Any Intellivsion owners on here?...

[dave4shmups]

I've played a lot of Intellivsion Lives! on the Nintendo DS, and I LOVE the games! I'd love to get an Intellivsion, but I worry about how comfortable the controllers are; specifically the large circular d-pad. And, it's not like the Colecovision, where you can plug in a Genesis controller.

I've been told that the controllers on the Intellivsion II are even less comfortable, but I don't know if that's true.

[Marc]

The controllers on the original machine are fine Dave, and way ahead of their time. You're also missing some of the best games on the Intellivision Lives comp - Tron Deadly Discs, Lock n Chase, Nova Blast, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons and an excellent version of Super Cobra being some if the best. I've got around sixty games but the macho e blew on me, I need to get another because its one console that emulation really doesn't do justice.

[Friendly]

I have an Intellivision (and 20-something games) in my collection, and the controllers (specifically the disc-like d-pads) are rather awful compared to more modern gamepads, imho. Apparently the concept of ergonomics didn't exist back then.

[Marc]

Man it's 30-odd years old! Look at the rest of the controllers fro the same era - 2600 or 5200 sticks anyone? That controller was way before its time.

[dave4shmups]

Man it's 30-odd years old! Look at the rest of the controllers fro the same era - 2600 or 5200 sticks anyone? That controller was way before its time.

True! The Aquarius is pretty cheap, and interests me as well.

[Marc]

Sadly, the Aquarius is a pile of crap. Just compare the two versions of Deadly Discs. Only computer ever launched that was obsolete before it landed.

[trivial]

The disc-pad is uncomfortable. But the side buttons are worse. Keypad overlays will be oxidized and flaky by now, I'm guessing. Play the emulated releases for later consoles, on a TV.

I had both models of Intellivision, and I don't remember ergonomic differences.

[Jeneki]

Oddly enough, I received some Intellivision games a few years ago. Didn't have much use for them, but they just don't make box art like that anymore.

Last week a different friend gave me their Intellivision. Has two controllers but no cords. I'll have to look up what I need for power and A/V and take it for a spin.

[dave4shmups]

The only thing that concerns me about the Intellivsion controller's circular d-pad is that it might rotate when I press on it. And, on that note, the d-pad on the Intellivision II looks like it would do that, because it looks really loose and flimsy.