Intellivision Lives

Intellivision Lives, is a collection of over 60 Intellivision games. What is that you are not asking yourself. It's an old gaming console from a zillion years ago. It was one thing as a kid I dreamed of owning for what seemed like years. Then I got one, and had a blast on a few of the games. They came on a cartridge so were not cheap, but were fun all the same. My all time favourite being Auto Racing. A top down car racing game, for one or two people. Great fun skidding about, and even managed to perfect a full 360 on certain corners (as I spent way too much time on this game). The other one I really remember was Hockey. Lots of slidey goal scoring action here, but a bonus consisting of being able to madly swing the stick and knock opponents over! Lots of laughs.

The Intellivision Lives collection is great, and seems to play just like the original. Space Hawk, and Astrosmash were my other games I liked. I seem to remember one called Frog Bog, but don't think I purchased that one myself, as it consisted entirely of pressing ONE button to launch a frog from one lily pad to another, to catch flies. Not my thing.

Space Hawk was an Asteroids rip off, and Astrosmash was similar. Good games, endless levels. Of course there was Soccer which came with it, and I remember playing Lock and Chase, which is like Pac Man. I never did get as far as getting the speech unit for it, or the promised keyboard, to turn it into a full computer.

This Playstation 2 collection is great, apart from one bit of buggery with it. There are some games which for no reason REQUIRE two players. So my trip down memory lane was cut off when I tried to play Auto Racing and found you need TWO PEOPLE! The logic seems flawed;
People that purchase this collection are bound to be adults looking to replay some of their youth. It would be highly unlikely that they would share a household with anyone that actually owned an Intellivision and/or would like to play them in this day and age. So come on chaps, get a patch out for it or something so you can play single player versions of all the games! PLEASE?

In the meantime, go here for some free Intellivsion downloads. A few of the games to be playing in a mo, but for ever and ever and ever.



The Intellivision, anyone remember it? Oh ok, I thought not :(