Imagine 16 bit consoles coming out in the early 80's like that

We had a store called Odd Lot that was filled with heavily discounted video games. Intellivision games and the add-on modules for the Intellivision 2 were in the shelves as well. Bought a ton of games back then dirt cheap and had a few of the add-on modules as well.

I remember seeing a short commercial for the Intellivision III which featured Plimpton with the new baseball game playing on a monitor. I never saw it again and no one else seems to recall ever seeing it.

prpbably the best Intellivision 3 overview online, I have watched it several times since you posted it.

Makes sense they were going with joysticks over the disc pad. Since the 5200 and Coleco "which were newer" used sticks. And ppl, especially in the states, where use to joysticks like the arcade. And 2600 joystick was still a fav. Back when I got Nintendo my family made fun of its controller "where's the joystick?" they said. Wasnt until the 90s the directional pad became the norm over here.

My kid and I recently bought The400 and wow it’s so much fun to play games like in this video.

The Intellivision was my first game console. I loved it! I used to play Baseball by myself with a hand on each contoller and I could bat and field at the same time! I loved the disc controllers and the overlays.

The 5200 CAN output 320*192, had 256 colors, and more sprites could be made via mid-line sprite moving.

all my friends grew up with Sega and super Nintendo's. I grew up with an Intellivision II. I loved it.

Probably should do another one on the Intellivison Amico - cause that thing ain’t coming out either!

That commercial in the beginning is great

Intellivision baseball 1979 is still the coolest baseball game I've ever played

Other than the at the time, the video game crash in the US was partially due to the recession, I think this all also follows what I call the short throw rule: Say you're a company that's about to launch a new product, your customer base is eager to buy it up, then within less than 5 years, it's dead in the water. Or you were too eager and bought an ADAM only to find it bulk erased your entire 80s mixtape collection because you left it next to the printer when you turned it on. That's what I heard at least, all I had was a woodgrain VCS,

Notice there's no Tommy tallarico at the intv photo op.....what games did they make for NES....just monster truck ranger

We had an Atari VCS back then, but I'd always wanted an Intellivision. Finally picked up a Sear's Super Video Arcade in 1984 that was on clearance price of $30. I still have the system but it is in rough shape.

Great Video!

Incredible video. thank you

Woah, that ad has the SNAFU song!

Magnavox Odyssey² released in 1978 was "the first credible rival" to Atari's 1977 system. Some of their games looked and played better than Atari's games from 1977-8. Later, Atari then went to 4K ROMs and put out games with better graphics while Odyssey² games didn't get any better. Magnavox would sell only 1 million consoles.

Great video. “Now, we eagerly await the results.” 😂😂😂

Sold my mint/CIB Intellivision II, along with mint/CIB collection of, at least, a dozen games at a garage sale in '92 for a staggering $55.00! 😵‍💫 BTW, knowing what we know now, that resounding thud heard at the end of this video is deafening.

4:05 The clock speed for the intellivision is wrong it's 895khz not 1mhz. A 3.56mhz CP-1610 and a full 16-bit buss would have allowed for many more on screen objects than the sprites per scanline would suggest because Intellivision games made heavy use of GRAM sequencing to generate moving objects that were not actually sprites and not subject to sprite / scanline limits.

TRON DEADLY DISC, TRON MAZE-A-TRON & TRON SOLAR SAILOR!!!!! Then, Space Spartains, Bomb Squad, B-17 Bomber 7 again Tron Solar Sailor!! I loved that system!! The D&D Games shit!!!!

keep waiting for that Amico amigo.

Fun fact; the original proposed name for the console was the Intellivision Premico

Very cool video be on television was before my time so I didn't know much about it

Ad: "Intelivision...it's a bigger challange..." Me: yes largely due to that horrible controller! 😂

6:33 Is that the Intellivision model that was going into a certain car? Now that would have been cool!

8:20 "We are closed now!"

I'll be humming that opening tune when I'm brushing my teeth tomorrow morning...

About those Amico results...

Will you be creating a follow-up on the Amico system? What a sad ending to a company with such a storied history...

Quero comprar o intellevision 3 como faço

Keith is turning over in his grave when he heard about what tallarico did

I can't wait till the amico ships, I'm gonna take the brick they Put in the box and go find Tommy tallarico

👍 🍀 Interesting video. P.S. How do you get all these historical videos? Aren't you afraid any complaints concerning legal rights? I'm asking as I also have a small channel with similar subjects and it can be helpful fo rme.

Intellivision Lives!!!

Intellivision should release the Amico games on the Switch.

oh.. cool, the Intellivision 3.... I guess that's two Intellivision consoles now that will never be released

Seafood sale in two locations. Port Bender Village eh?

Interesting. The Intellivision 2 was like the Genesis model 2. Plays the same games and isn't any different except smaller and cheaper.. then all of a sudden Intellivision 3 was gonna be a whole new system? And plans of 4 already in place? I'ma watch this and learn something. Thx

Was the Amico ever released?

Now that I think of it, the Atari 5200 was essentially a dollar store discount bootleg low-budget version of both the ColecoVision and IntelliVision (1:13, 2:25, 3:13, 4:11, 6:13, 7:22, 8:24, 9:08, 11:11)

More like a history and future of mattel with their intelevision systems rather then a story of the intelevision 3.

I met Keith once.

The only good thing about the intellivision II, was that you could replace the controller. Considering how cheaply they were made I'm sure that happened a lot.

Amico Cult brought me here. Funny how the Amico maybe on here sooner than later - Later 👾

Next, you can do "The Story of the Unreleased Intellivision Amico"

Well, we all know how the Amico fiasco turned out...

And now we know Tommy screwed this up also

The decision _not_ to release the Intellivision 3 doomed the company: they embraced obsolescence. Note, also, that pretty much all of the Intellivision games that people appreciate today were published _very late_ in the system's lifespan, when it really looked pathetic compared to the other consoles it was competing against. Launching in 1979, the original Intellivision had a _very brief_ window of opportunity within which it could be competitive (without a hardware upgrade).

Just bought one

Very interesting how they set out a clear path into the future like that

Grace bros was a real store???

10.10.20 aaand still waiting.

What I want to know is what was Mattel Electronics spending money on in 1982-3 that made them lose so much money? Staff that made Intellivision games that few people bought? R&D for the Intellivision III? Their failed computer keyboard add-on? Porting Intellivision titles to Atari under the brand M-Network in 1982-3 seemed like a good idea. Didn't they make money selling to 10 million+ Atari owners compared to the final 3 million owners of Intellivision and Intellivision II? I bought Armor Ambush and Super Challenge Baseball new; although the "super challenge" was to find kids willing to learn the controls, since they didn't come with 1-player versions. But then no M-Network game sold 1 million copies as far as I know. Maybe they should have beaten the glut and released them in 1981? Clearly the Intellivision was in trouble from its release in 1979-80 because they didn't have the must-have game "Space Invaders." I think that quadrupled Atari sales in 1980. I think they had one last chance in 1982 if they'd licensed the must-have Pac-Man. Atari did and sold 2-5 million more consoles. Coleco licensed Donkey Kong and bundled it to sell 1 million ColecoVision consoles 1982 through Summer 1983. Burgertime was too little, too late and their ad scared little kids.

The Story of Unreleased Intellivision Amico

I wanted to like the Intellivision... I really did! But those disc controllers and that stock blocky font used in every game totally ruined the experience for me! Fortunately it's a lot more tolerable in emulation with modern gamepads.

Why haven't they produced a clone console?

what does she say at the start of your vids? "welcome bum runner"

Wait a minute...I thought the Colecovision was more powerful than the 5200. I have seen videos with people talking about this very subject and all of them have said the Colecovision was the strongest. I don't know very much about the second generation. I myself didn't start playing until 1986 with the Nes and Master System. What has always been a bit confusing too me is the move from 2nd to 3rd generation. The hardware is very similar and most of it is all 8-bit consoles with standard 8-bit busses. Is the Nes so much of an improvement that it should be counted as a generational leap? I would say the Master System might be the only one out of the lot that represented a huge leap forward. Addendum- You have a small mistake in this video (no big deal). The Nes launched in limited numbers in 1985. The Atari 7800 had a test launch in 1984 and at the time people liked it better than the Nes. Unfortunately, Trimiel decided to shelve the 7800 until 1987 long after Nintendo took a dominant lead over the market.

Intellivision SMOKED hard. As did Atari and all that came before it except 2 or 3 games and the rest were RIPOFF. Like a lot of the FINANCIAL SCAMS you have to go through on modern aaa titles

The Amico ended up being be biggest scram and fraud in videogame history.

I would bet this game was never even made because if it was somebody would have one. It would leak out.

Wow motorola 68000 the big processors for amiga

Is it cursed? Since we all know now the amico is vaporware

2:28 ColecoVision : am i a joke to you

1:55 the only reason this ad appears effective is because he's comparing two completely different games 😂 compare asteroids to astrosmash on intellivision and this wouldn't really work

But what about the Intellivision 4?

I am definitely buying the Amico

It’s pronounced Yuck -uh-Tan , or You coo tan.

George Plimpton was not a sports commentator, ever.

Moro no Brasil

Oh man, imagine if we could show them a 2022 baseball game and ask them which is closer to the real thing?

68K! PEA!

****spongebobsquarepants

wha

The Intellivision Flashback is truly awesome, and I look forward to Intellivision Amico.

KZfaq has unsubscribed me from your channel? Maybe their Android app is so slow and broken that it detected a hit on the unsubscribe button.

Intellivision was the most powerful console on the planet. There was a rumour at the time that they had harnessed the power of the sun

Yeah but Asteroids was fun to play, Star Struck? Not so much.

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Lol……so sad this story ends with the Amico…the biggest dumpster fire ever. The last words “and now we await the results”. Hahahahahahahaha

But you can literally buy the III on eBay. This must have been like the Atari 2700.

Amico is a scam