Intellivision Lives DS Rant

[rhoelsch]

I was very much anticipating this when it was announced back in '05, but Intellivision Productions never found a publisher willing to touch it.I emailed them about the status of this over a month ago, and got no response. Since it's been so long, I don't think it's gonna happen. Amazingly, there's no homebrew for it either. There's Colecovision, Atari2600, even SMS out there...there's PSPInt for the PSP, 4 different (albeit aging) emu's for the PC,and still no freaking solution for the DS. You'd think it'd be a no-brainer ;has got to be the best candidate for it, with the touchscreen and all, but it's on just about everything BUT the DS. I'm actually very surprised, and saddened, since I grew up playing the thing, and it's got a library of darn good games. Where's my portable Astrosmash, my Deadly Discs, my Burgertime, Snafu, Night Stalker, River Raid, Utopia, freaking Dreadnaught Factor? No one cares? All the dev's born after '88 or something? Anyone know a developer with some free time and the good taste to pay homage to a worthy system?

[shardian]

I have never played an intellivision. 

[rhoelsch]

You should! Filled the gap between those 3-dot 2600 games and the NES platform explosion, not just graphically, but with some pretty quality titles (not like Colecovision, which was great for some arcade ports, but really not much else)

[shardian]

Apparently someone somewhere has it.

[ChadTower]

Intellivision was the sports platform.  Atari was a general purpose "first and most popular" platform, Intellivision came along with a little more power and good sports games, and then Coleco came along with the first reasonable arcade ports.  The ColecoVision is actually nearly as powerful as the NES... some of the CV homebrews over the past couple of years aren't far off from NES games.  They are shorter, though.

[rhoelsch]

Shardian, that's the E3 demo from like '05...the real attraction here, rather than play an emu on a pc, is that the controller was very difficult to duplicate, particularly because of the overlays used. Intellivision Productions is just sitting on the thing, in lieu of a publisher, which if it hasn't happened in 2+ years.... it's just the lack of DS homebrew that gets me...oh, and the sports games were just amazing

[youki]

Intellivision was the first 16bit console. Yes, it had a 16bit processor!

His 16 ways controllers  was not easy to master on some game but it was fun.

I loved game list : Auto racing and Atlantis on that machine.

But for arcade Games , the coleco was really better.

[ChadTower]

A 16 bit CPU, yes, but 8 bit graphics RAM.  System memory was 16 bit, IIRC... can't remember if the bus was 8 bit or 16 bit.  8 bit bus wouldn't make a lot of sense but looking back a lot of systems were oddly set up like that.  At least it explains why it had decent gameplay power but such crappy graphics.