Commercial for Intellivision Game Console (1983)

I still can't believe that people would go ape over those graphics in comparison to today's!

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[sparrowkid]

does anyone know the release date? i cant wait to et one!

[Kirlian196]

The Mattel unit did utilize a General Instruments 1610 chipset........16 bit. Crude but effective. The TG16 used a 16 bit graphics chip ...yes BUT it still utilized an 8 bit CPU so technically the Mattel unit was the first

[sparrowkid]

@gir42399 considering i had one of these in the 80's , yes i am kidding. good to see you have a sense of humour.

[jcrowley1985]

Of course they're giving away free sports video games. Even to this day, I don't understand why developers make sports themed games. Like I'm going to spend $50 per year on what is essencially the same game with maybe a few new players.

Hell, I constantly see huge video game lots on ebay and at goodwill comprised solely of sports games for a buck or so.

Sports games suck!

[CHAM0RRITO]

people went ape over the first cordless phones. now look at us today. maybe in 20 years people will be laughing about how we went ape over the ipad.

[hootyhaha]

Flood Microsoft with requests to release Q*Bert on Xbox Live Market Place.

[gir42399]

@sparrowkid r u kidding?

1980- something!

[rjp443]

@Watcher3223

Perhaps I was a touch overzealous in my approach. I think I was just tired of inane trolls saying comments like "Can it play Crysis", "Look how far we've come", and "People would sh** their pants if they saw PS3 back then! LOL"

Now maybe that wasn't his intent; it probably wasn't. But people are just make these ridiculous quips, and I got testy. I should think others would keep a discussion like this "academic" 6_6

[Watcher3223]

@rjp443

However, MrSaturn33 merely made a lighthearted and fantastical premise not meant to be over-analyzed to the extent you exhibited: what if a PS-3 existed in 1980 along with software to show what it could do? Even on a lowly XL100, a PS-3 will look superior compared to the 2600 VCS and the Intellivision.

But, alas, such discussion is academic.

[Watcher3223]

@rjp443

"there would be no developers, because there would nobody with an advanced enough platform to develop games on"

Of course, if there was no way to develop any kind of software for a PS-3 due to lack of available technology, how could a PS-3 exist anyways?

[Watcher3223]

@Luigi84289

This only proves that more bits doesn't mean a better system nor does less bits mean a worse system.

For system power, the best measure is how many instructions the system can execute at once.

But, numbers on paper are just that; they may not give a good picture of the system's abilities as you'd see in real world use nor do they indicate what kind of software that's available.

[Luigi84289]

@Kirlian196 It's funny. The intellivision released in 1980 is 16 bit and wildly more popular.