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The Intellivision is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979. The name is a portmanteau of "intelligent television". Development began in 1977, the same year as the launch of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. In 1984, Mattel sold its video game assets to a former Mattel Electronics executive and investors, eventually becoming INTV Corporation. Game development ran from 1978 to 1990 when the Intellivision was discontinued. From 1980 to 1983, more than 3 million consoles were sold.

RascalUK wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:52 pm Dracula
Tron Deadly Discs
Astrosmash

Three games that defined my childhood playing with my parents and I re bought the system for these games and the memories.

PistolsAtDawn wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:55 pm

RascalUK wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 6:52 pm Dracula
Tron Deadly Discs
Astrosmash

Three games that defined my childhood playing with my parents and I re bought the system for these games and the memories.

Second all three. Those are all great!

If you (or anyone!) has any advice over the best way to setup the controls on the MiSTer core, I'd appreciate it. I have three of these consoles and the Flashback mini in various working condition, so I may just sacrifice one of those controllers to hack something together through USB using a microcontroller if nothing else is a suitable replacement. I tried this core once with a regular gamepad, and it's not optimal.

charmless wrote: ↑Sun Sep 25, 2022 7:26 pmI was just about to ask how playable this core is with a standard controller.

PistolsAtDawn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:06 am I nominate:

Worm Whomper
Bomb Squad
Dungeons and Dragons Cloudy Mountain

That was a tough call. There were so many well-designed games for the Intellivision, and I've got a lot of nostalgia for them. This was my first game console. Picking only three and having to leave so many off the list felt cruel!

I'm thankful that Dracula got nominated, because that was a strong contender for me too.

Frog Bog is simple, yet fun and addictive. SNAFU as well.

Atlantis is a fun arcade-style invasion-defense shooter.

Microsurgeon is a colorful and original game about performing surgery on a patient's body parts from the inside as a tiny doctor.

The system was the first to have a 16-bit CPU and a service to download games wirelessly through a peripheral!

charmless wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 5:05 am Nice. I second all three.

We used to have an Intellivision when i was 5 or 6 or my neighbours did. I can't really remember. Looking at all these games doesn't really trigger any memories. I don't know how popular the intellivision was in Sweden but I definitely remember playing on one before moving on to the C64.

Yim wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 1:56 pm It’s two player only, but for me the Intellivision’s greatest game is Biplanes, part of the Triple Action cart.

RascalUK wrote: ↑Wed Sep 28, 2022 4:43 pm My original controllers don’t have a DB9 connection. Not sure if that’s what you meant.

charmless wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:18 am Cool! Tme to find out how playable this is with a standard controller.

PistolsAtDawn wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 4:15 pm

charmless wrote: ↑Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:18 am Cool! Tme to find out how playable this is with a standard controller.

According to my post office email, the adapter I ordered will be here today. I wasn't expecting it so soon since it had to go through customs. I guess I need to go dig out my Intellivision Flashback console and pluck a controller from it.

To map the controls to my standard gamepad, I had to set the number keys to the D-pad and the right joystick (NSWE and R3). It's inelegant, but it works. I was unable to setup a keyboard in conjunction with the gamepad, but I may have been doing something wrong.

What controllers are you all using for intellivion cores? I really want to play games like baseball that need the 0-9 number pad inputs

Edit: I got the flashback controllers working with the Ultimate PC interface. It took some fiddling but they work!

panik wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 3:11 pm

What controllers are you all using for intellivion cores? I really want to play games like baseball that need the 0-9 number pad inputs

Edit: I got the flashback controllers working with the Ultimate PC interface. It took some fiddling but they work!

I found an Intellivision Flashback controller for sale on eBay.

But that alone won't work, as you need an Ultimate PC Interface as well (version 2 on the website here).
https://intellivision.us/interface.php

If you get those two items, you're laughing. But it's a little expensive in all (and it really was for me with the postage to the UK, but I was determined).

Bump n Jump on Intellivision is an excellent port, even better than the NES version IMO. Would be great for a community challenge. I host the ones on the MiSTer Discord btw- currently we're doing Pirate Ship Higemaru

M.Walrus wrote: ↑Sat Apr 08, 2023 3:50 pm

Bump n Jump on Intellivision is an excellent port, even better than the NES version IMO. Would be great for a community challenge. I host the ones on the MiSTer Discord btw- currently we're doing Pirate Ship Higemaru

I agree it's a good port. Most of the Intellivision's were.

The club is inactive for a lack of time on my part and participation in general. I'm sure the discord gets far more traffic.

How did you map the Ultimate PC Interface on MiSTer? I can use one controller, but when playing UTOPIA, some of the direction keys are mapped doubled.