So many references in here. I usually hate that kind of pandering, but still needed to point out:
David statue on coffee table (reference to Goonies?)
NES and Intellivision (c'mon, no one kept the latter around after '84).
R2D2 on coffee table
Stupid, obvious pro-wrestler action figure is stupid (ooooh yeah!)
TMNT comic is possibly anachronistic

This video is so pandering and silly, but the song is damn complex. Childs first feelings of love and sexuality combined with the witnessing of violence and murder. Now that I type that, it probably defines far more modern experiences than I realize.

The years after the crash but before the appearance of Nintendo were Golden Years for my brother and me. We were picking up cartridges for our Intellivision for a dollar a piece (or less) at retail stores and sometimes for free at local garage sales. I know our game library was over 50 games at one point, which as kids we never would have been able to afford if not for the crash.

We also switched to PC gaming. My dad received one of the very first laptops (with an LCD screen) from his job and I managed to get Bard's Tale up and running on it. Some of my friends went the Commodore 64 route.

So after the crash, we never stopped gaming, really, and just transitioned to the NES when it came out. But of course games became more expensive then. We gave up on owning anything but the most popular games (Mario, Zelda, etc.) and instead would swap games with classmates to try out other stuff. Mom and pop used games stores also popped up around that time and usually we could trade in an old game for a new one with an out-of-pocket expense at around $5, which was around my weekly allowance at the time and let me get a new game once a week.

Just picked this up after watching this clip. Having a blast so far. I played Treasure of Tarmin on the old Intellivision game system; nice to see it again with a fresh coat of paint. I missed you, old friend.

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I'm a big fan of Google products- so I'm very interested in the phone. The software sounds great- especially the built in navigation. The industrial design though, looks like a retro brick - and would be at home in the first Matrix movie. Also what's up with the gold thumb controller on the right-hand side? It reminds me of an Intellivision joypad.

>> ^StukaFox:
I had an Intelivision.


Me too. It's shit like this that makes me miss those days. I'd almost want to say that the Intellivision was the apex of console gaming, and it's only been downhill from there.

I had an Intellivision, don't remember having that game though

Heh, I remember this. My brother and I thought it was great that we could get Intellivision games for $5, but we were bummed that no new software was coming out. That's why as soon as the NES came out we saved up our allowances to get one.

Believe it or not, guys like Tod Frye are still around making games. He worked at 3DO a few years ago when I was there. Can you imagine how trippy that must be to go from writing games like Pac-Man on the 2600 all the way through to the current bleeding edge stuff?

I always felt the games for Intellivision were 100 times better than anything that appeared on the 2600. Utopia (the first console RTS ever), Tron Deadly Discs, and Star Strike were fantastic. My brother and I were playing the Intellivision even after the original NES came out--it didn't hurt that you could find games for like $5 after Mattel discontinued the system. We learned how to do spot repairs on the controllers (the discs would get out of alignment easily) but eventually something internal went and we finally had to junk it. Thank god for emulators though.

I had an aquaintance with an intellivision, that was close enough for me to the device. The controllers just sucked. (He also had the "Big Trak" truck which you could program with the keypad in its truck bed.) I was into Atari 2600.

Yeah but it's not innovative to be the first to do something right... Utopia for the Intellivision was the first Sim City type game.

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Good memories of going to Mark Wiltfongs to play Intellivision. He had a little ?Big Track? as well, it was like a toy truck that you programmed on a keypad right on its back.

First video game I ever rented was Pitfall for Intellivision. Good ol' 1983.

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I still remember those controllers with the shiny joy-disks. The technology of the Intellivision was arguably better than the 2600, but I think the system was let down by the game quality.

I think this game in particular was in response to Atari's way cool game "Adventure". Oh, Warren Robinette - where have you gone when we need you.

We were the cool family on the block because we had Intellivision instead of Atari.