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NBA Basketball (Intellivision, 1980)

Posted by Mezrabad, 26 February 2009 · 194 views

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NBA Basketball (Intellivision, 1980)

Wow, I've started and stopped writing this entry about five times. I'm just not sure what to say about this game. Like the era in which this game was born, I find it difficult to resist the temptation to compare it to the Atari Basketball title that proceeded it. As George Plimpton might've said, NBA...

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Sea Battle (Intellivision, 1980)

Posted by Mezrabad, 12 February 2009 · 82 views

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Sea Battle (Intellivision, 1980)

Sea Battle is a console title that does much more than one would expect a console title to be able to do in 1980.

Each player has a harbor and a limited number of naval units. The object of the game is to get your troop transport ship into your enemy's harbor by negotiating your fleets through the archipelago...

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NHL Hockey (Intellivision, 1980)

Posted by Mezrabad, 22 January 2009 · 256 views

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NHL Hockey (Intellivision, 1980)

Okay, I'm really behind in this blog thing. According to Wired, the blog is dead and now everyone is all a-Twitter. Personally, I can't imagine myself being limited to a certain number of characters, but I can certainly understand how a reader might want to limit themselves to such. I mean, there's a lot...

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Word Fun (Intellivision, 1980)

Posted by Mezrabad, 11 October 2008 · 77 views

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Word Fun (Intellivision, 1980)

Hey, did anyone else notice the complete revamping of intellivisiongames.com? They've had the same site up for years and its always looked circa 1999-2001 design style, but now they've got something that looks like it's database driven. Well, good for them.

I actually have a Word Fun cart, purchased...

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PGA Golf (Intellivision, 1980)

Posted by Mezrabad, 24 August 2008 · 82 views

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PGA Golf (Intellivision, 1980)

This is another game where many of the details of the real world sport are taken and compressed into an extremely realistic simulation. Now, I'm not able to say they've managed to simulate everything, but what they did consider in the design of PGA Golf and how they chose to display it, works...

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