My dad LOVED this game. We got the voice module and the first time we heard "BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMUUR" we were excited. My mom cringed. She hated the fake Southern accents. One night my dad was up until almost 2 am playing this. I could barely get any sleep because even with the sound turned down the voices were annoying. My mom finally got of bed to yell at my dad. "Why are you still up playing with that?" My dad never missed an opportunity for a witty return. "I have to make the world safe for democracy."
Never had a chance to ever play this game. But the historical significance of this game is nothing to scoff at. This game was one of the first games if not the first game to have a voice added in the game.
Crap... I'm old. I'm 52 in 2022! I was a teen in South America Playing this game at my buddy's house. It was light yrs ahead of it's time and we would spend every weekend playin it. Glad I was able to see the beginning of it all.
Thank you for posting this! My Dad would love playing this game & I would love to watch him. My father passed in 2000 & B-17 Bauuuuumer is a magical memory.
My Dad was the same. He loved this game. He went for the faraway targets mostly. Aaah, those good old days. I even used to bomb my airfield for a laugh.
"But only a few games were compatible, like B-17 Bomber. 0:00 0:02 BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEN BAWWMBER 0:02 Alright, f*ck the game, let's try Bomb Squad."
Fun fact: those garbled-beyond-recognition voices are [allegedly] Philip Proctor and Phil Austin, members of the Firesign Theatre who're responsible for some of the funniest surreal comedy ever recorded. Proctor's actually had an impressively long career in voice acting (albeit in mostly minor roles) and is joined by Firesign founder, Peter Bergman on another Voice Synthesis game, Bomb Squad
That voice at the beginning always cracks me up with how country it is... kinda amazing the Intellivoice could do all those different voices and accents and stuff!
When I was a kid I played in practice mode just so I could bomb everything and clear out Europe. I also tried bombing England with everything I had just to see how negative the score could go and the weird characters they would show as the score went down. Fun times.
I went to visit my grandma in 96, I was 15, I stayed at their house for a week...One long week... after a few days she told me about the video game that they had and it was this game. All I remember was the B17 Bombeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr LoL.
This takes me back the magic period between when the home gaming market crashed and right before Nintendo revived it. My father bought an intellivision on clearance and I loved playing this game and a few others.
I got this game during Christmas of 1982 and loved it. I didn't get the separately sold Intellivoice module right away but found it wasn't necessary to play this game. The module was especially useful in alerting you from which clock position enemy fighters were attacking. However, I found that when I heard the approaching fighter sound effects (generated from the main console), I would simply cycle through my gunners' positions to spot the attacking fighter.
man i love this era of gaming, so many games trying to do very cool and innovative stuff, be it a (heavily simplified) flight sim of B-17 operations or the Shuttle simulator on atari, you just didn't see much of this stuff in the NES/Master system era or beyond for some time.
Loved this game in 82, I was 11. I remember that you could decrease the number of bombs for more fuel, and drop the RPM’s down to extend the range. I remember I got good enough to carry three bombs and take out the three furthest targets, which was difficult to do without getting shot down before returning to England.
I'd imagine that speech would probably fill about 80% of the cartridge. We used to have an Intellivision console in the shop I worked at in the 80's and we had this cart, but in the 8 years I worked there we never sold it, it was there when I started in 1981 and it was still there when I left in 1989. No one in the UK had the console, it was more computers here, not even the NES or SNES were big here.
@@robertwilson3866 The keyboard add-on wasn’t even released (prompting an investigation into allegations of false advertising). It would have been awesome!
It’s a shame that the intellivoice wasn’t more successful because I think the voice sounds amazing for the time. But then again there is the problem of the voice usually being useless.
Even as a modern gamer I can't help but love this game. The game has a mystery to it that I can't explain. Maybe it's the timeless retro art style that would be loved even today, or maybe it's the fact that you have to use your imagination to try and fly the plane. Overall a magnificently made game!
Good comment 👍. I got this game for Christmas 1982, and the imagination factor was high. This was a very sophisticated game back in the day, and one of the best.
Holy crow! This game looks awesome! I'm old enough to have played this game when it came out, but I never owned the system, or knew anyone that did. Wish I had this growing up.
This game exists. It was made in 2000. It's called B-17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th. And it even has a remake/remaster that's being worked on. It just didn't release for Intellivision obviously.
I used to love getting the game box opening it up in the car and reading the manual on the way home. I couldn't wait to try it out and see the graphics in action. Back then if it looked better than a blob it was great graphics.
Seeing this has unlocked a memory....some kid whom wasn't really my friend showed me this, and then wouldn't let me play it....I really wanted too, mom and dad weren't the type to buy game console. Might hunt around for the 2024 version of this now and finally have a go.
Used to have a friend over and we'd play all night. One of us would fly and bomb and the other would man the guns. We'd play for hours. Couple a 12 year olds fighting Nazi's in the sky's over Europe. We were there. Good times.
The amount of simulation for the time is pretty impressive. You have to plan your sortie balancing fuel with making sure you have enough bombs. Deal with enemy fighters as a turret gunner at points. Scan the terrain below for your target based on your intel when you're near it.
I remember there used to be a random glitch, that would ensure the bomber could carry a virtually inexhaustible supply of bombs and fuel to just about clear the map of targets.
I think I just realized after all these years that the clicking noise on the map screen is supposed to be typewriters and isn't just a random audio artifact from our copy of the game. Ah ha moment.
I played this game so much I wore out the plastic slide-in card that covered the controller keypad. I convinced my mom that it was a WWII educational game.
Year I was born but my brother got this for Christmas when he was kid and he used to make me cry playing "Boxing!". But it created a monster. As hard-core a gamer as I was during Nintendo 8 bit era.
Was playing this very game on my brothers Intellivision when all of a sudden a B-17 made a low pass over my parents house heading to an airshow near us. I ran outside to the backyard just in time to see the most majestic low pass.
This is what im really starting to appreciate about the intellivision: the depth of the games was much greater than on the atari vcs and provided an experience comparable to the computer titles of the time but on console. Horrid controller mind
Only time I ever got to try this was in a long gone department store near where I live now, but was visiting cousins at the time. That was over 40 years ago, and it was one of the first games I’d ever played outside of a crude & blocky 10-in-1 sports game box from Binatone here in the UK. These games look archaic and so simple now, but a lot of them still have more playability and challenge than today’s bloated high definition titles. No wonder recreations of old Commodore, Atari, Nintendo and Sega machines sell so well.
Ha, interesting... I have never seen the gameplay of this game before, since the Angry Video Game Nerd never bothered to show it. Now having seen it, this looks like a surprisingly complex for an Intellivision game. Not a game that a child with a limited patience would enjoy, but I can see this appealing to adults. Also, even though the graphics are hardly top notch, they seem to be decent enough so that you can understand what you are looking for without having to rely too much on your imagination.
I'm 33, and wanting to try this, opposed to getting a headset & corresponding Baby Hands VR app for my Smartphone, and *STILL* waiting for the daydream I have - where my "Mother" finally hears *MY* story & gets reprimanded at long last - to come true!!!!
I just realized *who* the southern voice is supposed to emulate. Major Kong from "Dr. Strangelove." You think about it, there's not a lot of Southern-accented bombers in major movies... especially one who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!
I had an Atari, but my buddy had an Intellivision. This game blew me away at the time. I was 8, maybe 9. It was simply on a different level. Maybe like comparing the capabilities of a PC game to a console game. It was several steps being what I could play at home. Lol 😂😂😂😂
My dad LOVED this game. We got the voice module and the first time we heard "BEE SEVENTEEN BAWMUUR" we were excited. My mom cringed. She hated the fake Southern accents. One night my dad was up until almost 2 am playing this. I could barely get any sleep because even with the sound turned down the voices were annoying. My mom finally got of bed to yell at my dad.
"Why are you still up playing with that?"
My dad never missed an opportunity for a witty return.
"I have to make the world safe for democracy."
I know a guy with that accent IRL.
Love this game!
That is amazing! 🤣
"I have to make the world safe for democracy." That's a strong statement, I love it. Greetings to your great dad.
😂🤣😂 I have to make the world safe for democracy!
Mattel Electronic Presents:
*BEEEE SEVEANN TEEEEEN BAWMBUUUR*
That never gets old 😂
What is that?, a corrupt polítics name?
BAY SEBUMTAYN BALLLLLMER
Never had a chance to ever play this game. But the historical significance of this game is nothing to scoff at. This game was one of the first games if not the first game to have a voice added in the game.
Go find a plug and play and play it. Do yourself a favor! It's a lot of fun
Crap... I'm old. I'm 52 in 2022! I was a teen in South America Playing this game at my buddy's house. It was light yrs ahead of it's time and we would spend every weekend playin it. Glad I was able to see the beginning of it all.
Ever wonder where there hell the time went? I’m 52 now and I’d trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday.
Thank you for posting this! My Dad would love playing this game & I would love to watch him. My father passed in 2000 & B-17 Bauuuuumer is a magical memory.
My Dad was the same. He loved this game. He went for the faraway targets mostly. Aaah, those good old days. I even used to bomb my airfield for a laugh.
Sorry about your father. My dad passed in 2020. We used to play Sea Battle together when I was a kid…I thought things would last forever.
@@themig71In a way they do. You are what your dad taught you. Things, knowledge lives forever.
"But only a few games were compatible, like B-17 Bomber. 0:00
0:02 BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEN BAWWMBER 0:02
Alright, f*ck the game, let's try Bomb Squad."
"Tawrgeet those"
"Bawms awaayyy"
"That wuz own tawrgeet"
LOL That's the dumbest voice i've ever heard xD
The hours and hours I put into playing this game - good times. Thanks for this.
Hearing the intro always makes me think of AVGN’s hilarious impression of the synthesis module’s voice.
Fun fact: those garbled-beyond-recognition voices are [allegedly] Philip Proctor and Phil Austin, members of the Firesign Theatre who're responsible for some of the funniest surreal comedy ever recorded. Proctor's actually had an impressively long career in voice acting (albeit in mostly minor roles) and is joined by Firesign founder, Peter Bergman on another Voice Synthesis game, Bomb Squad
The code! The code! Figure out the code!
That voice at the beginning always cracks me up with how country it is... kinda amazing the Intellivoice could do all those different voices and accents and stuff!
When I was a kid I played in practice mode just so I could bomb everything and clear out Europe. I also tried bombing England with everything I had just to see how negative the score could go and the weird characters they would show as the score went down. Fun times.
might want to get an ancestry test to see if you have any irish in you.
That .. Was. ...Nawt ... A .... Target!
*BeE sEvEnTeEn BawMuUr*
BEEEE SHHHEVENTEEEN BALLLMER
BEEEE SHEVENTEEN BAWMER
BAUM SQWUD
The second I saw this screen, 40 years or more have pasted, I knew exactly what was coming next, beee seventeen baawwwwwmer. LOVED this game.
I went to visit my grandma in 96, I was 15, I stayed at their house for a week...One long week... after a few days she told me about the video game that they had and it was this game. All I remember was the B17 Bombeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrr LoL.
Seeing younger people appreciating this game in the comments is a great feeling
And funny running into you here of all videos lmfao
Thanks avgn
There's a super popular retro game satire channel called "angry video game nerd" and he did a video on this game aswell as the intellivision console
for a game from 1982 this looks very good and exciting
This takes me back the magic period between when the home gaming market crashed and right before Nintendo revived it. My father bought an intellivision on clearance and I loved playing this game and a few others.
I got this game during Christmas of 1982 and loved it. I didn't get the separately sold Intellivoice module right away but found it wasn't necessary to play this game. The module was especially useful in alerting you from which clock position enemy fighters were attacking. However, I found that when I heard the approaching fighter sound effects (generated from the main console), I would simply cycle through my gunners' positions to spot the attacking fighter.
Wow. That b17 climbs like a fighter!
man i love this era of gaming, so many games trying to do very cool and innovative stuff, be it a (heavily simplified) flight sim of B-17 operations or the Shuttle simulator on atari, you just didn't see much of this stuff in the NES/Master system era or beyond for some time.
Loved this game in 82, I was 11. I remember that you could decrease the number of bombs for more fuel, and drop the RPM’s down to extend the range. I remember I got good enough to carry three bombs and take out the three furthest targets, which was difficult to do without getting shot down before returning to England.
Same age, I used to float from max altitude without actually playing the game. 41 yrs ago man ..
I'd imagine that speech would probably fill about 80% of the cartridge. We used to have an Intellivision console in the shop I worked at in the 80's and we had this cart, but in the 8 years I worked there we never sold it, it was there when I started in 1981 and it was still there when I left in 1989. No one in the UK had the console, it was more computers here, not even the NES or SNES were big here.
Intellivision was the first 16 bit console. People weren't ready for it's power.
@@robertwilson3866 The keyboard add-on wasn’t even released (prompting an investigation into allegations of false advertising). It would have been awesome!
Most likely, it took up relatively little space, since most of the software required would have been in the add-on.
It’s a shame that the intellivoice wasn’t more successful because I think the voice sounds amazing for the time. But then again there is the problem of the voice usually being useless.
Even as a modern gamer I can't help but love this game. The game has a mystery to it that I can't explain. Maybe it's the timeless retro art style that would be loved even today, or maybe it's the fact that you have to use your imagination to try and fly the plane. Overall a magnificently made game!
Good comment 👍. I got this game for Christmas 1982, and the imagination factor was high. This was a very sophisticated game back in the day, and one of the best.
nothing was more exciting than the sound of the engines starting up preflight. holy cow for an 8 year old.
beeEEEEE SEventeeeEEEEN BAWMER
Holy crow! This game looks awesome! I'm old enough to have played this game when it came out, but I never owned the system, or knew anyone that did. Wish I had this growing up.
VO: *Mattel Electronics presents: BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER*
James: *BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER!!!*
VO: *BEEEEEEE-SEVENTEEN BALMER*
Those are some cheeky 109 pilots attacking you right off the east coast of Britain.
At least they're not ME-262s. Otherwise, that's just plain Nintendo Hard. :P
To me they look more like Focke-wulf 190s.
Such great childhood memories...loved this game. Thanks for posting!
My parents told me about this game, and now I want to see Intellevision 2, B-17 Bomber remastered.
B-29 Bomber
This game exists. It was made in 2000. It's called B-17 Flying Fortress The Mighty 8th. And it even has a remake/remaster that's being worked on. It just didn't release for Intellivision obviously.
Busted out laughing when I heard the computer southern voice
BAY SEVENTEEEEEEN BAWLMER. BAWMS AWAAAAAAAAY. THAYAT WAS AWN TAWRGYET
I used to love getting the game box opening it up in the car and reading the manual on the way home. I couldn't wait to try it out and see the graphics in action. Back then if it looked better than a blob it was great graphics.
Dang so this was like the precourser to b17 the mighty eighth. Also the true IFR experience flying wise.
Seeing this has unlocked a memory....some kid whom wasn't really my friend showed me this, and then wouldn't let me play it....I really wanted too, mom and dad weren't the type to buy game console. Might hunt around for the 2024 version of this now and finally have a go.
Rest in peace Uncle BB! We used to play this together when i was a little kid.😊
Used to have a friend over and we'd play all night. One of us would fly and bomb and the other would man the guns. We'd play for hours. Couple a 12 year olds fighting Nazi's in the sky's over Europe. We were there. Good times.
The amount of simulation for the time is pretty impressive. You have to plan your sortie balancing fuel with making sure you have enough bombs. Deal with enemy fighters as a turret gunner at points. Scan the terrain below for your target based on your intel when you're near it.
I remember there used to be a random glitch, that would ensure the bomber could carry a virtually inexhaustible supply of bombs and fuel to just about clear the map of targets.
Mattel Electronics presents: BEEE SEVENTEEN BAAHHMER
Dear, dear. The hours & hours of brain cells burned playing this game back in the day! ;)
That was a blast from the past THANKS!!!
The voice actor for the pilot is Phil Proctor
I think I just realized after all these years that the clicking noise on the map screen is supposed to be typewriters and isn't just a random audio artifact from our copy of the game. Ah ha moment.
I always thought my game was glitching,
What clicking noise???
0:02 thanks avgn
Sweet gameplay Phil!
Watch out for FLAK!
My favorite phrase from the game
I played this game so much I wore out the plastic slide-in card that covered the controller keypad. I convinced my mom that it was a WWII educational game.
It kinda was educational. Very comprehensive sim for its day.
Year I was born but my brother got this for Christmas when he was kid and he used to make me cry playing "Boxing!". But it created a monster. As hard-core a gamer as I was during Nintendo 8 bit era.
Was playing this very game on my brothers Intellivision when all of a sudden a B-17 made a low pass over my parents house heading to an airshow near us. I ran outside to the backyard just in time to see the most majestic low pass.
I love this! My uncle had this.
"One .45 caliber handgun, one packet of chewing gum..."
The mayday message is stressing my head off!
LOL, the Intellivision voice is clearly from Texas. At 5:15 "That wuz owooooon Towuurrgit" 🤠
I remember playing this game while watching the movie "They Call Me Bruce?" on Showtime
One of my favorites next to Sea Battle .
It's to bad James never actually got to the game I could totally see him rage at this
I still have my Intellivision and Intellivoice almost every game.
Had this game but I couldn't figure out how to play it because I was so young
I love AVGN
I remember when this was cutting-edge. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Never imagined this to be a simulation, reminds me of Silent Service!
I played this at my girlfriend's house. My favorite phrase was, "Watch out for flack!"
Brings back memories
This is what im really starting to appreciate about the intellivision: the depth of the games was much greater than on the atari vcs and provided an experience comparable to the computer titles of the time but on console.
Horrid controller mind
So many memories of an 7th grader me playing this.
Me and Murphy played this at his house. Always cracked up at B 17 boumer. Dammit man!!
Loved this game had so many great missions
Gomer Pyle on a Bomber crew!
Only time I ever got to try this was in a long gone department store near where I live now, but was visiting cousins at the time.
That was over 40 years ago, and it was one of the first games I’d ever played outside of a crude & blocky 10-in-1 sports game box from Binatone here in the UK.
These games look archaic and so simple now, but a lot of them still have more playability and challenge than today’s bloated high definition titles.
No wonder recreations of old Commodore, Atari, Nintendo and Sega machines sell so well.
How can I get my computer to make this exact voice? I want that chunky sound.
Ha, interesting... I have never seen the gameplay of this game before, since the Angry Video Game Nerd never bothered to show it. Now having seen it, this looks like a surprisingly complex for an Intellivision game. Not a game that a child with a limited patience would enjoy, but I can see this appealing to adults. Also, even though the graphics are hardly top notch, they seem to be decent enough so that you can understand what you are looking for without having to rely too much on your imagination.
I'm 33, and wanting to try this, opposed to getting a headset & corresponding Baby Hands VR app for my Smartphone, and *STILL* waiting for the daydream I have - where my "Mother" finally hears *MY* story & gets reprimanded at long last - to come true!!!!
I just realized *who* the southern voice is supposed to emulate. Major Kong from "Dr. Strangelove." You think about it, there's not a lot of Southern-accented bombers in major movies... especially one who learned to stop worrying and love the bomb!
I had an Atari, but my buddy had an Intellivision. This game blew me away at the time. I was 8, maybe 9. It was simply on a different level. Maybe like comparing the capabilities of a PC game to a console game. It was several steps being what I could play at home. Lol 😂😂😂😂
My brother and I loved this game
I always wanted Intellivoice for this game.
Very impressive speech synth
If you do complete the game...
GAME OVER
THE GERMANS REFUSED TO SURRENDER
biii seventeeen bombaaa
Y'all come back naw, y'hear.
Looks like a challenging game!
Classic!!
Mayday...
how would anything climb to 10000ft going 100mph?
DCS World, but it’s on Intellivision. ;)
War Thunder, but where the bomber actually gets to bomb.
Looks like a fun game
BOMBS AWAY!!!!
Garrett Woolf here and Mattel Electronics presents B-17 Bomber 0:00
Pretty dang impressive for a video game this ancient to do a southern accent
for a console made in 79, and the game made in 81, it really is impressive.
even the *BEESEVENTEENBAUMMER!!*
Nobody:
B17 bomber: BEEE SEVENTEEN BAWWWWMBER
go away
Hated once your map say the target is there you had to click off bomber mode and back on
'Tel Electronics presents...
*BAAY SEVENTAYHN BAWMBR*
AVGN brought me here
Same. Wanted to see more of the game besides just the title screen lol
The bombardier sounds like Slim Pickens
I dare someone to make it say "iF yOu dOnT HavE my MoNeY, You aRE Mine!"
AVGN: "BEEEEEEEEEEEE SEVENTEEEEEEN BAWWWWWWWWMBER!"
... Is that Phil Austin or Phil Proctor? I'm pretty sure it wasn't Peter Bergman.
Proctor is the pilot & Austin is the bombers
"You can make fun of their controllers if you must, but their sports games are really good."