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Bit of nostalgia, "intellivoice" ad from 1982 Popular Science

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Crowquill:
Thanks for the scan.

To Mattel's credit, I think the coolest thing about the Intellivoice was that each game had a distinct character that talked differently. The southern drawl of B-17 Bomber comes to mind.

Space Spartans was all right, but I never figured out how to properly play Bomb Squad. Solar Sailer pretty much sucked altogether.

TOK:

--- Quote from: Bremil on February 17, 2007, 07:24:27 pm ---I still have my Intellivision and Intellivoice. The Intellivoice was cool but I didn't have any good games for it. I'm not any they made for it were that great.

--- End quote ---

I was just thinking that... My buddy had B-17 Bomber. I couldn't imagine a more boring game for a couple of kids.
Endless hours of watching the ground go by in a bombsite, actually hoping for an enemy attack. We'd get bored and just bomb the crap out of everything, and be scolded in that horrible electronic hick voice "Uh-Oh, that was naught a targeeet!"

RandyT:
You can't be too harsh on it though.  That was a time when computer speech was a new kind of magic.  I'm reminded of the the marquee on Stratovox that says "It talks!"  That silly fact prompted me to stuff quarters into it at the time (plus the game was pretty neat).  Check out the flyer to see what a big deal it was at the time.

I think prior to the Intellivoice, the best you could do was a hardware add-on for computers that cost hundreds of dollars, back at a time when that was serious money.  SAM was out for the C=64 in that same time-frame and wasn't cheap either, if you actually purchased it.   ;)

There was a lot of stuff in that era that relied almost entirely upon the fact that it hadn't been done before.  Think about how lousy the first "adult" or movie-license based games were.  They didn't have to be great to be memorable (or purchased).

RandyT

AMDman13:
Sweet! I'd have to say that Intellivision was always my favorite! I bought a working Intellivision about two years ago on Ebay for like 35.00 and it came with that ad as well as owners manual, Intellivoice, and about 25 games. My Dad and I will still get together for a game of Baseball! It was more fun than even the Coleco IMHO!

PoDunkMoFo:
The code, the code, figure out the code.  Waaaahhaaahahaha you'll never do it in time!!!!

Brings back memories.

Gotta say the first thing I did when I got "The Software Automatic Mouth" for me c64 was try and perfect as many of the swear words as I could.

Nothing like having your computer belt out Fuggg UUuuu Ashh whole at your friends.

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