21st Century places, tools, and things for creating or consuming enjoyment of the classic Intellivision games.
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The culmination of one year of work is available from "Lathe26" on Atari Age.
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Aside from lawful sellers, there are many places on the internet to grab homebrew and independent-publisher 21st Century games, for free. A sample of the overall items are included here.
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There are many ways to emulate a classic Intellivision on other platforms. In 2021, jzIntv is simply the best way to do it. When in doubt, start with jzIntv.
jzIntv is so complete, it even has an Easter Egg embedded: keep "resetting" the game by holding down the key mapped to it in jzIntv config, and a screen with static noise will show on Channel 03, and simulate a person hitting the mute button. :)
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The jzintv --gfx-palette flag makes color tweaking simple, because NTSC is notorious for meaning Never The Same Color.
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Intellivision Productions, in the late 1990s, created floppy disks with the INTVPC emulator and s few games in a ready to play format. This evolved into the game packs on the Intellivsion Lives and Intellivision Rocks discs.
In 2021, most of these packs are not usable on modern OSes because INTVPC was written in Borland Pascal for MSDOS/Windows 3.1
In 1998, the Intellivision Lives CDROM for PC and MacOS contained these games, and later the run-ready game collections were produced for PS2 and Xbox and Game Cube in addition. INtellivision Lives was created for pack-in on Nintendo DS (the DS platform suits several games very well and is a popular portable way to play the games).
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The Aquarius is a computer platform with some similar-looking software, but is in no way compatible with or similar to the Intellivision family. It is included here because it was a Mattel Electronics product, and can be fun in its own way.
For the curious, there is an emulator that runs under Windows 7 and newer Microsoft OSs.
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If you have ever wanted to try writing games for the Intellivision but you don't have hours of free time to just sit down in front of a computer, then use this document to create a full development environment right on your Android phone or tablet.
You do not need to root your device, and you do not need advanced technical skill. First, buy the books Programming Games For Intellivision and Advanced Game Programming for Intellivision and learn to write simple Intellivision programs. Then set up a full development environment to write games using only your device and a keyboard.
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The most popular is "SF Intellivised", others exist and will be linked-to here as the FAQ maintainers have more time.
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Aside from eBay and Facebook Marketplace, there are several places to buy games and consoles and parts at retail.
Like it or not, eBay is generally the go-to for people selling hardware, games, and accessories. The Blue Sky Rangers maintain an official eBay storefront as of Spring, 2021.
Between 2010 and 2021, scalpers and speculators have generally driven prices up, so eBay has been a great place to learn about what is available, but not necessarily the place to buy (except for the BSR store).
Organizations like Goodwill, Mission Thrift, and other national groups have online sales areas.
Protecting physical game boxes is possible at "Retro Protect", and they will even do custom boxes if asked.
Check the sources here for alternative places to shop.
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See link to Hoskinson Industries.
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Average value for a Mattel gold 2609 Master Component is $70 used, $110 in box, $300+ new and unused (very hard to come by after 40 years).
According to the PriceCharting website, a collection of known original and major Independent cartridge games and hardware has a value of $4,406.60 and if all items are new-shrinkwrapped it is $18,408.14.
PriceCharting tends to be less than accurate and undervalued for all systems older than the NES, so Intellivision values are likely slightly higher for many items. YMMV!
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You found this FAQ, so that is a good start. :)
Aside from the implied connections elsewhere in this FAQ, try these direct places:
