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_yc

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/

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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 

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