Intellivision Flashback

[Macace911]

Picked up one of these for Xmas from Dollar General (they were half off at $20!).  The Dollar General version has a 61st game too, the original 2 player baseball game.  I must say this controller is 10 times better than I expected.  Sounds are off in some games as noted, but much better than I expected.  The controllers appear to have the atari 2600 joystick pinout.  So the question is, is there a way to plug this into a PC to get the best of both worlds (superior emulation with a proper controller)?

You can plug the controllers in to your PC and use an emulator. You can get the adapter here. http://www.intellivision.us/intvgames/interface/interface.php

[ahofle]

Thanks, I may give that a try.  Hopefully the intv flashback controller works with it -- looks like the Coleco Flashback controllers work too.

[deadmoney5]

I got this for Christmas as well...The controllers seem the same to me.  Sucks that they didn't include all of the overlays, but you can purchase them on their site if you really want.

I like how you can also go to their website to read the actual manuals.  They have pdfs of all of the manuals and overlays.

Haven't played a whole bunch, but I did play a game of Astrosmash and Bomb Squad (with voice).

Definitely a cool gift for sure.  i hadn't played these games in 30 years.

[ahofle]

FYI Sam's club has both the Intellivision and ColecoVision Flashback on sale for just under $20.  I just picked up the coleco...the controller is equally amazing.  It's too bad the only way to interface these to PC is with a $60 eyesore of an adapter!

[jaharr01]

There are a lot of obese kids in that commercial

Yeah but the real fat kid eating the cereal, I think is the guy later with with the hot wife and the long hair. See it just goes to show you that even fat kids can grow up and have hot a --I'm attempting to get by the auto-censor and should be beaten after I re-read the rules-- wife.

[wp34]

FYI Sam's club has both the Intellivision and ColecoVision Flashback on sale for just under $20.  I just picked up the coleco...the controller is equally amazing.  It's too bad the only way to interface these to PC is with a $60 eyesore of an adapter!

Thanks.   

[Loafmeister]

Are these not available on Sam's Club website?  I can not find any results searching for Flashback or Coleco, etc.  In store only?

Note:  I'm Canadian, I don't think we have these stores up here in igloo land, therefore why I'm searching online.