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7.8
4 reviews

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7.0
kris kris

My parents bought this shortly after they got married, and it was a regular feature of my childhood, pulled out on weekends and played with for hours on end. We had a pretty decent selection of games; particular favorites of mine were Triple Action (was never really that good at keeping the...

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eight eight

This system was my first exposure to videogames. The controller is a little unwieldy at first but after playing a little you can see that designers were really thinking outside the box. Before this system it was all joysticks and a few buttons. The intellivision dared to think outside the box...

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7.0
hmontgomery hmontgomery

Great variety of games - football, soccer, basketball, Tron, Snafu, other space games... I played it for hours. The football game had a playbook for offense and defense. Sweet.

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