Retro Tech Tuesday: Intellivision
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:03AM Things can get pretty heated between xBox fans and PS3 fans. But that rivalry has nothing on the days of Intellivision and Atari. The early 1980's was a time of videgoame fever. Sure there might be more people playing videogames today than ever before, but back then, we were experiencing the first wave of in-home electronic games, and there were two camps: The Atari 2600 users, and the Intellivision users. For the record, I was in the Atari camp. And let's be honest here, the Atari offered a far wider selection of games. Still the Intellivision with its nearly unusable joysticks, and easy-to-lose-game-specific overlays, had better graphics, and more complex gaming.
In case you missed the Intellivsion the first time around, here's a look back. Sorry, but the rebate is over: