The Intellivision Part 1

TCW Podcast Episode 177 - The Intellivision Part 1   In part one of our look at the Intellivision we look at the rocky road that made the system almost not come to market. The system had issues with both settling on chipsets to use as well as production problems. Not only was the system delayed multiple times, but the price kept going up. The Intellivision was marketed as an a gateway into computing in the home. It had a keyboard that was delayed for price reasons that was supposed to ship with the console itself. Software for the console was initially four titles. Though other games came out after launch more towards the late 1980's. The console was met with a luke-warm reception, and it looked like it would be doomed to failure. In part 2 we will see how the Intellivision eventually became a beloved classic console only to be taken out by the great video game crash.   Star Fire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwELyhziVmc Math Fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6abEkPjF5S0 Backgammon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yep6Hw_ASk Black Jack and Poker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohwmmlwtLQ Armor Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co3Wuc4JGDA Football: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkFnN49ayo8 Basketball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9VpZ-1fmMo Baseball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU9EQqQIDD0 Hockey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aErbUNzmsU Soccer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7TCqhw9_ycTennis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9o9ZIRhAjLA Skiing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G746FCsE_ko Roulette: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-wg3gutags Horse Racing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXKFQEq675o Word Fun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Q4kJdGK-v8 Sea Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpurLrUYuqo Space Battle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ8T5bojWgE   TCW 025 - Mattel Electronics?: http://podcast.theycreateworlds.com/e/mattel-electronics/   New episodes are on the 1st and 15th of every month!   TCW Email: [email protected]  Twitter: @tcwpodcast Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theycreateworlds Alex's Video Game History Blog: http://videogamehistorian.wordpress.com Alex's book, published Dec 2019, is available at CRC Press and at major on-line retailers: http://bit.ly/TCWBOOK1     Intro Music: Josh Woodward - Airplane Mode -  Music - "Airplane Mode" by Josh Woodward. Free download: http://joshwoodward.com/song/AirplaneMode  Outro Music: RolemMusic - Bacterial Love: http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Rolemusic/Pop_Singles_Compilation_2014/01_rolemusic_-_bacterial_love    Copyright: Attribution: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/