lol .I love how the guy talking talks aout how realistic the intellivision is while at the same, there is a baseball game on the screen with a score of 44-7.
Yep, I was an Atari kid, the boy down the road had one of these. I remember they had some negative commercials saying this was better than the Atari, but I always thought the controller was strange on the intelivison and preferred my Atari. Of course this was until 1982-83 when my cousin got a colecovision.
I still remember how much of a rip off the games cost. Most were $50 and up and sometimes costing $100 bucks. There was no way to try them out and you were stuck with them even if they they sucked ass. Still a great time.
You are comparing a system way ahead of its time that came out in the late 70s with the NES, which came out 7 years after, toward the end of INTV's run. They are in 2 different generations. NES has better graphics, but it was a while before they had any games as complex as some of the INTV lineup. There were a lot of INTV games that did play differently each time. Sims like Utopia was different every time. Treasure of Tarmin was very different each time played.
I know Nuke isn't comparing the Intellivision console which was created in the late '70s to the NES which came out a decade later. That's like comparing the Commodore Vic-20 to a newly built laptop.
@fawdown Actually, early NES games WEREN'T all that much more complex than Intellivisions. It wasn't until later with the development of more sophisticated mappers and more memory for the NES that it really started to look like the next-gen system it was. Compare Kung Fu on the Atari to Kung Fu on the NES. The NES is obviously better, but the gap isn't quite as pronounced as with later NES titles like Super Mario Bros 3 or Shatterhand.
@TheTurnipKing I didn't really get into NES right away. It was my brother that had it. I didn't play it at all until Zelda. I was still on my INTV as primary until almost 1990 (I still have it, and have repaired it a number of times). I know they enhance abilities when they get a better understanding of the machine. Things evolve when they learn to tap into it more. It may or may not be intentional. It could be a way to ensure more life out of it when it starts to flatten out.
"A lot more fun and a bigger challenge" compared to every game system that doesn't use a telephone for a controller. "Before you buy any other video game system, be sure. Play Intellivision first." Too late. The other system with a telephone for a controller looks WAY better... along with the NES. "So intelligent, no game plays the same way twice." Unless all Intellivision games use highly sophisticated randomizers... LIES!!!
If it wasn't for these 80's systems today's systems wouldn't be what they are. These 80's systems are the foundation for the Sega Genesis,PlayStations and Xboxes etc.
Honestly alot of people still play these old 80's systems. They are still fun to play sometimes. I actually have a Colecovision that I sometimes bring out and play.
lol .I love how the guy talking talks aout how realistic the intellivision is while at the same, there is a baseball game on the screen with a score of 44-7.
blackandblue10 haha ikr
Great spot! LOL!
Yep, I was an Atari kid, the boy down the road had one of these. I remember they had some negative commercials saying this was better than the Atari, but I always thought the controller was strange on the intelivison and preferred my Atari. Of course this was until 1982-83 when my cousin got a colecovision.
rufus566 and then came the nes and all other systems are crap.
I HAVE WANTED TO FIND THIS AD FOR THE PAST YEAR, FINALLY!
I still remember how much of a rip off the games cost. Most were $50 and up and sometimes costing $100 bucks. There was no way to try them out and you were stuck with them even if they they sucked ass. Still a great time.
this was stuck in my head for MONTHS, finally found it
Hard to believe that the Famicom came out the same year this ad was aired.
The first console i've ever played.
Funny ad lol
OMG I MUST BUY THIS!
Games never play the same way twice!
Wow, it's playing a remix of one of the songs in Snafu...
I loved Treasure of Tarmin and Utopia.
those stick out when I think of this system.
That music is a repurposed version of the SNAFU theme, a game that had amazing music.
@GialloHorror The song in this commercial is a remake of a song in a intellivision game: Snafu.
AN- TEH-LAH-VEEH-JUN
Bah gawd, that's SNAFU's music!
I often wonder what the kids in these commercials are doing these days.
using controllers with numbers is a bigger problem. Itellevision is for people who are really intelligent of using the controlls.
Intellevision was the shit!
I love this :P
At the end of the commercial it says Grace Bros like the tv show on BBC? That's awesome!
The music from this ad is from the intellivision game SNAFU. It's a slower version of the theme when there's only two snakes left on the board.
You are comparing a system way ahead of its time that came out in the late 70s with the NES, which came out 7 years after, toward the end of INTV's run. They are in 2 different generations. NES has better graphics, but it was a while before they had any games as complex as some of the INTV lineup. There were a lot of INTV games that did play differently each time. Sims like Utopia was different every time. Treasure of Tarmin was very different each time played.
@fawdown it came out in October 1979, so it was about as late in the '70s as you could get.
I stand corrected. But still, I remember the hoopla when Odyssey was released (and it consisted only of 5 or 6 variations of Table Tennis).
I know Nuke isn't comparing the Intellivision console which was created in the late '70s to the NES which came out a decade later. That's like comparing the Commodore Vic-20 to a newly built laptop.
Actually, Intellivision was the first 16 bit gaming system.
We used to get our boxers real close to each other and get double knock outs.
We loved that game. Made our fingers sore pressing those buttons like crazy though
Clearly a New Zealand ad to judging by the accents and store locations. It's scary to think that when I was a teenager, this was the best available.
Like the music.
@GialloHorror It actually came from the game Snafu first, but maybe that was influenced by that
I never realized this had the snafu music in it
0:17 "see how the players move, listen to the sound effects" lol
listen to the sound effects!
*WHOOOOOOOOO* so realistic!
0:18
hey that was my first game system
and I loved it
my first game was donkey kong
@blackandblue10 They actually got a hit to score that 45th insurance run.
Its funny how these "family" commercials are so similar to Wii commercials....
The score in that baseball game was 45 - 7. HAHAHAHA~~
@GialloHorror that music was from the SNAFU cartridge for Intellivision. Definitely NOT influenced by them.
Ah, the days of 8-bit games...
MrUnidyne fun fact the intellivision was actually 16 bits.
i heard these will make ur tv explode
Holy cow look at that baseball score @0:18!!! Dont those down under have a mercy rule?
People who had intellivison were consider the enemy of people who had atari back in the ol' days(it's like west coast vs east coast).
Or Nintendo vs. Sega in the '90s, or XBOX vs. Playstation during this century.
@blackandblue10 absolutely
@fjhuerta Yeah, Kraftwerk has been around since 1969, long before SNAFU and Intellivision
B-17 Bommmmbberr.
sounds Australian
It is
my teacher at school has this
BBEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVEHTHEEEN BOOOMBEEEER
@fawdown Actually, early NES games WEREN'T all that much more complex than Intellivisions. It wasn't until later with the development of more sophisticated mappers and more memory for the NES that it really started to look like the next-gen system it was.
Compare Kung Fu on the Atari to Kung Fu on the NES. The NES is obviously better, but the gap isn't quite as pronounced as with later NES titles like Super Mario Bros 3 or Shatterhand.
@TheTurnipKing I didn't really get into NES right away. It was my brother that had it. I didn't play it at all until Zelda. I was still on my INTV as primary until almost 1990 (I still have it, and have repaired it a number of times). I know they enhance abilities when they get a better understanding of the machine. Things evolve when they learn to tap into it more. It may or may not be intentional. It could be a way to ensure more life out of it when it starts to flatten out.
The music in this commercial reminds me of Kraftwerk. Definitely had to be influenced by that awesome group
"A lot more fun and a bigger challenge" compared to every game system that doesn't use a telephone for a controller.
"Before you buy any other video game system, be sure. Play Intellivision first." Too late. The other system with a telephone for a controller looks WAY better... along with the NES.
"So intelligent, no game plays the same way twice." Unless all Intellivision games use highly sophisticated randomizers... LIES!!!
looked like he was gonna pull that kids arm off for beating him... he must be a wookie
BEEEEEEEEEEE SSSSSSHHHHHEEVEEENN TEEEEN BBBOWMAH FTW!!!!!
Did that intellevision just came from the microwave?
i would buy one so i could play 'BEEEE SHEVENTEEN BAAALLLMER"
the brown haired woman playing with her curly haired and glasses wearing husband is hot.
Korg MS-20 music!
Like if you scored over a million points (like I did) in Tron Deadly Discs
'The intelligent hung video system' :-\
@blackandblue10 LMAO!
No game plays the same way twice...LOVE IT WHAT A CROCK OF BS
Boxing, OK... Yeah, Boxing. This sucks.
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More realistic hahahaha.
Who the F plays this crap nowadays?
Boefje de Wolf
People that lived in 1980...
If it wasn't for these 80's systems today's systems wouldn't be what they are. These 80's systems are the foundation for the Sega Genesis,PlayStations and Xboxes etc.
@alvaro alas and dumbass people like you hate on these
@alvaro alas this was my first gaming system. Played everything up to ps4. Don't hate!
Honestly alot of people still play these old 80's systems. They are still fun to play sometimes. I actually have a Colecovision that I sometimes bring out and play.
Is this a British ad