What the heck games are these???

[Rickster8]

I've heard of Gorf / Wizard of Wor and the Omega Race, but the rest of them?

 

 

 

 

Madden Football for Intellivision? DAFUQ???? 🤷‍♂️

 

 

 

 

[Atari_Bill]

These were all games announced for development back in the day.  They were ultimately shelved and never released.  Someone recently produced the various boxes for these never released games.  

[Intymike]

All empty repro boxes.

[Rickster8]

But what about Wing War, is this an actual Imagic Game for Inty??? 

[Sinjinhawke]

I would like that box for my copy of GORF.

[Illtiger1]

That Madden is strange for sure.  I think the first game came out in the late 80s on Apple II.  Domino kind of reminds me that Tapper was never on deck to be ported to the INTV to my knowledge.  That would have been great.

[carlsson]

See here for origin of the box art: https://forums.atariage.com/topic/280182-cbs-electronics-games-help/

 

[+cmadruga]

5 hours ago, Rickster8 said:

But what about Wing War, is this an actual Imagic Game for Inty??? 

Not… yet.

[+fdr4prez]

1 hour ago, cmadruga said:

Not… yet.

You tease

[mr_me]

There are modern homebrews of Omega Race and Wizard of Wor by Dr Ports, whoever that is, from 2020/21.  There's also a homebrew of Gorf by Collectorvision, programming credit to Mystery Men.

 

Back in 1983, CBS Electronics put out a press release in June announcing these titles for Intellivision.  The first two, Wizard of Wor and Gorf would have had to have been going in to manufacturing to make a July release.  Madden Football would have been later.  Not sure how that would have worked on Intellivision since Madden wanted all player positions represented.

 

 

There is some video evidence that Imagic had an Intellivison version of Wing War in play testing back in 1983.  As others pointed out, the boxes are modern creations.

Edited March 17, 2023 by mr_me

[bikeguychicago]

20 hours ago, Rickster8 said:

But what about Wing War, is this an actual Imagic Game for Inty??? 

Wing War was a game that was under development back in the '83/'84 timeframe. There is an archive video at Imagic's studios, which features an in-development Wing War in the video's background. The game was never released for Intellivision, though it eventually came out for Colecovision.

Edited March 17, 2023 by bikeguychicago

[bikeguychicago]

If I recall correctly, the CBS Madden Football was canceled outright. Madden wanted entire 11-player teams, and I believe the systems CBS was targeting with the game could not give Madden what he wanted in his namesake game. 

[carlsson]

3 hours ago, mr_me said:

Madden wanted all player positions represented.

Is that 2x11 players in football? With 8 hardware + 14 clever software sprites it should be doable. Probably a lot of GRAM cycling and redefining.

[Popeye]

15 hours ago, cmadruga said:

Not… yet.

I would definitely love to see it on the Intellivision

[Numan]

On 3/17/2023 at 12:16 PM, carlsson said:

Is that 2x11 players in football? With 8 hardware + 14 clever software sprites it should be doable. Probably a lot of GRAM cycling and redefining.

Are you accepting the challenge?  😃

[carlsson]

No, my heart is elsewhere though based on the little NFL I have watched on Superbowl, it doesn't seem like 22 individual players in constant movement.