Intellivision vs. Atari George Plimpton TV Attack Ads
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
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The Mattel Intellivision video game console had a big advantage over the Atari VCS graphically, and it ran a series of TV attack ads graphically demonstrating that fact, with an assist by writer and actor George Plimpton.
Perfect timing for posting this! 😁
Why is it perfect timing?
Atari just bought the Intellivision brand and rights to the games for the console. I made a post about the acquisition here on my website about retro video games: thedoteaters.com/?p=20241
It's not an accident. ;) I've had these ads sitting on my drive for awhile, I guessed it was time to put them together and post them, since Atari just bought Intellivision.
Intellivision? I believe that is Atarivision Mr. Plimpton.
It is now.
George Plimpton was the best video game advertiser ever!!! Also are there anymore people in America with that kind of accent?? You don't hear that accent anymore.
He was born in NYC and spent his childhood in the Upper East Side, so maybe that's where his refined accent and mannerisms came from.
@doteaters thank you
I hated this guy as an Atari kid. Looking back, Intellivision sports games were superior but they were 2 player only not to mention the controllers were dog$#!t. And for the record Asteroids still blows away Star Strike as far as gameplay goes. Space Battle on Intellivision was a real winner though…
Truth.
Asteroids looked like a much better game.
For sure that's true, although for the purposes of Mattel hyping their game in a 30 second TV spot, Star Strike looks a lot more graphically interesting, and reminded people of the iconic trench run from Star Wars.
I think the comparison is the visual graphics and gameplay. Asteroids is a great game, but Intellivision made games look better and more authentic.
Atari agrees...so they bought them, lol.
Funny how what's called "Atari" nowadays is actually Infogrames. The brand's strayed so far from its origin, it's empty letter.
True that. Neither Atari nor Intellivision really have anything to do with the original organizations, other than the old gaming catalogs.