Intellivision plug and play from AtGames in Oct 2014

[raindog]

Er, why would it run an NES emulator when it isn't for use with any NES games (and has never been used to do so, as well)? I know that someone out there wrote an Intellivision emulator for the NES, but it would be an architectural head-scratcher to design a system that emulated one platform in order to run a program emulating another platform.

 

It would be a head-scratcher, yet the Intellivision 10 and Intellivision 25 were NOACs with Intellivision games (rather poorly) reimplemented as NES games. I think that's why this assumption keeps coming up. People are confusing the NOAC nature of the older INTV PnPs with the "emulator on custom ARM" nature of the forthcoming AtGames one. The Blue Sky Rangers' own site is not helping matters:

 

...the Intellivision 25 unit bears no resemblance to any part of the original Intellivision. It is based on the Techno Source TV Play Power technology, which means what they are doing is having NES hardware emulate an Intellivision.

Q: Are the games fully emulated?

 

A: No. The hardware in the controllers is based on the classic Nintendo game system. The games have been reprogrammed for the hardware.

So, right from the horse's mouth we have two conflicting explanations, one of which is a misconception from a review that they didn't bother to correct when copy-pasting it to their site. And when you go looking for an Intellivision plug and play, at least until the Amazon search results for the AtGames one start appearing higher in search results than intellivisionlives.com, that's the page you wind up on. But what both explanations have in common is the NOAC that people keep bringing up.

[Bill Loguidice]

That's all fine, but again, what other companies have done with the license for plug and play stuff has no relation to what AtGames has done, does, or will do. As far as anything relevant is concerned, use of NOAC's for these types of devices is no longer necessary and hasn't been for some time. The last time a NOAC was used in a high profile release like this outside of those Techno Intellivision plug and plays was the first Atari Flashback, which AtGames was not involved with. As we all know, use of NOAC's to simulate/emulate (however you want to parse it) either Atari 2600 or Intellivision stuff has not gone well, so good riddance as far as I'm concerned. In regards to the Techno products, I also feel it's critically important to replicate the original controllers, which obviously they didn't and the Intellivision Flashback does. More than any other system, the unique nature of the Intellivision controller is critical to the experience.

 

I do agree that AtGames has a lot of things they need to do to educate their potential audience about the things that they do (I hope to help in that area at some point), but the ultimate proof will be in the end product. In the end, it doesn't matter what people think they're using technology-wise as long as the experience is as authentic as possible.

[raindog]

That's all fine, but again, what other companies have done with the license for plug and play stuff has no relation to what AtGames has done, does, or will do.

 

I know that, you know that, and onmode-ky knows that. The other million or so people in the world who even know these things exist think that they're made by Mattel or some company called Intellivision.

 

Not disagreeing with you, just explaining why no matter how many times the few of us who can tell the difference between TechnoSource and AtGames try to explain why this time it's different, we're still going to get "Cool, I had no idea Intellivision was still in business! Does it have a cartridge slot? Can I use the controllers on my Timex-Sinclair 1000? Does it come with all the Tron games, or just all of them?"

[fast eddie]

Look forward to this and the Colecovision versions. Hope a SD slot can be added in the future.

 

Will the games list be announced some time soon?

 

Hope eventually a Commodore 64 version comes out. Hope they would go all the way with it, not just release a plug n' play for games. I would like to see a fully functional keyboard, SD slot, and ports for joysticks. It would be great if they could go even further and add printer compatibility. Is it possible to have a program written on the C64 to use modern printers? It would be neat if can be done.

[Prosystemsearch]

Thinking of getting this for Yule!! :-D

[AtarinDave]

Hmm, this is intresting. I have the original Intellivision as well as the original ColecoVision. It's about time they did something on Coleco and Mattel, I hope they have Frenzy!

Now the question I have is, will they ever do another Atari Flashback, or was the Flashback 64 the last one for Atari?

[OldSchoolRetroGamer]

Hmm, this is intresting. I have the original Intellivision as well as the original ColecoVision. It's about time they did something on Coleco and Mattel, I hope they have Frenzy!

Now the question I have is, will they ever do another Atari Flashback, or was the Flashback 64 the last one for Atari?

 

AHEM

http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=35291066&prodFindSrc=search&cp=

[iesposta]

I am probably going to buy 2 Intellivision Flashbacks from Sam's Club, one so I can hack the controllers to use on my real Inellivision II, the other to use as is and have the 30 (15 extra) overlays.

 

I just hope if there is a next time they listen to suggestions of retrogamers and collectors!

If it is a product "not for us," why do all the Flashback boxes have in the upper right, "Collector's Edition"?????