It’s the Intellivision Sprint for those who don’t want to click on the article
Hey Gen X and Elder Millennials, guess what's getting a proper retro release...
Submitted 6 days ago by JaymesRS@piefed.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
https://www.theverge.com/news/801646/atari-intellivision-sprint-console-competition
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Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world 6 days ago
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Amazing Atari is doing this. After the whole Tommy debacle (an amazing saga from the CU podcast if anyone hasn’t seen it)
TheJesusaurus@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
How elder of a millenial do you need to be for this to be nostalgic to you?
JaymesRS@piefed.world 6 days ago
It came out in 79 and games were still being made into the late 80s.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 6 days ago
My first console!
My dad got it used off a coworker for $50.
FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
If anyone cares, look into the game Utopia. One of my favorites on this platform.
JaymesRS@piefed.world 6 days ago
That was a lot of fun, and I was absolutely terrible at it. My favorites were Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and Shark! Shark!
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
And on atari.com, the link to the Intellivision Sprint leads to a 404 page.
That’s encouraging /s
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 days ago
For those who never had their hands on one… god those controllers sucked.
Triumph@fedia.io 6 days ago
We are all Ringo Starr on this glorious day.
Valmond@lemmy.world 6 days ago
That disc was so bad or you’d will all the games, or so we thought.
JaymesRS@piefed.world 6 days ago
It had 16 buttons (albeit the side buttons were ?almost always? Mirrored) and a multidirectional disk. And you had to keep a collection of plastic sheet inserts for each game. So bad, but I loved mine so much. I hated that the Atari only had a Joystick and 1 button at friends’ houses.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Plus, membrane buttons.