It did sell like hotcakes. There was a game very similar to this one called Super Mario Bros. that came out on the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Honestly, this single game alone would have eaten heavily into Atari's market share. If they had pumped out 2 or 3 games of this quality within the first couple of years of the system's launch, the 2600 may have never gotten off the ground.

​@@octonoozleI don't know why you said this to me. Please return your muffins to your supervisors

It’s due in large part to how much better modern hobbiest programers understand the hardware limitations than programers of the era did. Of course time also plays a part as this probably took years to program compared to many Official Games were developed in a matter of weeks and forced out the door long before the designers were ready.

There's really no way the original Intellivision developers could have made something like this for one simple reason, it didn't exist. What I mean is that SMB1 was a revelation of game design that didn't exist back then until it did. No one had ever made a game that played or looked like SMB1 before. It brought a brand new design to 2D platformers never seen before. Just like with SM64 revolutionizing 3D platformers at the time, SMB1 did the same for 2D platformers. You could argue that everything before it was just experimentation until SMB1 got it right.

I'm impressed with his moustache too.. Handlebar style! 😃

The best one ever is Space Harrier on the Atari 8-bit machine

@@DanielSong39 I'll check that one out at some point - thanks.

Think this is good...check out Intellivania...Castlevania copy.

The AY-3-8910 PSG and its variants are _very_ capable sound chips.. They were used in all sorts of classic arcade games and in other game consoles (Vectrex, MSX, etc). ;-)

I noticed that too! If this were on something like a C64 it would sound very commodore-like. But this.. it sounds VERY close to the NES!

cause the intellivision can do square waves..

@@jc_dogen It's not just square waves. It's square waves of different duty cycles + triangle waves + white noise. It's pretty impressive that the Intellivision could do all of that in 1979.

@@mightyrobot42 well it's got an AY

Intellivision was the first console with hardware smooth scrolling, only other thing that had it around the same time was the Atari 8-bit computers. No idea why you never saw sidescrolling platformers on the system even when they started making more games for it in the mid 80s...

@@espfusion There were some side-scrolling and vertical-scrolling games, though, just not any platformers. I never cared for side-scrolling platformers, though. I personally prefer Intellivision (and other systems--Atari [all], Commodore 64, Apple II, Amiga, Vectrex, etc.) over the NES by far.

@@espfusionHow do you scroll if the size of the nametable is not larger than the background?

@@pr1stvan There's an option to mask off 8 pixels on one of the horizontal edges, so in that sense it's slightly larger.

It's insanely impressive and at the same time, you can see some of the limitations of the hardware. Only mario has a sprite with more than 1 color. The way the graphics are rendered (background, then sprites) to give the illusion of depth is fascinating. Sound is amazing, arguably better than the NES. Game runs smooth. Controls I can't stay, but SMB was always a bit stiff. We even have a bit of an animation of the bowser fireballs. Fewer colors than NEW, as well, but excellent graphics / hue of sprites nonetheless

Seeing this game on a console just a tad more capable than the Atari VCS is amazing!

@@mchenrynick I'd say this proves that it's much more than a tad more capable than the VCS. Probably they didn't know how to push it back on its day or just wasn't financially viable

@@javierespinazopagan3172also don’t forget the price of cart memory. A cart back then of this size would be like the cost of 5 whole consoles

not even close dude... nes blows this thing out of the water

Just square waves, if a game system has sound it can do square waves

The bigger obstacle in the 70s-80s was the price of RAM/ROM. A typical Intellivision cartridge was only 4KB back then. This ROM/cartridge clocks in at 67 KB so can pack a lot more in. But is still super impressive. There are similar efforts done even for Atari 2600 (a Sonic clone I've played on the 2600 was great).

The Intellivision was the first 16-bit console and the first console to have a BIOS. It used a CP1610. but it was held back by lack of modern programming tools and small cartidge ROMs. One of the tricks it could pull off was having the CPU directly move graphics around in VRAM, back in the day which was used to generate basically unlimited moving objects without flicker but you can do so much more with it even simple parallax effects (see Kai Magazine's Anthropormorphic Force for an example of this)

@@MattPilz would the rom even physically fit? what was the biggest chip back then, 8kbit?

@GigsVT These modern games use memory bank switching so they can feed the limits with a lot of different data from much larger capacity ROMs. In the original era 24K ROMs were the limit and only a few games ever made to that size since it was much more costly. So most did use 4/8KB chips.

The Crash really hurt everyone. On the Atari side, the 5200 wouldn’t have been cancelled quickly so Dan Kramer would’ve had time to produce the ProLine Driving Controller - based upon Atari’s arcade Pole Position steering wheel/pedals/shifter - and the ProLine Yoke Controller - based upon Atari’s arcade Star Wars Yoke - right after the release of his CX52 Trak-Ball Controller. The 5200 would’ve surpassed the Colecovision’s sales shortly and GCC probably would’ve pitched the MARIA and GUMBY chips as add-ons for the 5200 instead of for the 7800 console. The self-centering CX52J Joysticks would’ve been released. The Atari/Androbot AndroMan interactive robot would’ve been released for the 2600, 5200, etc. The Atari Adventure stores - think the later Apple Stores but being exclusively Atari from arcade to computers - would’ve opened. The Atari/Lucasfilm joint venture would’ve remained so Lucasfilm Games wouldn’t have been independent. The 1400XL and 1450XLD computers wouldn’t have been cancelled. The 1600XL would’ve also been released. Atari would’ve taken control of Amiga Corp and released the 16-Bit “Mickey” console using the Amiga Lorraine chipset for Christmas 1985 followed by the 1800XL computers using that same chipset shortly thereafter. The arcade division would’ve never become a separate company. And the AtariTel video phones would’ve been released instead of sold off to Mitsubishi and released as the Mitsubishi Lumia phone line….

Until now I didn't think it could!

Until now I thought the NES was the first console that was capable of side scrolling like that.

I remember programming my own SMB game. I tried my best to copy the physics as accurate as I can. I notice many of the glitches do happen. Like the way mario will wobble when you hit the brick at a certain angle. But I can't remember if I was able to copy the 100 lives trick, like having to bounce on the turtle forever. I also tried doing Street Fighter. You just have to program the input commands for the special moves and the combos will work just like the arcade.

Because this looks so accurate, I have to wonder if they started with a disassembly of the NES ROM and then ported it to work on the Intellivision hardware. If that's the case, the minus world may be possible but I'm not sure whether or not it would lead to the same water level.

It's going to be one hell of a wait until SMB3 though.

@@TheatreStyle Yeah, SMB 3 is going to have to make some serious cutbacks even with the programming magic this guy has spun up. SMB 3 would be nowhere near possible even on a stock 1983-1985 NES cartridge, it and most other late 1980s and later NES games were packing some serious enhancement chips in their carts. October 26, 2023 3:19 am

Why would you hold off on buying one for 40 years when they've always been cheap? In fact, the NES was cheaper at launch than the Intellivision was when it died. You do you, but weird flex.

Do you think Zelda could work if it would be possible to make an aftermarket save pak if you can't do batteries directly in an Intellevision?

I wish I was as close as you are lol. I make a 10 hour drive each year...

And I mention this in the video with a video link to the castlevania game in the description ;)

There may or may not be a Mega Man port in the works. ;-)

No worries!

@@johnhancockretro 😄😄😄🙏🏻

I don’t think it is. Yes works on original intellivision

@johnhancockretro I was asking because the original did need a RAM upgrade for some wares. Thanks for the answer and the video. :)

Glad you liked it!

Same here Savitor! I made sure to grab it lol.

Glad you enjoy it!

It's because Nintendo's lawyers are rat bastards and will C&D anywhere they know offers it.

Because of greedy Evil Nintendo won't allow it and would come after who ever managed to post a link to the ROM and would make KZfaq remove the post to any link to download the ROM.

Welcome aboard!