Tales from the Game Room

I just sent my $45 for both Upmonsters and Pumpkin Master box/overlays sets for Intellivision.

Ashley Bottoms here. My reserved copy is #111. How do I go about purchasing it? I clicked on the link, but it does not seem to work... ~ Ash

"Alternate Reality" for Commodore 64. Only the first two games of the series [The City and The Dungeon] were released, and then Datasoft decided to end the series all together. There were six games planned in the beginning: The City [which became split in to 2 chapters: The City and The Dungeon] The Arena The Palace The Wilderness Revelations Destiny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_Reality_(series)

The sound effects are definitely taken from Intellivision games. I somehow believe that the game in this video was simply created just for the "National Lampoon's Vacation" film.

For some, it was just too easy to blame Atari's E.T.

It sounds a lot like "TRIPLE ACTION" for the Intellivision. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2yC9EJMwV4

Great interview! As a fellow reporter, may I suggest not using the sound effects of the game during the interview, as it drowns out the interview. I had the pleasure of interviewing HSW myself back in December of 2015. He is a great guy and IMHO a pioneer in the infancy of video games... www.hulkshare.com/appetitefordiscussion/bottoms-up-afd-12-28-2015

Back in the day, Activision made a Frogger-type game called "FREEWAY" for the Atari 2600. It's based on the old saying "Why did the chicken cross the road?" You may want to check that one out. ~ Ash Here is the commercial... https://youtu.be/hsnNxnGowcg

The Sega Genesis was made for shooters and platform games. It's a great system, and I collected a lot of great games for it [over 600 in my personal collection] in the 90's...

Gotcha! Thanks for the info. ~ Ash

You can put me down for one if you plan on selling Wolfenstein for Sega Genesis.

I like it!

I could not agree more. The problem with the Atari 2600 version of E.T. was that Atari made more games than video game systems in households. So, they were bound to have a huge surplus. Atari was counting on a big year with the success of Atari in the past, the success of the film E.T, and the licensing deal with Spielberg, and they all wanted to cash in on a video game version of E.T. that Christmas, and figured that waiting an additional year would only hurt their sales as the "E.T. buzz" would have faded away. Because of this, HSW was given only 5 weeks to create the game, and while some of the code had been borrowed from his other game, Raiders of the Lost Ark, the overall finished version of E.T. for Atari 2600 is very playable, and enjoyable. HSW even suggested that E.T. be a Pac-Man type game, but Atari wanted another role-play adventure, and personally I am happy that Atari stepped in on that one. I had the honor of interviewing HSW a year ago this week, and the man is intelligent, game savy, and knew what he was getting into. He also stands by his product, and I could not agree more that E.T. was not the worst game...it was just that Atari and Spielberg both hyped up a game that had gamers waiting for something more. I recommend that those who despise this game simply revisit it and see for themselves. E.T. may not be perfect, but it is certainly not the worst game ever created! I tip my hat to HSW for creating a game alone in 5 weeks that was nearly impossible to do back in the 80's, much less by today's standards. I am also including the link to my radio show interview with the man himself, Howard Scott Warshaw...one of the nicest men in the industry, who literally granted me the interview within days of my asking for one. http://www.hulkshare.com/appetitefordiscussion/bottoms-up-afd-12-28-2015 ~ Ashley

Put me down for the lowest number of the limited edition, please.

Put me down for one copy of this game for Intellivision! I'll take the earliest numbered game you have, and I will be paying by personal check, so I will need the details of who to make the check out to, the total, and where to send payment ASAP. Thank you. ~ Ashley

Absolutely! I have a huge collection of 32x, game.com, Saturn, and Dreamcast games. I've always had a special admiration for the underdog systems.

Count me in for a copy of this game...any number will do.

I'll definitely want a copy of this game...any numbered copy will do. ~ Ash

The Odyssey 2 had a voice synthesizer as well, just like Zap! is displaying. The difference was that the Intellivision voice was activated by the mechanism from programing in the special game cartridges, while the Odyssey voice was in the mechanism itself. It was a strange, and turbulent time...lol

I'm always good for one !!! ~ Ash

I never seem to have any luck when it comes to burning emulated games on a disc for my Dreamcast. I tried using Alcohol 120 and even followed tutorials that I watched on Youtube, yet I never seem to get the game burned right... I have a ton of emulation roms, but not the time to burn them all. Can anyone help?

Me too...