Intellivision® TV Commercial: PlayCable "Mickey's Pick"

PlayCable spokesman Mickey Mantle challenges a kid to any of the games available on the Intellivision PlayCable system in this 1982 commercial.

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[Anarkissed23]

I will forever wonder if Mickey ever got his game of baseball =(

[ayeroxor]

Is that kid a bobblehead?

[steve5123456789]

Ment to be very very rare.

[JohnFordDanceTroupe]

@Anarkissed23 The service probably died on him before he could play baseball.

[8motozero8]

@WebVMan this was around 1985, I was like 5 years old and kurisux is right, I think this was because of the video game crash at the time and things were getting liquidated. Years later I scored the same deal at KB Toys on the sega master system. I think those games were like 10 bucks. I played most every game system, just not when they first came out, shoot, I got Ataris outta the trash, I even scored the one with the keyboard built on it with popeye and james bond to boot. Those were the days!

[WebVMan]

$2.99?  You can barely find comics for that price now. Good deal. Then again, you can find PS2 games for $1.99, so I don't know. How long ago?

[WebVMan]

That really is Intelligent Television!

[checkunderyourbed]

Pretty interesting at how primitive the thing was. The impression was that it actually responded interactively but it actually just broadcasted all game codes at the same time in a large script and then just waited until the one you picked came along. On a side note...that kid creepily resembles a young Waldo...

[123stephenno]

i had playcable and i ordered astrosmash and i got asteroids

[kurisux]

It was during the crash: games could be had for next to nothing back then.

Not like I remember though: I was born in early 85, so the NES was right around the corner... >_>

[coolasshole23]

wow, playcable? its like todays early version of XBOX live, its not the same thing, but its the same idea. interesting

[Dalbert342]

All together were 500 bucks,tard