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5 unusual facts about Intellivision


Buzz Bombers

Buzz Bombers is a single-player video game developed by Mattel Electronics for its Intellivision video game system and released in 1983.

Congo Bongo

The Intellivision port features all 4 of the game's original levels.

Deathmatch

On August 6, 1982, Intellivision game developers Russ Haft and Steve Montero challenged each other to a game of Bi-Planes, a 1981 Intellivision release in which multiple players control fighter planes with the primary purpose of repeatedly killing each other until a limit is reached.

Multicart

Although most commonly associated with NES and SNES, multicarts, both authorized and unauthorized, have appeared for many cartridge-based systems, among them the Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey 2, Sega Master System, Sega Genesis, Game Boy.

Realm of Impossibility

Music by Dave Warhol, who had worked with Daglow on the Intellivision game design team, was also added to the EA edition.


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Intellivision Lives!

The DS Intellivision Lives! includes over 60 different games including, Astrosmash, B-17 Bomber, Shark! Shark!, Motocross, Space Cadet and Thin Ice.

Intellivoice

Even a promotional giveaway of a free Intellivoice by mail with the purchase of an Intellivision Master Component failed to kick-start sales of the Intellivoice game titles; the fourth Intellivoice game release, Tron: Solar Sailer, sold 90,000 units.

The Intellivoice Voice Synthesis Module was an adapter for the Intellivision, Mattel's home gaming console, that utilized a voice synthesizer to generate audible speech.

Racing Destruction Set

Koenig, Goldman and Warhol had all worked for the Intellivision game design team at Mattel during the early 1980s, where Koenig had programmed the Intellivision Motocross game.

Space Hawk

The game was re-released as part of the Intellivision Lives! collection for personal computers and newer-generation game consoles, and in March 2010, Space Hawk was one of the launch titles for Microsoft's Game Room service on its Xbox 360 console and on Games for Windows Live and soon Windows Phone.

Tron: Solar Sailer

Tron: Solar Sailer is a game that was released by Mattel for the Intellivision in 1982.


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