lol
what a cool game. in a disgusting kind of way...it was ahead of its time...lol
stormranger6 2 years ago
also check out the corn-yellow teeth...LOL
stormranger6 2 years ago
they had this on demo at my local "microcenter" back in the day.. was mesmerized by it..
sonick808 2 years ago
I was recently interviewed (6/19/09) about Microsurgeon on Dave Graveline's "Into Tomorrow" radio show.
ricklevYT 2 years ago
Never saw this in the shops and was very intrigued by it back in the day. Looks very interesting, how do you play it?
khisanth75 2 years ago
It was one of the best games....You had to cure the patient. Kind of freaky but a great game. Imagic made it.
clebo99 2 years ago
I'm the designer and programmer of Microsurgeon. It's nice to still see so many great comments about the game! I'll be speaking about Microsurgeon at the upcoming "Games for Health" conference.
ricklevYT 2 years ago 42
Really...unbelievable game!!!! We need this for the ITouch/IPhone.
clebo99 2 years ago
wow, small youtube world. Your work had me completely mesmerized every time we went tothe microcenter to get something for our ][e. Never could afford an intellivision but these images are a very important part of my nostalgia banks! Thanks :)
sonick808 2 years ago
Thank you for making such an awesome game!
SuperBuffetBoy 2 years ago
@ricklevYT
Hey! Loved the design and was wondering about the artistic process used to put together the graphics! Would be interested in seeing some other work of yours. When/Where is that "Games for Health" conference?
CommanderLulk 1 year ago
Note that my talk was at the "Games for Health" conference 2009. If you want to see a few pictures, my website is at rickslevine.
ricklevYT 1 year ago
@ricklevYT really thats awsome did u have part in any other imagic games?
123stephenno 1 year ago
@123stephenno Truckin' for Intellivision.
ricklevYT 1 year ago
@ricklevYT dude i think u fucked up on truckin' it was alrighty but it wasnt as fun as microsurgeon and u should like get ahold of an intellivsion and play truckin' again its bad
123stephenno 1 year ago
@ricklevYT I wanted so much to play this game but there was never an Atari version that I knew of.
UglySean 7 months ago
@ricklevYT Wow, this is the real Ricky Levine? I played this game nearly as much as any other Intellivision game I had! I got it at a yard sale and it it came without the manual. I never figured out exactly what I was supposed to be doing, weird splotches seems to randomly appear and I never knew exactly what to shoot or not. But it was so fun traveling to the heart or the gall bladder or the brain on the weird psychedelic highways of arteries veins and tissue.
theskypatroller 5 months ago
This game was straight up amazing. I felt genuine guilt whenever the patient died, although to be fair, if you've got end stage lung cancer, brain tumors the size of an apple and liver failure, there's not much I can do.
toddspal 2 years ago 2
this game was the SHIT back in the day...superb
Oche76 2 years ago 3
i had that game. it really was pretty innovative for its time.
daveheel 3 years ago
More sophisticated that even today's Trauma Center. I liked Microsurgeon better than Trauma Center: Under the Knife.
kgoundan 3 years ago
this game and this game alone is the reason i decided to become a brain surgeon
drdanr 3 years ago 3
Really? Got me into proctology. I was curious what else was there! I shouldn't have asked..
gillyssquashball 2 years ago
that is fantastic
sonick808 2 years ago
definitely a brilliant game, but I always wished it was an Intellivoice game and talked like the TI-99a version.
GunPoor 3 years ago
Intellivision was SO ahead of its time with games like this. Another that comes to mind is Safecracker, which could almost be considered Grand Theft Auto, but 20 years earlier. Then there's Utopia, which was pretty much a prototype 'God Game'.
Vastly underrated system.
bridgetown1966 3 years ago 3
Yep....pretty innovative. Sometimes though its programmers were overly ambitious. A B-17 simulation is way beyond what this machine was capable of. But yeah it was a step in a new direction. Maybe if the controllers were not so bad......
Kirlian196 3 years ago
whaa this looks so cool and funny....very innovative for its time....
marsiozo 3 years ago
whoevers playing doesnt know how to play you move faster if you stay in a bloodstream.. and they went right by a big ol brain tumor
jimbo32712 3 years ago 2
I've always wanted this game.
Shogun2727 3 years ago
awesome....a friend of mine had this
naard 3 years ago
i want that game
rlewis9226 3 years ago
Rent the Fantastic Voyage and you will get it. This game was so far ahead of its time. Still is fun to play.
Sundog1966 3 years ago
I don't get it...
2rafael 3 years ago
Gotta stay on the tracks or those damn antibodies come after you! I was pretty good at this, counted as two credits at med school! :D
1more4theroad 3 years ago
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i hate that game that game is garbage
rlewis9226 3 years ago
nothn beat the classics like lookig for badly animated tumors eh
retrogamer2007452 3 years ago
This game was awesome back in the day. Nothing comes close to the originality and quality of these old Intellivision games.
Dumachum 4 years ago
This was the best game, but on the hard level it was impossible. You could only cure maybe one thing if that, because you had almost no time to get anywhere. And at the end it shows a bill for your services and it would hundreds of thousands of dollars! LOL
MikeInterpreter 4 years ago 3
@MikeInterpreter not impossible, I managed to save patient #2 on the hardest difficulty (I think I failed to recover the probe, though). The main trick was that you could shoot while moving if you used both controllers at once
hackbunny 1 year ago
I remember when I was a kid thinking that this game's graphics were awesome. how far we've come, and yet I'd still play this game today if I had it
MisfitDoctor 4 years ago
The "Microsurgeon" should bleach the poor bastard's teeth while he's at it. Seriously I remember seeing this game at a friend's and thinking the crazy intricacy of the passage matrix wuz way beyond the inhouse ME games of the time.
howelldrake 4 years ago 3
the tumors, the sounds, the memories!!!
mferrusca 4 years ago
Wow,the game was made two years before I was born.
sugreev2001 4 years ago
Great post! This game and Utopia had to be two of the most original (and fun) games for the Intellivision
deodato2 5 years ago
I used to play this game for hours on end. Great video. Keep up the excellent work! Great finds!
huskerfan4life 5 years ago
I remember loving this!
carywhitt 5 years ago
dude! me too! i forgot about this game.
PitPat23 4 years ago
Like when you first were in the brain that big grey splotch is a tumor and when the arteries or veins turn grey that means they are blocked so clear those passages! was a great game for it's time I also recommend Dracula and swords and serpents from Imagic
Solinas36 5 years ago
Cool, thanks a lot.
superpcenginegrafx 5 years ago
Wanna know how to play?
Stay within the veins and some organs to minimize white blood cells coming at ya.
Then heal as much as possible via the patient chart (lungs, brain, etc). You need to use diff kinds of medicine for some bugs/diseases.
JDHammondman 5 years ago
The graphics are the only reason I made the video. Since as you can see, I don't actually know how to play it. But the few people I've heard comment on it have said that it's actually a great game.
superpcenginegrafx 5 years ago
I had a few Imagic games but not this one. A couple of space shoot 'um ups & a couple of dungeon & dragon clones. Can't remember their names, sadly.
mkbadger 4 years ago
There's a full list of 125 games for the Intellivision on their website. The Imagic games I had were Demon Attack,Dragonfire,Swords & Serpents & the excellent Nova Blast :-)
mkbadger 4 years ago
@superpcenginegrafx I was wondering whether you'd read the manual, yes. You kept attracting white blood cells by leaving the bloodstream (kill enough and the patient sickens) and you didn't shoot any of the grey cholesterol in arteries or the black tar in the lungs. You can also switch ammo to aspirin to kill viruses. It's a rather sophisticated game despite the obvious flaw that you cannot visit the patient's pooper.
steveasat2 1 year ago
This game's a piece of art
gurumed 5 years ago