Intellivision® TV Commercial: PlayCable is Here

In 1981 and 1982, you could get games downloaded to your Intellivision video game console directly over your TV cable - if you were in one of the limited areas that offered PlayCable.

Intellivision discontinued PlayCable in 1983 mainly because (a) it couldn't download the new, larger Intellivision games and (b) hackers discovered how to turn PlayCable modules into Intellivision development stations.

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• PlayCable
• Mickey
• Mantle
• videogames

[Morahman7vnNo2]

I just came here for the horse.

[METALMAN4Wii]

I tried calling my cable provider but they didn't know anything about this......?

[mspeter97]

and after sega place the sega channel and nintendo put for the super famicom (japan)

the BSX!

[MattTheSaiyan]

Good idea, ahead of it's time.

[5150gamer]

That is really amazing that something like that was available back then.

[JoebDragon]

@baarbear  This back in the 1 way cable days.

[baarbear]

Was there also a per-game charge or was it $12.00 all you can eat?

[thebeerwolf]

It was priced 12 USD monthly, the catch was "intellivision not included" of course. It bombed in the big video game crash of 1980's as well only 20+ games were available.

[baarbear]

I wonder how the pricing structure on that worked. Was it a flat monthly fee or a monthly fee plus so much per game?