Major League Baseball Intellivision 1980
Look at those graphics!
The old Intellivision system is probably how I first learned about a lot of the rules of baseball. I remember naming the players (most of batters were Jose Cruz and the pitchers were Nolan Ryan – I was an Astros fan early), and having tournaments by myself. I also got in plenty of games against my dad.
Intellivision was the video game system that had controllers that looked a bit like our telephones look today.
Each game came with little cards that you slide into the controller. Here is the overlay for MLB:
Pretty nifty.
From the catalog description:
The crowd roars as the nine man home team sprints out onto the field. Then you and your opponent use all the tricks in the book to score the winning run.
You control all the action — balls and strikes, hit and run, double plays and stolen bases. And it’s not over until the last out of the ninth inning!
- Two players
- Nine full innings
- Control pitching, fielding, base running, batting
July 16, 2007 at 8:00 am |
I never had an Intellevision; my first game was Baseball for the Atari 2600, followed closely by Earl Weaver baseball for the PC. Guess which one was better!
February 26, 2009 at 6:48 pm |
Wow, I had this game, i got it for my birthday, sometime around 82-83. Just seeing it (I was 6 or 7 at the time) brings memories flooding back, I just had a wave of nostalgia as these are some of my earliest memories. I think we had Donkey Kong and Zaxxon too as well as some type of dungeons and dragons game. :)