Intellivisioner Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 Some years ago I found an AD&D game on eBay offered by a swedish seller. I was surprised to find an official swedish manual with it. I like to share this acqusition with you. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vprette Posted February 4, 2012 Share Posted February 4, 2012 new variant! this is the rarest one! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 Very cool, although these language variations are getting exhausting! I'm still a big fan of the Japanese Bandai instructions but these make the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+thegoldenband Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 In this version, of course, the minotaur has been replaced by a møøse. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev Posted February 5, 2012 Share Posted February 5, 2012 In this version, of course, the minotaur has been replaced by a møøse. So now there are 2 Rocky and Bullwinkle game on the Intellivision! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roberto Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Micket bra! Jag alskar dig!! (... and that's (almost) all I can remember after having worked/studied in Stockholm for 6 months years back... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vprette Posted February 6, 2012 Share Posted February 6, 2012 Micket bra! Jag alskar dig!! (... and that's (almost) all I can remember after having worked/studied in Stockholm for 6 months years back... ) the 2 best years of my life in Sweden :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NumbThumb Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 (edited) Well, since you asked... There were actually official swedish manuals made. At least in the beginning. Here are Space Battle, Skiing, Tennis and Vectron. Backside: And these are minimized copies of original manuals on to 4A papersheets. Here it says 15 000 sold. (c:a 1986) Meaning games i think, which would translate to maybe 2000-3000 consoles? Nice that some of you enjoyed your time in Sweden... The swedish Intellivision "scene" basically only consists of a thread on the Commodore64.se forums that I started this summer... But we do have a celebrity who is an Intellivision fan of sorts. His artist name is "Markoolio" and is kind of like your Weird Al Jankovic. He has tweeted about Intellivision, for example that he was happy to get a Triple Action which was his first video game ever. Here he is in his rendition of Becks "Loser" (from 98` i think) It is about him having to travel by commuter train since he has no drivers license and is incapable of getting one. The chorus is something like "Goooing by Commuter Train, I´m a Loser Baby, I have no drivers license!" Another popular one is "More Goals" (Mera Mål) a song about that video games is better than the real thing, in this case soccer... Maybe I should suggest that he gets a ECS synthesizer for his studio... Anyways, sorry about all this but you asked for "swedish"... Edited January 7, 2015 by NumbThumb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted January 7, 2015 Share Posted January 7, 2015 Cool. I have a few Swedish variants that I picked up from someone in Finland a long, long time ago. Need to remember to add these to the database! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted January 8, 2015 Share Posted January 8, 2015 The 1986 advertisment must be from the later, Bergsala years. They bought or otherwise took over the remaining stock and agenture from LEAB and sold Intellivision, Microbee and a few more (Vectrex?) to "practise" for their launch of the Nintendo Entertainment System. Bergsala asked Nintendo early on to start distribute it, as they already sold G&W but they had to wait for a while. I don't know though if any sales of leftover Intellivision units worked towards convincing Nintendo this company should represent them in Sweden and rest of Scandinavia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 Necro posting, but it recently came to my awareness that Thin Ice exists with Swedish instructions. This game officially was launched in August 1986, and I suppose one could expect a few months delay before Bergsala got access to selling it which would put us close to the beginning of 1987. For comparison, Bergsala begun NES sales in September 1986. From what I've found, Bergsala bought surplus Vectrex systems in c:a 1984 and sold those while waiting for Nintendo and up till now, I thought they did the same about surplus Intellivision stuff from LEAB in 1985. Apparently Bergsala held the agenture from INTV Corp and at least brought some of their games, perhaps even System /// over here, in parallel with the NES and G&W sales. It makes me wonder for how long they kept the Intellivision on this market (still in competition with the even more aging Atari 2600 of course). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr_me Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 (edited) There's always a market for popular older generation systems as budget systems that sell for half the price or lower. I wouldn't be surprised if there's other localised editions of intellivisions and cartridges that have not been discovered yet. Edited April 21, 2020 by mr_me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 20 minutes ago, carlsson said: Necro posting, but it recently came to my awareness that Thin Ice exists with Swedish instructions. This game officially was launched in August 1986, and I suppose one could expect a few months delay before Bergsala got access to selling it which would put us close to the beginning of 1987. For comparison, Bergsala begun NES sales in September 1986. From what I've found, Bergsala bought surplus Vectrex systems in c:a 1984 and sold those while waiting for Nintendo and up till now, I thought they did the same about surplus Intellivision stuff from LEAB in 1985. Apparently Bergsala held the agenture from INTV Corp and at least brought some of their games, perhaps even System /// over here, in parallel with the NES and G&W sales. It makes me wonder for how long they kept the Intellivision on this market (still in competition with the even more aging Atari 2600 of course). any pic of that Swedish manual? Tack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 21, 2020 Share Posted April 21, 2020 The auction ended in November 2019, so grab it before it disappears: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1UxiTVDvBgEJ:https://www.tradera.com/item/301704/372449242/intellivision-i-kartong-med-9-spel-bl-a-thin-ice-med-bergsala-a4- Careful readers will see a BASIC cartridge for the VTech Creativision was included in the lot! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 14 hours ago, carlsson said: The auction ended in November 2019, so grab it before it disappears: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:1UxiTVDvBgEJ:https://www.tradera.com/item/301704/372449242/intellivision-i-kartong-med-9-spel-bl-a-thin-ice-med-bergsala-a4- Careful readers will see a BASIC cartridge for the VTech Creativision was included in the lot! Ummmm....anyone know anything about Creativision? ? 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 so it was you! Why am I not surprised? That's perhaps unique or close to be. A pure holy grail from the Northern Valleys in front of the Gates of Valhalla. Cmart, you will ride eternal, shiny and chrome (quote from Mad Max: Fury Road) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 4 hours ago, cmart604 said: Ummmm....anyone know anything about Creativision? Hah, I see you are fishing overseas. And yes, I have been programming a little on the "other" CV, mainly an almost finished Reversi game but also some other stuff. I think even the cc65 compiler has been targetted for it. The VTech Creativision is super rare in most parts of the world but semi-common in a few select places like Australia, Italy, Sweden, perhaps some more places. In particular in my home town almost every collector worth his salt owns one or two systems which is downright peculiar considering how rare it is elsewhere. Supposedly it was some store who used to sell them who had a big surplus once they closed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 1 hour ago, carlsson said: Hah, I see you are fishing overseas. And yes, I have been programming a little on the "other" CV, mainly an almost finished Reversi game but also some other stuff. I think even the cc65 compiler has been targetted for it. The VTech Creativision is super rare in most parts of the world but semi-common in a few select places like Australia, Italy, Sweden, perhaps some more places. In particular in my home town almost every collector worth his salt owns one or two systems which is downright peculiar considering how rare it is elsewhere. Supposedly it was some store who used to sell them who had a big surplus once they closed. Haha! There are very few parts of the world I haven't bought stuff from. ? I honestly know nothing about the Creativision, that's cool info. ?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 2 hours ago, intellivotion said: so it was you! Why am I not surprised? That's perhaps unique or close to be. A pure holy grail from the Northern Valleys in front of the Gates of Valhalla. Cmart, you will ride eternal, shiny and chrome (quote from Mad Max: Fury Road) Haha! It's cool to keep finding stuff from around the world after all these years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carlsson Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 12 minutes ago, cmart604 said: There are very few parts of the world I haven't bought stuff from. Antarctica? Machu Picchu? Chernobyl? Northern Mariana Islands? Saint Helena? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+cmart604 Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Just now, carlsson said: Antarctica? Machu Picchu? Chernobyl? Northern Mariana Islands? Saint Helena? Haha. Not yet..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intvsteve Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 Scans? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Steve Jones Posted April 22, 2020 Share Posted April 22, 2020 I’ll do scans when I have time but meanwhile here’s a couple of photos of mine 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+intellivotion Posted April 23, 2020 Share Posted April 23, 2020 wow, fanstastiskt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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