Intellivision® TV Commercial: Introducing Intellivision
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- This 1980 commercial introduced the Intellivision Video Game System.
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that computer keyboard is one of the rarest video game relecs out there today, only 1000 made, and then it was recalled. only a handful still exist, even fewer in full working order.
I remember seeing the adds for intellivision around Thanksgiving back in the day, and I'd sit there wide eyed and I'd turn around and my Dad would have this big grin on his face. Christmas Morning, we got an intellivision. I can't begin to count the number of hours I must have spent on the system.
Spent a good part of my childhood waiting for the Keyboard Component. It never came. :(
I worked for the Computique store chain in the early 80's when this was out. Mattel never did release the computer. Our store had a totally fake mockup of the computer keyboard unit that the game console went into. We ended up giving it away to somebody who asked for it, as I recall. A classic case of vaporware product.
The Keyboard Component was released and is highly collectible. The ~4000 that were released were recalled by Mattel. There are maybe a dozen in the collector's market these days. They sell for thousands of dollars and most have bad tape drives. What eventually saw wide release was the very different Enhanced Computer System (ECS), which is fairly common and can be had for less than $100 these days.
I still have my Intellivision after 36 years. I also have the keyboard component and the music synthesizer. I have a hundred games with the package intact. It was a great system. Better than Atari.
The old comments on this video say that the keyboard component never came out - but it did, and you have it? What's it like?
@@TenshiCat They never released it but a bunch of prototypes or test-production ones were made and went out. Is amazing they made a functioning thing but never sold it - perhaps it was developed too late to be relevant or too expensive? I think they had to make it to avoid being sued for false advertising. Anyway, you can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/gKPLySqUY30/v-deo.html
@@NicholasJankovic The Intellivision Computer Module (or ECS, Entertainment Computer System) was released in 1983. Not the Keyboard Component, which was too expensive to manufacture. But on the ECS I could program some neat games back in the days.
that's a great commercial. does the intellivision cook dinner for you too? after all, it can "change your life". that's the best commerical ever.
still waiting for my keybaord component :(
OMG. I remember havin the Intellivision back in late 81....or was it 82. Anyhoo, this takes me back to the days as a kid growin up in Hazel Crest (south of Chicago). We had football, baseball, poker & blackjack, etc.
OMG, when is it going to come, out?
If it's going to change my life, I want it.
Available at Macy's
wow to go back in time....lol flash back..i miss those old days
The keyboard component. Released by mail order and in limited quantities. They then released a cheap replacement and bought back the limited run. They later turned the keyboard component into cheap development kits.
LOL that fitness Programe is the old school Wii fit, Cheesy adds!
Ahhh the 80's! Me and my friends would play all day on this. NBA basketball was the best. Then I got intella-voice. B-17 Bomber was cool. FLAK FLAK! Loved football. You had to enter like 9 buttons to call a play. This game system kicked ATARI's ARSS at the time.
You can get those at Wal-Mart in the toy section they re-released them. The green football and the white basketball unit.
Yeah the Intellivsion Keyboard componant was the Duke Nukem Forever of it's day, but while Forever may see the light of day the Keyboard componant is still MIA
Mattel never did release the keyboard component for Intellivision. I think if I remember correctly, that Mattel had the keyboard part for a later video game system, the Aquarius.
What a treat for my left ear!
The first good question in a month, Thanks for asking! The pen can detect slight changes in the amout of light on the screen, As soon as you start up a lightpen game, you can see the tiny doy you use to control the game. The light pen sences this dot, and as the pen moves, and it can see the light fading in the corner of its "eye", and moves the dot accordingly. If you didnt know, the way you draw is by pressin the 3 button on the controller, which is in port one. Simple when you think about it.
I can't help wonder how things would have worked out had the keyboard component been released for wide consumption.
"You can quarterback an NFL team"? There were no NFL references in the game except the label on the cartridge and the title screen. You needed to use your imagination and make believe you were Terry Bradshaw.
Oh my god, we have one of those somewhere in our basement! Oooh I loved astrosmash and lock and chase. Loved shark shark too! hehehe, memories.
Intellivision really tried to emphasize their superiority in sports games (early Atari sportsgames were very weak, especially Football), but I never really gave a crap about sports games. I wanted to slay dragons and blast space mutants, damnit!
I know what you mean. I just sold mine with out really thinking hard about it. NOw I wish I had it and the 20+ games. I htin kin th enest few weeks I will go back to the place I sold it too and buy it back. And next time I will think really hard before seeling it. Miss it now that I have seen these commercials and will buy it again soon.
The Keyboard was eventually released, in limited quantities, only after the FTC got involved and hit Matelle with a 10,000 dollar a day fine until they released it. in the end Matelle cancelled the Keyboard
0:33 Jay Leno said at Mattel's Christmas party: "You know what the three big lies are, don't you? 'The check is in the mail', 'I'll still respect you in the morning', and 'The keyboard will be out in spring.'" The keyboard was available in limited areas before Mattel just gave up when the FTC began to investigate them for fraud and false advertising and the ECS was brought forth to achieve the purpose of having the Intellivision a personal home computer.
I still have my Intellivision II in working condition as well as Colecovision.
@cybersalad
As Mr. Leno once said: "You know what the three big lies are, don't you? 'The check is in the mail,' 'I'll still respect you in the morning,' and 'the Keyboard will be out in the spring.'"
The keyboard PC component was delayed and Mattel was sued. The system had better games then the Atari 2600 but it was so expensive for the time and most people just wanted basic arcade games.
They released a much slimmer keyboard in the final days of Intllivision. Along with Intellivoice! They were very disappointing to the buyer. Trust me. When it first came out it had the best sports games by far. Does anybody remember those portable hand-held electronic digital sports games by Matell?
the keyboard is intellivision's equivalent of Duke Nukem forever.
That's the one. Those were HOT SHIT back in 79. I took mine everywhere, until a big kid stole it from me at the roller rink. Pathetic!
It was avalible at macy's?! wow
Ya know what? I have a Vectrex question. How did that pen thing work? Looking at the Vectrex I have, there dosn't really seem to be any way for it to know where it's at (I don't have the pen myself).
Thanks!
OH MY GOD INTELLIVISION PC?? TELEPHONE?? FAX?? XEROX??? SIMULATOR???YES VERY GOOD LOVE INTELLIVISION, INTELLIVISION FOREVER.
The keyboard component was delayed for years because Mattel was making a killing on just the game console, and because test marketing proved it to be too expensive to mass-produce. They got sued for false advertising, and the FTC ordered Mattel to pay something like $10,000/day until a computer component for Inty hit store shelves. Their response was to release the less-impressive Entertainment Computer System in 1983.
Hah. They kept talking about this for years. It eventually did arrive in some form with the Aquarius module for the INTV II...but it wasn't the same.
HOWEVER--I do believe they produced a few of them...I think I have seen prototypes of this machine on the net.
Just imagine how large the box would have been--this thing must be MASSIVE. You put the entire Intellivision inside it!
@kurisux
I'm not a huge Intellivision fan. How did the keyboard shown differ from the one actualy sold? They look the same to me, other than I think the ones sold were slightly smaller, and had some blue buttons. If you asked me a Vectrex Question, THEN I would know what I'm talking about. With INTV I'm pretty much clueless on every thing other than the accesories.
amazing
Just because Atari had more games dose not make it better.
I think I'll take the iphone.
This never reached the market.
look on ebay for one.
Intellivision was not user friendly. Football alone had a learning curve that almost made it not fun to play. For those of us who grew up in the arcade days we wanted to play arcade style games at home. The Atari 2600 delivered that with a good selection of games. Pitfall, Berzerk, Combat, Missile Command, Asteroids, Night Driver, Defender, Donkey Kong and the classic Space Invaders to name a few. Intellivision was overpriced and overrated I'm glad I asked for an Atari for Christmas.
LOL
"the Intellivision Video Home Video System" WTF is up with the name?
You can buy a working Intellivision and games on ebay for about $25-$30. LOL
What a bargain
the computer was garbage, intellivoice a joke, and yet we all loved the main component, despite the disc controllers. ha ha ha long live intel.
Yeah, um, the revolution did happen. Hey wait.. no.