According to IGN the Intellivision Lives! DS compilation is finally coming in 2010, over 3 years after it was originally announced.
http://ds.ign.com/articles/105/1050931p1.html
In case you don't know, here's the Wiki on what Intellivision is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
And here's the Intellivision official web site:
http://www.intellivisiongames.com/
I had 73 official games for this system way back when. That's like 3/5 of the entire 125 game Intellivision library. If I'm not mistaken, this has like 40 games in the DS compilation, including the games that used the Intellivoice unit to put speech in 5 games which had accents and male and female voices.
This is one system I've always wished the DS had an emulator for....this compilation (and maybe a lack of interest?) is likely why one was never made. Apparently, it will be exactly what I imagined it should be when I asked about an emu for it years ago. The "overlay" that went on your Intellivision controller will be a pic on the touchscreen and you just tap the buttons to execute whatever commands pertained to any given game's overlay. This makes the DS uniquely suited for this compilation more than almost any other system because of the control method alone. Anyone who has ever attempted to play the PC compilations of this should know what I am talking about. It was nearly unplayable due to the unique controls the Intellivision had and juggling between a standard PC controller and the keyboard. The DS version should be the best for pure playability because of the touchscreen.
Many of you younger members probably won't care about this compilation simply because this system competed with the Atari 2600 and will feel the games are too primitive to be worth your time. But for someone like me who grew up with the system, it's one of my dreams come true for it to come out for my little DS. It will be full of old-school fun.
(if one of the Mag Staff wants to frontpage this (and word it however you want), go for it)
http://ds.ign.com/articles/105/1050931p1.html
In case you don't know, here's the Wiki on what Intellivision is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
And here's the Intellivision official web site:
http://www.intellivisiongames.com/
I had 73 official games for this system way back when. That's like 3/5 of the entire 125 game Intellivision library. If I'm not mistaken, this has like 40 games in the DS compilation, including the games that used the Intellivoice unit to put speech in 5 games which had accents and male and female voices.
This is one system I've always wished the DS had an emulator for....this compilation (and maybe a lack of interest?) is likely why one was never made. Apparently, it will be exactly what I imagined it should be when I asked about an emu for it years ago. The "overlay" that went on your Intellivision controller will be a pic on the touchscreen and you just tap the buttons to execute whatever commands pertained to any given game's overlay. This makes the DS uniquely suited for this compilation more than almost any other system because of the control method alone. Anyone who has ever attempted to play the PC compilations of this should know what I am talking about. It was nearly unplayable due to the unique controls the Intellivision had and juggling between a standard PC controller and the keyboard. The DS version should be the best for pure playability because of the touchscreen.
Many of you younger members probably won't care about this compilation simply because this system competed with the Atari 2600 and will feel the games are too primitive to be worth your time. But for someone like me who grew up with the system, it's one of my dreams come true for it to come out for my little DS. It will be full of old-school fun.
(if one of the Mag Staff wants to frontpage this (and word it however you want), go for it)
