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Hey hey HEY!  What are you doing talking about Intellivision?  You're supposed to be talking about Taito games! :)

My cousin had an Intellivision and we'd play it together when I visited her in Alabama when we were kids.  For some reason, our favorite game to play was Frog Bog.  That's about the only game I remember on this new collection.

There were a couple of Intellivision games that looked way ahead of their time, though.  One was a helicopter game and one was a baseball game. Both are on that collection, too, I believe.

I played this collection right after Taito Legends 1. Soon I'll be back to Taito Legends 2. Still playing the awesome Paper Mario: Thousand Year Door. Then I'll be back to Taito stuff. Can't wait.

I played Frog Bog on Atari 2600 a few years back. It was called Frogs and Flies and is graphically much simplier and the controls a little more intuitive. I was surprised how much I liked it when I played it with a friend. When the Intellivision version came on Xbox Live's Game Room, I played it there and got all the medals for it. It's simple but fun.

I dig bass. 

I think the Intellivision controller was confusing even in its time, judging by the AVGN video on it. 

That PS2 looks awesome. Looks like it should go in one of those futuristic-looking, solid white or silver "modern" living rooms seen in movies. 

I don't remember having a problem with the keypad controller when playing on the actual Intellivision console. You could touch the keys and see what they did. I think that facilitated figuring it out. When you have to read up first, that slows down getting into the game a lot. No one wants to do that.

I had an Intellivision when I lived in SF in my twenties.  It was cool.  Atari was better. 

I had an Atari too, but my neighbor had an Intellivision and we kids were keen to visit him a play some football, baseball and hockey. It was tops for sports games and had some games that the other systems just couldn't do like the strategy and sim titles it had. It was the best for multiplayer action, I felt. I played Atari on my own mostly. I liked the single player games much better on Atari.

ah, that's a good point.  I never tried the sports games as I played it back in the late 90's and not in its heyday. 

At the time it was something special, offering something none of the other systems could. I thought it was appropriate that my neighbor got that system because his whole family was big into sports. My family got the Atari because it was out first and my Dad was always interested in the newest tech toy.

Having to constantly look at a manual to play a game isn't something I have much of a problem with, though that could be because it's something I used to do a lot when I was younger

I am so conditioned by modern games now, that I just balk at having to read anything before at least playing the first level of a game. I did read the manual for X-Com on PS1 when I played that earlier this year; however, I did, at first, jump right in and was able to get a little ways before dying.

Oh I have this game, and it sounds like you ran into some of the problems I did. I tried playing a couple of games, had no idea what the controls were, and after a couple of minutes it was out of the PS2. 

I forced myself to keep trying the games, but I was impatient when it came to figuring out the controls for most of them. I had to first find where they were hiding the instructions. That was enough to make me go, "NEXT!".

I missed out on the Intellivision myself. The only Intellivision games I played were the handful of Intellivision games that were converted to the 2600, like Astrosmash. You can tell those games because they're shaped like Intellivision cartridges with attachments to make them fit into a 2600 cart slot. Astrosmash was interesting, but Intellivision's offerings as a whole weren't very appealing. I was used to playing on the Atari 130XE anyway.

I never had one, but my next door neighbor did and us neighborhood kids went over there to play the sports games. I still love strategy game Sea Battle. I only wish it had a single player mode.

yeah I'm not sure I'd go that far back to play some old skool gaming. I never had the pleasure of that system and even when I tried the atari 2600 there wasn't much that would impress me now sadly. I fear the lastest I'd go with games would be on the NES/Master system, anything before that I fear won't keep my interest. Blame me for liking graphics and gameplay but I'm not feeling it with most of those games. Sorry.

I kinda agree. Those games from before NES are pretty short and lacking in content. I will say though, Intellivision games play much better on the DS port of Intellivision Lives!. I thought they worked really well there with the touch screen and all.