Blog posts : "History"
Intellivision Keyboard Component Demo Video
When the Intellivision was released it held the promise of a future component that would turn the Intellivision into a fully functional home computer. This much delayed accessory had reliability problems. A lot of Intellivision fans were consistently disappointed for many years, but hope of release always seemed to be just around the corner.
They even released a demo system with a cassette that demonstrated the potential of the keyboard into test markets in the late 1970s. This video shows ex…
Rare Kool Aid Man Comic Book
A rare Kool Aid Man convention giveaway was recently purchased by Atari Age user Y-BOT. Check it out HERE.
National VideoGame Museum Coming to Texas
After years of trying to find a home, the Videogame History Museum now has one: The Frisco, Texas Discovery Center, whose board has committed 10,400 square feet now and nearly $1 million to cover startup costs and construction of a larger facility to showcase its vast collection.
The board of the Frisco Community Development Corporation this week voted unanimously to approve the terms bringing the museum, founded by John Hardie, Sean Kelly and Joe Santulli, to the Discovery Center. The Mus…
Hal Finney Interview
Hell Finney, a Blue Sky Ranger has passed. Here is a look at some of his achievements to the gaming world, as seen in this interview. Courtesy of 2600Connection.
As the story goes, APh Technology Consultants (located in Pasadena, CA) was hired by Mattel in 1976 to help design what became the Intellivision system; eventually they programmed the system's software, most of the development tools, and all of the first Intellivision, M-Network, and Keyboard Component games. The team consisted of …
Remembering Playing Intellivision with Father in 1980s
Courtesy of Mark Leslie via 2WarpStonepTune, who lost his father unexpectedly in 2003:
" I thought I’d post this picture of my Dad and I playing Intellivision back in the early 1980’s. I love this picture. We were collaborating on one of the simple initial game offerings on this system: Space Battle. One of us would navigate the cross-hairs over the enemy spaceships and the other would fire. A simple task that certainly didn’t require two people, but the game was so much more fun when…
