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Old 12-10-2003, 12:54 PM   #1
vsp
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Intellivision overload

As someone whose first game console was a Mattel Intellivision, I'm drooling over a couple of newly released retrogaming products. Now all I have to do is decide which option(s) to take...

<b><a href="http://www.intellivisionlives.com/retrotopia/ps2xbox.shtml">'Intellivision Lives'</a> for PS2, coming for Xbox after Xmas</b>

Pros:
* Kitschy 80's-style "Hal's Pizza" menu system
* Video interviews, unlockables, history stuff
* 60+ games, including the voice-synth games
* It's $20, with the original designers getting a cut

Cons:
* Licenced games (AD&D, Tron, Lock'n'Chase, Burgertime, Bump'n'Jump) aren't included
* The controls have been hacked to better fit a PS2 controller
* Third-party games (Imagic, Activision, etc.) are missing

<b><a href="http://www.intellivisionlives.com/retrotopia/direct2tv.shtml">Intellivision 25</a> direct-to-TV handheld </b>

Pros:
* No system required (great, since my wife just got Fatal Frame 2 and will thus have custody of the PS2 for a while)
* Nifty gift idea for my niece
* Some of the better games (Astrosmash, Shark! Shark!, Thin Ice, Tower of Doom) included
* It's $20, with the original designers getting a cut

Cons:
* Only 25 games, and third-party games are still missing
* Controls are hacked even more severely
* Uses four AA batteries

<b>Dragging my old Intellivision out of storage</b>
Pros:
* It's already paid for
* I own many of the "missing" games, some of which were the best on the system (Tron Deadly Discs, the AD&D games, Burgertime, etc.)
* Original controllers

Cons:
* A trip to Radio Shack to buy a newer GAME<->TV switchbox
* The designers get diddly, and I sorta like to monetarily reward companies that take a chance on commercial retrogaming releases
* It's one more thing that'll take up space in my apartment
* None of the unreleased games, obviously

<b><a href="http://www.zophar.net/ivision.html">Intellivision emulation</a></b>

Pros:
* I have all the ROMs already, including unreleased games
* No switchbox or space required
* It's free

Cons:
* The designers will go broke and live in boxes
* Playing these games on my computer keyboard will probably suh-diddly-uck

Decisions, decisions...
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