Intellivision Lives

by Crave Entertainment

Product Features

• Library of over 60 classic Intellivision games
• Historical information and fun facts about the games, including interviews with the original Intellivision developers
• View original Intellivision commercials and archival footage
• All games optimized for the DUALSHOCK 2 analog controller for PlayStation 2.
• Exclusive unreleased games: Hardhat, Brickout and Deep Pockets.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000E32YL
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 13, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,645 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #12 in Video Games > PlayStation 2 > Arcade
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PlayStation2

From the Manufacturer

Relive the 80’s with Intellivision Lives! Over 60 classic Intellivision games available all in one package. Your all-time favorite games like Baseball, Astrosmash, Space Battle and more!

Product Description

Classic collection with more than 60 Intellivision games, history, fun facts, commercials, archival footage, and interviews. The compilation features Armor Battle, Astrosmash, B-17 Bomber, Backgammon, Baseball, Body Slam: Super Pro Wrestling, Bomb Squad, Bowling, Boxing, Buzz Bombers, Checkers, Football, Frog Bog, Golf, Hockey, Horse Racing, Hover Force, Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack, Las Vegas Roulette, Motocross, Night Stalker, Pinball, Reversi, Sea Battle, Shark! Shark!, Skiing, Snafu, Soccer, Space Armada, Space Battle, Space Hawk, Space Spartans, Spiker!: Super Pro Volleyball, Stadium Mud Buggies, Star Strike, Sub Hunt, Tennis, Thin Ice, Utopia, Vectron, and the never Hardhat, Brickout and Deep Pockets.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great Nostalgia! Horrible controls!, December 26, 2003

By 

D. K. Miles "dkmiles1" (Naples, FL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intellivision Lives (Video Game)

Ah, waking up on Christmas day in 1982 and opening Intellivision was one of the best Christmases of my youth! I remember laughing at my friends who had Atari with their stick graphics as we would wait for George Plimpton to appear on the TV to vindicate those of us who sought a better system than the standard 2600.

Alas, nothing becomes obsolete faster than video games, and unfortunately, it is totally apparent in this compilation. Specifically the sports games which separated Intellivision from the pack at the time now appear as dated as an 8-Track tape. However, it is nice to play the games that remind you of better times in childhood.

"Astrosmash", the space shoot 'em up, is still a challenging blast to play. "Bowling" still is as tough as I remember, "Skiing" holds up the test of time fairly well, stripped down, solid and timeless. "Star Strike" looks great (especially in the commericals), but has lame game play. The list goes on (over 60 in all), most are barely playable by todays standards, that aside, there is some great nostalgia here.

Negatives? Some of the best games for Intellivision are not present. Mainly because they were put out by 3rd party manufacturers (Imagic, Activision, etc.) Too bad because "Atlantis" and "Demon Attack" (both from Imagic) were very good looking and fun games.

Lastly, the game controllers on the original Intellivision drew ire even from the most devout of Intellivision fans, and were downright despised by the 2600 faithful. The mapping of the controls to the Playstation2, to put it mildly, borders on utter failure. The effort is there (e.g. graphic represenations of the Intellivision 'overlays'), but the execution is just poor. Better controls, would make this compilation 4 stars. Nostaligia alone makes it a worthwhile purchase. And for 20 bucks, you really can't go wrong!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For the Intellivision fan in all of us, December 7, 2003

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James E. Nelson (Apple Valley, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Intellivision Lives (Video Game)

Do you remember lots of fun in the mid 1980's when you used to have your Atari 2600, Intellivision and Colecovision? If you do and Intellivision is your thing, you'll like this collection of over 60 Intellivision games ever on it's run. Let's look at some of the features you'll get in this blue disc:

Play some of the classics Intellivision has to offer: Night Stalker, Space Armada, Star Strike, Frog Bog, SNAFU, Shark! Shark!, 3 Triple Action games (Biplanes, Racing Cars and Battle Tanks), Las Vegas Poker and Blackjack/Roulette, PBA Bowling, NFL Football, NASL Soccer, and more.

The pros in this disc are when you play a certain game where you have to beat the score, you'll get treated to bonus commercials (Some are with late actor George Plimpton comparing the InTV games with the Atari games), programmers' interviews, etc.

The cons are the abscences of some games like the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons games (Copyrighted by TSR Games), USCF Chess (You need left and right controller overlays for this game, different functions. How can you add more functions for that game anyway? Get InTV Classic Games for the PSOne or the PC version of InTV Lives for it.), TRON Deadly Discs and Maze-A-Tron (Walt Disney Productions own the TRON franchise.), etc.

Anyways, the game play is solid, with the right analog stick as the keypad found on InTV controllers. Hold down R1 and tap the stick to the number (2 = Up, 4 = Left, 6 = Right, etc.) You can call up the InTV pad by tapping select, and highlight the function with the left analog stick, pressing X to enter. But like I said, the game play in each game has its' own style.

The sound are the standard bloops and bleeps found in these InTV games.

So far, my faves in this disc are PBA Bowling, Night Stalker, Auto Racing, Frog Bog, SNAFU, etc.

I give this game a 5 for unlimited replayability, and awesome games InTV had back in the mid 80's. For $...you can't go wrong. Pick up InTV Lives and you'll have a great time playing it.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great stuff for Gen X video Gamers and curious heads alike--, December 13, 2003

By 

Hype Currie "scholar of pop culture" (Detroit, Michigan United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Intellivision Lives (Video Game)

Intellivision was my first.. and basically, my only video game system throughout my childhood..

great games, indeed.. though i wasn't the best at playing all of them..

now I get a second chance.. plus I get to play games for the system that I never owned..

PRO:
Over 50 games total, all separated into "arcade/adventure", "sports", "children/kids", "Space" and more.. some of my personal favorites included the sports games (football, baseball, hockey, basketball, bowling, auto racing, more), Thunder Castle, Tower of Doom (D&D-styled RPG-esque), Hover Force (helicopter/battle), Space Battle (fight against Cylon-esque alien ships) Poker & Blackjack (my first introduction to gambling!)... "Utopia" was arguably the first Reality Sim game..

witness early prototype voice synthesis in games with B-17 bomber, space spartans, the "Yer Out" with baseball, and more..

There are some easter eggs scattered throughout, when you reach certain point/progression goals in various games..

CON:
some of the games require you to have two controllers plugged in, even if you intend to use the option of solo play (but most people have two controllers, right?).. and a handful of games are still two-players only (like Boxing)..

for face value/nostalgia, the games are fine. But there is no "enhancing" of any of the games, for the 2003 era.. There is an option to play with the screen image, which is kind of odd.. but that's it..

Using the standard PS2 controller to play some of these games is downright GOD-AWFUL! for games which only required 4 or less buttons, it's okay.. And there is an interface where each player can bring up a sim of the old Overlay (customized for each game), but the image takes up almost half the screen, and so you're expected to finagle with screen cues while still trying to keep up with the action on the screen, which seriously downgrades the experience.. Keypad-dependent games like BOXING are ridiculously complicated to witness.. I wrote to the Blue Sky Rangers to suggest creation of new INTV-styled controllers for use on PS2/X-Box, but they nixed the idea..
Legal restrictions prevented including all the popular licensed games for Intellivision (as well as 3rd-party manufactured games) released over the years (arcade adaptions like BURGER TIME, LOCK N CHASE, and movie/TV/cartoon based games like HE-MAN and my personal favorite, TRON DEADLY DISCS).. Though in my opinion, with some creativity, some of these games could have been re-worked without the licensed references..

Next time around, I'd like to see INTV license "new" versions of some of these games, like a 3-D night stalker, space battle, hover force, etc.

Also: This game is manufactured on "BLUE" Playstation discs-- which are NOTORIOUS for giving PS2 Consoles problems.. search video game message boards for tips on your options to handle any problems-- but one that worked for me is to place two pieces of tape (i used masking) on either side of the center hole on the top of the disc.. the blue discs supposedly are "thinner" and need extra "balancing" to read properly..

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