Intellivision®: Programmer Home Movies 1983/1984

[MichaelBr57]

Just thought I'd clarify a few things. The folks in the video were real Mattel Electronics employees. Intellivision had a 10-bit processor. And since there are a lot of ways to internally keep and calculate scores other than in an eight or sixteen bit integer, I don't think very many (any?) Intellivision game had a max score of 65535.

[horriehomepage]

These guys were gods of computer science. Without them we wouldn't have anything near the level of animation we take for granted today (including youtube). I would actually be surprised if they had time to do ANYTHING other than writing code and tracking down bugs. There were no hard drives, no DirectX APIs, no windowed operating systems, no "mouse," no "internet" to look up information, and probably no quality assurance or testing department. And all of this shit in Assembly Language!

[tonstad39]

And are those actual employies

[tonstad39]

Wtf it's freaking Mattel

[crusty21]

Happy fun loving guys. They probably all work for TSA now.

[SMGrawks]

This is pretty brilliant!

[marbleskc]

I love the intellivision

[Apostacious]

this guys caused the 80s game crash!

[wileycoyote64]

What a piece of crap office!!

[cageboyes]

3:03 - Nice glasses hehe..

[OBSysteme]

group leader with no group , haha!

[doctorx0079]

KICKIN RAD!!!

[ProportionalResponse]

HAAHHAHA  Awesome

[chazcov08]

Looks like Borat at the very end throwing that guy out! "We are closed now!"

[senorverde09]

This must have been made during the climax of the video game crash.

[trople]

Ace :)

[mchandler41]

lol

[mirwax69]

HECK YES the naked guy was hot.

[mikekinney288]

These guys are my new fucking Heroes. Amazing video to whoever found this and shared it with us! Thank you, Ill be passing this along to many old heads I know who will freak over this!

[InstinctEBM]

Haha, that is amazing.

[Love4SK]

loved those old mattel led handhelds

[graffititigger]

That naked guy was pretty hot!

[AllmightyLuigi]

LOL 1983/4, no wonder why they made this, because there was nothing else to do since of the game market crash. They were probably all given the sack shortly after this.

[VJTOMYAZ]

not half bad body for a geek

[MaximusRelaximus]

@narox In1983? Just as hard as it is to program the more sophisticated games today. No doubt even more difficult in many ways.

[horriehomepage]

@narox Actually it was really hard because they programmed everything in Assembly Language, and they only had an 8-bit processor to work with, meaning the highest number you can even represent is 255. Before you make stupid comments, why don't you think about how they showed a score of "10,000 points" on the screen when the machine can only understand numbers as high as 255. The DirectX API and C++ didn't exist back in 1978. One line of C++ code is about 4 to 6 in Assembly Language.

[FiveFingerCrawl]

@horriehomepage Intellivision had a 16bit processor.

[horriehomepage]

@FiveFingerCrawl Oops, you're quite correct! It was the graphics ram that was 8 bits wide.

The worst type of challenge I had was dealing with DOS assembly programming real mode vs. protected mode, and trying to make programs that worked on both. Widening and shortening stuff to fit in registers was a pain in the butt. Good thing college is over! :-D I'm still a fan of assembly though.

I forgot if any Intellivision games had scores higher than 65535. I'll have to play more to find out :-D

[VicRules666]

The cartoon code monkeys was based on these guys.

[DutchFord86]

Great :D

[glitchtoast]

he sound a bit slow, but he is entertaining ! Daddy jokes all the way!

[mogul1265]

Great.

[adog262]

What kind of messed up programmers are these?  XD

[TookMe20min2findThis]

@adog262

Probably the kind that had to work their ass off to come up with excellent video games with barely 1.2K of RAM and 1 MHz processors. These were GREAT programmers, pioneers...

[wolfschmidt11]

wonderful video.

[Lumotaku]

ask them about the horrible shitty controller!!!!

[EggoDrodd]

That controller rocked! Seriously, worse than the Atari? come on!

[Lumotaku]

Are you serious???? trying to play space attack with that disk controller hardwired to the console.

[joenkike2006]

3:35 looks like retroporn .... The guy had some muscles after all, not bad LOL

[longlivethe80s]

i live a few blocks away from where the mattel buiding once stood. there is now a ford dealer in its place.

[alvie3]

Where was it?

[longlivethe80s]

on rosecrans ave and oceangate in hawthorne.

[tuckn2much]

that tranny looks like rob dyrdek lol

[captainakron]

We are closed now!!!!!!!!!!

[morgangamer22]

nice video

[BohepansTheThird]

"This is Marketing - what the -Hell- do you want??" XDDDD

[Tialah]

A kool-aid man game?? o.o

[Caiaphas666]

It's worse than you think!

[EvaNatreal]

with the glasses the game looks like this....wooo..woooo..wooooh

[turducken321]

That was great! These guys were funny, a great bunch. Definitely innovative. Atari was so over-rated

[robotwo]

Yeah! Mattel remains in our hearts :)

Long live the homebrew community 8D

[supermusicfun]

a time long since past:{

i wonder if this done on company time?

[dj2bklyn]

THis is the dumbest video ever made

[Rachman1337]

Intellivision was really better than Atari, but Atari had a style that makes it stand out in history.

[Lectronimo]

Love the reference to the live-action Burger Time commercial at the very end.

[vladimirINPUT]

This might just be one of the best things I've ever seen.

[kinmanyuen]

lol Tux at 0:23 !

[Podolkster]

Was that Borat at 7:40?

[tomservo3]

must have been fun working there...you guys had some good times, eh?

[devilgryphon]

Just before 7:00 "No more ideas" GAG GAG CHOKE GAG GAG CHOKE! LIEZZZZZZZZZ

[bigdog49094]

LOL Being on crack is just so wrong guys .

[TopherPatten]

huh... weird people.

[mpontheair]

The "Big Three" in 1983: Atari, Mattel, and Coleco.

The "Big Three" in 2008: Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft.

[Orvtrebor]

"Micro$oft"

[BalladiChaos]

"$ony"... you can insert a dollar sign anywhere to show that these corporations are just after our money...

[jay4liberty]

Oh the horror! People creating companies that offer products for sale, what a bunch of greedy jerks.

Which computer corporation(s) got your money for the computer you're typing on?

[BalladiChaos]

That was kind of my point. I wasn't even defending Microsoft, just trying to show that all corporations are just trying for profit, and that MS hating isn't specific to just them. Sorry to even respond - this just cluttered up my actual inbox.

Besides the point. Great to see that Intellivision had a sense of humor. Sorry to clutter up your vid with a bunch of off-topic bulls**t, IntellivisionProd.

[Hutt1994]

he looks like the guy from zapax

[snake2006]

Yeah, go Commodore 64

Commodore 64 KICKS INTELLIVISIONS BUTT

[scrubslol777]

LOL! this vid was ODD

[itsabomberscope]

you guys make great actors

[GamingPalooza]

awesome video lol

[bos78]

The dumb broad around 4:00 or so is Amy Poehler from SNL??? Dumb broads belong at home making bebes.

[xXwhitexshadowXx]

*cough* *cough* sexist *cough*

[bos78]

Why did I write this? Its ridiculous.

[bos78]

Who is the naked guy? He's hot. Well, he was hot...probably in a retirement home now on his death bed. gross.

[manb4war]

Ah yes, smoking in the workplace, I miss those days...not

[xXwhitexshadowXx]

lol

[xXwhitexshadowXx]

lol

[ioport]

@manb4war Figures you wouldn't, faggot.

[alexander4488]

hey buddy fix ur picture its crooked

[MTXSHO9732vV8SHO]

Intellivision was the BOMB back in the mid-80's. NOTHING else could touch it until Coleco Vision came out. It's biggest drawback was that you needed 2 people to play sports games.

[rdillon7872]

is that a trs80 @ 00:24

[XANA8446]

yea! no smokeing!

[dj2bklyn]

This is a really disapointing vid and made what was suppose to be a professional envirment look really amaturish sad indeed.

[tommy2longview]

you must be fun person...lol...

[firesickle]

I noticed that most of the people in this vid are wearing rapist glasses

[firesickle]

This made my morning so awesome

[Orious69]

intellivision is really gonna sweep the market this year...

[alexander4488]

it already has. its outselling the ps3

[tommy2longview]

lol

[ehsdrummer331]

good stuff

[patu811]

Hey, this is some old comedy show or something, isn't it? Doesn't sound like they're serious.

[ioport]

80s nerds. Cooler than the dorks you find today.

[Holypo]

hé hé funny that's fucking right.

[RunandGunPictures]

@ioport Sadly I must agree.

[1coteca]

@ioport people were smarter back then!

[cubeguy2]

lol

[mrjfin]

I love those nerds they are real

[nexus1g]

That's an awesome ashtray starting at 2:10. My grandparents have ashtrays like that, but they're brown instead of green.

[frombies]

intellivisions tutankham on ebay 15 oct 07

[AdventureSerum]

I'm going to buy an Intellivison soon!

[MCTeck]

In 1979 I worked for Technicolor. We were under contract to build PC's that used the Intellivison game "Box" as part of their new "PC" I Did all the "Burn In " testing. And I also did Component and final testing [Q.C.] These units would go out ,then be re-called and then re-tested sent out again. When Compro took over , they said were shipping it all to Mexico... Nuff' said....

[GamerBlog]

i have a Intellivision =)

[saxxonpike]

I love these videos! It's so unfortunate that these kinds of videos are seldom seen outside the workplace.

[NESMASTER14]

OMG THATS MY DREAM!!

[stealthscalpel]

Watching it further, I feel like a fool. It IS a joke.

Good show.

[stealthscalpel]

WOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOooooooOOOOO­OooooooOOOOOOO!!!

Good Lord, it's like they did this as a big joke.

[dingorex]

Mesmerized,bring these games back!

[AmazingShoestring]

Geeks are funny! I should know!

[RelentlessSG]

This is hilarious!

[AlphaNerd01]

Thanks for this awesome post! Favorited!

It was really rare to see any 70's or 80's programmer/geek smoke.. I think he was faking it just so they can do the water bit. (If you read HACKERS: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, they talk at length about how geeks would always put out peoples cigarettes.)

Anyway, we just did a Retrospective about the Intellivision and the Intellivision Lives! collection. Click on my channel if you wanna watch.

[excel958]

4:21 was epic.

[ffmusicdj]

The year I was born!

[jrgilbert]

This is awesome. I find it so cool that if you look at their work area and today's game programmers work area they look nearly identical. I thought this was great. The look and old games just brings it all back. I was born in '71 like someone else who posted and I am with him. This video brings back all those great times as a kid. Oh, I happen to love their dorkiness (to the person who called them dorks).

[grumpybb]

I loved growing up in the 80's. I was born in '71 and I was addicted to my Intellivision. :D

[wingnux]

That was awesome! =)

[GreedoUT]

Dorks

[toomanygames]

Show some god damn respect for the people who pioneered video games. Without people like the BSRs you wouldn't have your precious Xbox 360 or PS3. What the fuck have you ever done that has changed the way millions of people have lived almost 30 years after you've done it?

I have crazy respect for Keith Robinson and crew, Intellivision indeed does Live.

[GreedoUT]

Dork lover.

[nigieworld73]

The good old BLUE SKY RANGERS!!!!!!!!

[Keranu]

I love this :) .

[jsr1978]

i love trhis!!!!

[mattskateboard91]

thats freakin awesome. I wish I could work there...

[superstonic]

who's the marketing babe?  woo woo

[toomanygames]

Heh, what's shakin' stonic? 8*)

Also, indeed. Who's the hot marketing babe?

[VoyBoyX]

Too funny.

And quite the interesting sendoff there at the end, given the history/fallout.

E.T. I wonder if they found that hole they dug where they buried the unsold cartridges.

[kristell9]

Hey, man!  It's 1982! Where's your 'stache?

[daystar]

haha very cool ~ thanks for the vid!

[sinistermoon]

Nice

[SupremeJudge]

sweet.

[CaptainWrong]

Very cool!

[youjones]

holy cats!

[mikedeceptacon]

I want a job there!!

[Skylinesandsunsets]

The guys behind the Intellivision games were cooler than I thought! :)

[airfixpelz]

Unbelievable characters!

[thuxley1983]

CRAZY!!!!