Intellivision Brasil

ABPA BACKGAMMON

No. 1119 (Mattel)
No. 75214 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Kevin Miller
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Licence: American Backgammon Players Association
USA launch: 10/16/1980 (No. 13)

Beating Intellivision at backgammon is a lot of fun. But it's definitely not child's play. The computer knows all the tricks -- and it calculates all the odds before it moves. Can you find a flaw in its strategy? Can you give it pieces to gobble up freely, then trap it in the back game? Or will you just cross your fingers, press the button and roll the dice? Perfect your own backgammon skills with this modem version of one of the world's oldest games.

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS CARTRIDGE

No. 3410

1 player

Master Component

Program: Tom Loughry
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Licence: Based on the RPG by TSR Hobbies, Inc.
Working title: Adventure
USA launch: 08/16/1982 (No. 35)
Brazil launch: 10/1984
AKA 'AD&D Cloudy Mountain', 'Crown of Kings'

Take the wrong turn and you'll soon be staring at the biggest, meanest and most clever dragon you've ever imagined. You start out in a maze. But, this is no ordinary maze. It's revealed to you only a few feet at a time as you enter each new uncharted corridor. The maze scrolls: up, down, right and left. You don't know when it's going to take a turn -- for the worse. That dangerous dragon could be between you and the treasure that you must find. Along your way you'll find a variety of objects to help you avoid the dragon. Based on the popular role-playing board game, this video version will provide you with many hours of enjoyment.

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TREASURE OF TARMIN CARTRIDGE

No. 5300

1 player

Master Component

Program: Tom Loughry
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Licence: TSR Hobbies, Inc.
Working title: Minotaur
USA launch: 1983
AKA 'Dungeons & Dragons II'

You've found the secret map to the underground lair of the dreaded Minotaur. You can go in, but you'll never come out unless you slay the Minotaur and claim his Tarmin treasure. As you make your way through the hallways and chambers, monsters wield their conventional or spiritual weapons. You must gather the proper defenses along the way. But use them sparingly, the Minotaur looms closer!

ARMOR BATTLE

No. 1121 (Mattel)
No. 75211 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Chris Kingsley
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Working title: Tanks-A-Lot
USA launch: 09/04/1980 (No. 7)

Dust off your field glasses and scan the horizon for enemy tanks. There's one -- grinding its way out of the woods!
You see each other at the same time. Both turrets swing toward their targets. Who will fire a split second sooner? And who will be reduced to a pile of rubble?
When you've beaten your opponent, move on to a new battlefield. There are literally hundreds of new terrains to conquer!
War may be nerve-wracking, but this is pure fun!

ASTROSMASH

No. 3605 (Mattel)
No. 75229 (Sears)

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: John Sohl
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Working titles: Meteor! + Avalanche, Rocks
USA launch: 10/15/1981 (No. 23)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

Spin. Blast. And drop into hyperspace to avoid a killer asteroid shower. Power on. Attack computer engaged. Fire a quick burst at the alien antagonists. Got 'em!
Now take a deep breath and relax. But only for a fraction of a second, because more trouble is on the way.
You're all alone in a hostile universe of tumbling asteroids and homicidal aliens. You've got the wits and the speed, but you're awesomely outnumbered.
With a little practice, you may survive...

Astrosmash started out as a clone of the arcade game Asteroids, called Meteor!. The game wasn't very big, so John Sohl used the extra room in the cartridge to come up with a variation called Avalanche using the same graphics and sound effects. At the last minute, afraid of a lawsuit from Atari, the Mattel lawyers killed the Asteroids-like Meteor!. Rather than risk introducing bugs by deleting code, John simply put a branch around the opening-screen menu straight into the Avalanche! variation, which was released under the name Astrosmash. John admits he wasn't sorry to see Meteor! go -- he hadn't been happy with the game, much preferring the Avalanche! version.

Astrosmash quickly became one of the most popular Intellivision games thanks in large part to a very simple technique John programmed in: like most arcade-style games, Astrosmash gets faster and harder at higher levels, but unlike most arcade-style games, as you start to lose lives, the game gets easier again. The game then is never too easy or too hard, making it extremely addictive and making it possible for even a beginner to play a single game for over an hour.

The popularity of Astrosmash was such that late in 1982 it replaced Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack as the cartridge shipped with the Intellivision Master Component. By June 1983, the last date for which figures are available, 984,900 copies of Astrosmash had been shipped, making it the most widely distributed cartridge by any of the Blue Sky Rangers (trailing only the APh produced Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack and Major League Baseball cartridges).
John Sohl was rewarded with a plaque from Mattel and a better offer from Activision, which he took (after finishing B-17 Bomber).

An Aquarius version was also released, as was an M Network version called Astroblast for the Atari 2600. A musical adaptation, Melody Blaster, was released for the ECS Music Synthesizer.

Late in 1981, Mattel held a series of local "Intellivision VideoChallenge Tournaments" in Washington DC, Baltimore, New York, Philadelphia, Chicago and Los Angeles benefiting Variety Clubs International. Contestants competed for prizes (Grand Prize: an RCA projection TV) playing Major League Baseball, Auto Racing and U.S. Ski Team Skiing. The publicity was so good, that Marketing took the idea national in 1982 with the "$100,000 Astrosmash Shootoff." (presented by the press and in stickers in the box of the game itself).

From March until August 11, Intellivision owners were invited to send photographs of their TV screens showing their high score in Astrosmash. Just for entering, they would receive an Astrosmash Shootoff patch, and it was announced that 16 regional high-scorers would be flown to Houston to compete for eight cash prizes.

Over 13,000 people entered, and quickly it became obvious there was a problem. First, because of the scoring bug, many of the pictures showed scores made up of seemingly random ASCII characters. John Sohl had to review the photos and, with an ASCII table, decipher the actual scores. Second, it turned out that no one in Marketing realized that Astrosmash, like many Intellivision games, can be played at slower speeds simply by starting the game by pressing 1, 2, or 3 instead of the disc. (This is a feature programmed into the EXEC.) There was no way of telling who had legitimately obtained a high score and who had played at the easiest speed. There were reports of competitors who literally played for days at the slowest speed, pausing the game (pressing 1 and 9 simultaneously, also programmed into the EXEC) to sleep or go to school.

Unable to decide who was legit and who wasn't, instead of the announced 16, Mattel Electronics wound up flying 73 entrants to Houston for an all-expense paid weekend, September 11 & 12, 1982. There, the entrants competed in 1 hour of timed play.

18-year-old Manuel Rodriguez of Stockton, California won the US$25,000 top prize with a score of 835,180.

ATLANTIS

No. IM7203

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Pat Ransil
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982
Brazil launch: 01/1985

Alien spacecraft bombard the underwater city of Atlantis. Centuries of progress seem doomed. You man the defense installations. Night falls. Blinded by rage, you scramble into Atlantis' last defensive spaceship and fly into enemy-filled skies. How long can one ship survive against so many?

AUTO RACING

No. 1113 (Mattel)
No. 75205 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Larry Zwick
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/03/1980 (No. 9)
Brazil launch: 09/1984

Snap on your crash helmet, fire up your Formula I, and slam it into first. Power through the first turn and you're off on a Grand Prix class racing circuit.
The faster you push your race car the more alert you have to be. You may slide off the track and into a maze of grass and trees. You may find yourself skidding into a pond. Or you may find yourself halfway through a hairpin turn before you know it.

B-17 BOMBER

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No. 3884

1 player

Master Component
Intellivoice

" Design: John Sohl and Bob Del Principe, Bill Fisher and Steve Roney
" " Program: John Sohl, Bill Fisher, Stephen Roney
" " Graphic: Kai Tran, Peggi Decarli (map of Europe)
" " Sound: Bill Fisher
" " Voice of pilot: Phil Proctor
" " Voice of bombardie: Phil Austin
" " Working titles: Air Traffic Controller, Flying Fortress
" " USA launch: 07/23/1982

World War II action at 12 o'clock high as you fly a bombing mission deep inside Fortress Europe. You select your targets and switch from cockpit view to bomb bay view. the closer you get to your target the more flak and enemy planes you encounter. "Target in sight," you switch back to the bomb bay view "Bombs Away." Three voices, three different screens.

Despite published reports that this game came out of a brainstorming picnic in the park (TV Guide, June 19, 1982), John Sohl remembers it differently: The initial Intellivoice brainstorming session was held mid-1981 on the third floor of the main Mattel Toys building -- a floor with armed guards to keep spies from finding out Mattel's biggest secrets, such as what Barbie would be wearing next year. This session yielded three ideas that went into production: Space Spartans, Bomb Squad and Air Traffic Controller. John, fresh from Astrosmash, began work on Air Traffic Controller, although he wasn't enthusiastic about the concept: bringing a plane in for a landing based on feedback from the control tower. He was leaning toward using the alternate scenario developed for the game -- an oil tanker negotiating a foggy docking with feedback from the Harbor Master -- when Bob Del Principe, a graphics artist, came into his cubicle and suggested making the airplane a bomber on a mission over Europe. Now blowing stuff up was a concept John could get enthusiastic about! Within an hour, Air Traffic Controller turned into Flying Fortress.
By early 1982, John, with graphics artist Kai Tran, had developed an impressive bombing run simulation with revolutionary Intellivision effects, but the cartridge was oversize and the gameplay was still to be defined. Steve Roney and Bill Fisher, just off Space Spartans, were assigned to the game, now called B-17 Bomber, full-time. John, Steve and Bill worked up to the last minute -- literally -- to finish it. Unfortunately, most of John's fancy features (such as a turret gunner who could rotate 360 degrees) had to be cut in favor of gameplay. On April 23, 1982, two months overdue, on the day the program absolutely had to be shipped to the ROM factory in Arizona, programming frantically continued. (John recalls: "During the final week, and particularly the final day, I got the impression that everyone [in the department] was adding code or graphics to the game.") With less than an hour to go, they pronounced it finished (or, more accurately, "close enough"). An unsuspecting visitor to Mattel that day was Shanghaied, stuck in a cubicle and asked to try out the game. That 30 minutes of play was the extent of the game testing. The code was shipped, and everyone kept their fingers crossed that the bugs wouldn't be too bad. Luckily, they weren't, and B-17 Bomber was released to strong reviews.

The gauges screen was not intended to be in the game. It was a debugging tool, used by the programmers to check on the value of certain variables during the game. John liked it so much it became part of the finished product. But since this screen was never intended to be seen by the public, it wasn't coded to check for values overflowing, resulting in non-numeric characters showing up on the counters.
Early in the development of the game, John and Kai, just for fun, used Atari logos to mark targets on the map of Europe. No one noticed this when the marketing department displayed the unfinished game at the January 1982 Consumer Electronics Show. No one, that is, except the Atari legal team, who swooped into the Mattel booth and forced them to stop demonstrating the game.
One of the characters in the game has a pronounced Southern accent. A few customers, hearing the drawl "Buheee-Sevunteen Baaahmmmer" on the title screen, sent the cartridge back as defective. (The character, described in Joey Silvian's script as: "Southern accent, laid back, slow drawl even under fire, talks like sittin' in a cotton field on a sunny day watchin' the bees buzz," was voiced by Phil Austin, a member of The Firesign Theatre comedy group).
B-17 Bomber was not included when foreign versions of the Intellivoice games were recorded. In a rare show of good taste, Marketing decided that a game in which the goal is to drop bombs on France, Germany and Italy would be inappropriate for the European market.
At least one programmer was strongly opposed to Mattel releasing the game at all. In the main hallway of the programming department one day, numerous copies of a flyer appeared "announcing" the "logical follow-up" to B-17 Bomber: a Viet Nam game called Napalm the Babies. The flyer described how well Intellivision graphics could render burning flesh and how realistically Intellivoice could reproduce children's screams. The author of the flyer was, and remains, anonymous.

BEAMRIDER

No. M-005-02

1 to 4 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: David Rolfe
Production: Cheshire Engineering
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

An impenetrable shield of light, 99 sectors deep, is encompassing the planet. You, alone, must cruise from beam to beam, casting lariats of laser bolts into white saucers, red zig bombs, yellow chirpers and more! The quest: to penetrate the shield and restore space exploration to the planet. You have the skill! You have the daring! You are Beamrider!

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

No. IM7401

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Wendell Brown
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982

That big bully's got the girl. It's you to the rescue. Climb the building, floor by floor. But watch out! Our fearsome foe is angrily tossing boulders. Dodge them. Or squash them to score points. The higher you go, the harder the going gets. Best time to the top wins the game.

BLOCKADE RUNNER

No. 8030001-A-IN

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Stephen Willey
USA launch: 1983

Blockade Runner is a great visual concept in video games - play by yourself or team with a friend to bring home to earth four ships loaded with vital supplies. Enemy aliens have blockaded your route, so you must flash through a mine-filled asteroid belt to avoid destruction. You steer and shoot from your ship's nose-cone command post as the universe rushes past your eyes!

BODY SLAM! SUPER PRO WRESTLING

No. 9009

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve Ettinger
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Steve Huston
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1988

ALL RIGHT YOU CREEPS -- this is the one you've been waitin' for -- BODY SLAM!!! -- the roughest, fastest, wiiiiiildest game ever! Climb in the ring with one of the toughest, craziest ANIMALS in the WHOLE WORLD -- like JACK HAMMER, BARON VON THUD, and DR. PAIN!!! They look pretty funny, huh? Well, ha ha ha -- they want to TEAR YOUR LAUGHIN' HEAD OFF! Whatsa matter -- AM I SCARING YOU???!!! C'mon -- you can learn the moves: THE HEAD BUTT (OOOOO!!!) -- THE BAZOOKA PUNCH (BOOM!!!) -- THE SPIN HEAVE (HEEEEEE'S OUTTA HERE!!!!) -- Anything Goes!!!!!

- ARGHH!!! Pin Your Opponent in a Zany Free-For-All Match!
- OOOFF!!! Pick 'im Up! Spin 'im! Toss 'im Outta the Ring! Chase 'im Through the Blood-Thirsty Crowd!
- GLURK!!! 12 Tough, Bizarre Characters to Become or to Battle!
- UNNHH!!! 26 Different Moves to Master, from the defensive POSSUM ROLL to the devastating POWER KICK!
- YIPES!!! Play One-On-One or Tag Team!
- AACKK!!! 6 Skill Levels for Constant Challenge!
- UUULP!!! Battle a Friend or a Merciless Computer Controlled Opponent!
See youse in the ring, IF YOU GOT THE GUTS!

BOMB SQUAD

No. 3883

1 player

Master Component
Intellivoice

Design and Programming: Gene Smith, Shatao Lin
Graphic: Kai Tran
Sound: Russ Lieblich
Voice of Frank: Phil Proctor
Voice of Boris: Peter Bergman
Working titles: Juggernaut, Voice Bomb
USA launch: 1982

It's a race against time as you attempt to disarm the terrorist bomb before it destroys the city! The screen shows the bomb circuitry as voices heighten the tension. "Wrong part...they'll never do it in time...one minute till blast." Hurry, other lives besides your own hang in the balance.

BOXING

No. 1819 (Mattel)
No. 75221 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Tom Loughry
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/21/1981 (No. 22)
Brazil launch: 10/1984

Slip into the powerfully muscled body of the fighter of your choice. Maybe you'll go for a power slugger. Or an agile defender. Or a completely unpredictable fighter.
There's the bell! You're playing at championship speed, so the action is lightning fast. Feint, duck, block, then move in for a quick combination.
Remember that your fighter is using up precious energy. And each punch he takes has its toll. So use your brains as well as your brawn -- and keep your warrior in shape to go 15 rounds.

BUMP 'N' JUMP

No. 4688

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program, Graphic, Sound and Music: Dennis Clark and Joe Jacobs
Title screen graphics: Daisy Nguyen
Project coordination: Dave Warhol and Andy Sells
Licence: Based on the Data East arcade game
Production: Technology Associates
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 01/1985

The wackiest thing to happen to driving since rush hour! You're racing down a highway, but there's a traffic jam up ahead. You can bump the cars out of the way, or jump them to score points. But slow drivers aren't the only hazards on the road! You must jump over water, and debris dropped in your path by dumptrucks. And beware of the reckless driver! Get out of enough jams and you can stop at the gas station for a fill-up.

BURGERTIME

No. 4549

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Ray Kaestner
Graphic: Karen Nugent
Sound and Music: Bill Goodrich
Licence: Based on the Data East arcade game
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 1984

As the burger chef, you're out to build delicious hamburgers. As you run through the colorful maze assembling the ingredients, nothing can stop you. Except menacing hot dogs and pickles that are out to ruin the meal! Bury them under beef patties, lettuce and buns. Or, knock them out with pepper. Build four burgers and you're on to the next level.

Returning from vacation in August 1982 thinking he was going to start the Loco-Motion conversion, Ray Kaestner discovered he was going to do the BurgerTime conversion, instead. Scheduled to get married in December, Ray was determined to finish the job within three months so he wouldn't have to worry about deadlines and debugging during wedding preparations.
Three months was a tight schedule; Ray did it in two, a record for an Intellivision game in the Hawthorne office. The extra month gave him a chance to tinker with the timing of the game to get it just the way he wanted. (He didn't escape the game on his wedding day, though -- the groomsmen were playing it while waiting for the ceremony to begin.)

Data East did not have wide distribution for their arcade games, which had hurt when the Intellivision version of Lock 'N' Chase came out -- the name wasn't exactly a household word. But BurgerTime was so good that arcade giant Bally Midway licensed it and got the game into every arcade in America. Mattel had lucked out; it finally had the license to a hit game.

Marketing ordered BurgerTime ported to every system possible (to "all flavors"). M Network Atari 2600, IBM PC and handheld versions were released. Apple and Aquarius versions were also developed. A Commodore translation was ordered but never started. A Colecovision version, done at the Mattel Electronics French programming division, was eventually purchased and released by Coleco. (A later version for the original Nintendo system was unrelated to Mattel Electronics.)

BurgerTime was the first Intellivision cartridge not released as part of a game "network," although the box color, burgundy, matching that of Vectron, indicates that it was originally intended to be part of the Arcade Network. BurgerTime was initially released in the same style boxes of the game networks -- the covers opened like a book. Later copies of BurgerTime were sold in the cheaper, slightly shorter, end-opening boxes used for all subsequent cartridge releases. In Brazil, all Intellivision games were released with book-style boxes.

The popularity of BurgerTime was such that a sequel, PizzaTime, was ordered by Marketing. (Mattel Electronics was closed before programming could begin.) A different sequel, Diner, was released by INTV Corp..

BUZZ BOMBERS

No. 4436

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Mike Breen
Graphic: Monique Lujan-Bakerink, Peggi Decarli
Sound and Music: Bill Goodrich
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

You're out to extinguish an angry swarm of honey bees armed with only a spray can of bee repellent. As the bees buzz ever closer, you hit them with a blast of spray to turn them into pieces of honeycomb. The more honeycombs, the more points you score. Don't get stung.

CARNIVAL

No. 2488 (Coleco)
No. 7630 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Sega Enterprises, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1982

This game captures the fun, excitement, and sounds of an old-time shooting gallery. Blaze away at clay pipes, dancing bears and sitting ducks. But watch out, those aren't ordinary sitting ducks. They come to life when they reach the end of the gallery, and avenge themselves by eating from your limited supply of ammunition. How many can you shoot down?

CENTIPEDE

No. 70254

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Mark Kennedy
Graphic: Eric Wels
Sound: Russ Haft
Licence: Based on the Atari arcade game
USA launch: 1983

An insidious invasion of multiplying insects (Centipedes, Jumping Spiders, Poisonous Scorpions and Frenzied Fleas) pose different perils to the mushroom patch. Get out your Bug Blaster and save that Fungus!

CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS

No. 8200

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: John Fiddes, Patrick Aubry
Production: Nice Ideas (Mattel Electronics - France)
Working titles: 4-Player Tennis, Doubles Tennis
USA launch: 1986
Includes code from the previously released Tennis

You can play alone, against your Intellivision unit or with another player either in singles or in doubles. You can even let your Intellivision take both sides and just watch. Maybe you'll see some weakness.
Go ahead conquer Paris, New York, and Wimbledon if you can. You will need both great concentration and strong legs to win at Championship Tennis. Play locations such as Flushing Meadows, Roland Garros, Wimbledon. In Championship Tennis you are in charge. See if you have what it takes to win the "grand slam"!
Championship Tennis is an advanced version of the original, successful Intellivision Tennis. You will feel the tension and excitement of some of the great courts in the world, as you serve deep to your opponent's backhand and return a lob with a smashing overhead, just out of reach of your opponent's outstretched racquet. It will require skill, dexterity, cunning and wits along with plenty of practice to master Championship Tennis.

CHECKERS / DRAUGHTS

No. 1120 (Mattel)
No. 75215 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: David Rolfe
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 09/17/1980 (No. 8)
Released by Mattel in Great Britain as "Draughts"

Pit your skill and imagination against an opponent who can assess the board opposition in a few seconds and think several moves ahead.
The computer won't make a foolish mistake, but you can still beat it...if you concoct a strategy it can't handle.

CHIP SHOT: SUPER PRO GOLF

No. 8900

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve Ettinger
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987

Puts You On the Most Challenging Courses in the World!
- Two years in development by a team of golfers and programmers!
- Most sophisticated video game yet.
- Select an easy or a hard course, or put together your own from a selection of 99 holes, many based on the most famous holes in the world!
- Choose from a full bag of clubs!
- The wind can affect your shot; watch the flag to see which way it's blowing!
- You determine how hard the ball is hit, you determine if the ball hooks or slices!
- Watch out for trees, sand traps and water hazards.
- Close-up view of each green for putting.
- All the challenges and rewards of golfing.

COMMANDO

No. 9000

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: John Tomlinson
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Production: Realtime Associates
Licence: Data East USA Inc. and Capcom USA Inc.
USA launch: 1987

More Action Than We've Ever Before Packed Into a Single Game!
You're on foot, alone, armed with a machine gun and hand-grenades. Your goal: advance across deserts and jungles through swarm after swarm of well-armed enemy soldiers! The odds are impossible!

CONGO BONGO

No. 006-06

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Sega Enterprises, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1983

A funny thing happens when you play Congo Bongo, the new home game from Sega. In fact, a lot of funny things happen.
You have to get to Congo, the mighty ape, before the jungle beasts get to you. Dodge falling coconuts as you scale Monkey Mountain. Shake the monkey from your back and chase Congo onto the lagoon screen. Then cross the water on the backs of hippos, lily pads and hunter-eating fish. And do it all before Congo makes a monkey out of you.
But watch your step - one slip and it's off to hunter heaven.
Congo Bongo. Straight from the arcade and into your home. It's more fun than a barrel of, well, monkeys.

DEFENDER

No. 70252

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Peter Farson
Graphic: Eric Wels
Sound: Russ Haft
Licence: Based on the Williams Electronics Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1983

Landers, Bombers, Baiters, Pods and Swarmers. The alien attack has come and defeat at the hands of crazed invaders threatens the Humanoids. The planet's only hope is your spaceship, Defender.

DEMON ATTACK

No. IM7200

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Gary Kato
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982
Brazil launch: 01/1985

An awesome array of demons attacks a scientific colony on the Moon. You maneuver your laser cannon, destroying an entire army of cunning demons. Now you have but one choice...seek out the demon's home base and end their treachery forever! But as you approach their monstrous lair, your blood chills at an unspeakable horror, perhaps the last sight you'll ever see!

DIG DUG

No. 9005

1 player

Master Component

Program: Mark Kennedy
Production: Atari
Release version: Realtime Associates
Licence: Based on the Namco arcade game
USA launch: 1987

Burrow your way through a maze of subterranean passages, hunting the deadly Pooka and the fire-breathing Fygar! Break into their tunnels, shoot 'em with your air hose, pump 'em up and...POP! Simple? Not exactly, because now they're after you! Run away! Dig under that rock just ahead...time it just right...BAM! The rock falls on Fygar! All the thrills and fun of the original arcade hit!

DINER

No. 8800

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Ray Kaestner
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Keith Robinson
Production: Realtime Associates for INTV Corp.
Licence: BurgerTime trademark used under license from Data East USA, Inc.
USA launch: 1987
Includes code from the unreleased Masters of the Universe II
produced at Mattel Electronics

Peter Pepper, the brave chef from BURGERTIME is back! But so are the evil Hot Dogs and some NEW villains -- a cheap Cherry, a bad Banana and Mugsy, the Mug o' Root Beer. Peter needs your help to escape these Rotten Foods and get lunch onto the plate!

DONKEY KONG

No. 2471 (Coleco)
No. 7625-7 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Nintendo of America, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1982

In this engaging game, Donkey Kong the ape has captured Mario's girlfriend, and has taken her to the top of a steel fortress. You've got to get Mario to the top to save her! But - as he runs across the girders and up the ladders, the ape throws barrels at him to prevent his progress. mario must jump the barrels to get to the top and rescue his girlfriend!

DONKEY KONG JR.

No. ? (Coleco)
No. 76-376D (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Nintendo of America, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1983

DRACULA

No. 700018

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Alan Smith
Graphics Assistance: Wilfredo Aguilar
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

You are Count Dracula. Rise from your resting place in the graveyard and fly into the night! Travel in two forms - as a man or a bat. Wolves hound you when you are in human form, and vultures snatch at the bat you can become. You've got to sink your teeth into a victim soon. You're growing paler and slowing down. Constables throw stakes that'll stop you cold! Bite all the victims you can find, then return to your resting place before sunrise, or you'll never hunt again!

DRAGONFIRE

No. IM7603I

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Alan Smith
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982

Dreadful dragons control the King's castle! You, the young Prince, want them banished - but first you must reclaim the royal treasures. You have to cross castle bridges, dodging dragonfire as you go. Leap, duck and sprint to reach the other side!
Once across, enter a splendid storeroom. Pocket every treasure you touch. But beware of deadly dragonfire! Each dragon is smarter than the last, and some are almost invisible! How many bridges can you cross? How many storerooms can you empty?

FATHOM

No. 700026

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program and Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

Discover Neptune's Trident! But how? As a magical seagull, flap your wings and fly for shore. Grab speeding clouds but beware! Blackbirds and erupting volcanos thwart your every move. Find the Trident then head for the sea. Careful, danger lurks in the briny deep!
Take the plunge and swing your fin as an enchanted dolphin. Snarls of seaweed and sinister octopuses keep you from touching precious seahorses. Keep diving - magic awaits in the ocean depths.
At the bottom, a mermaid appears, trapped in a mystical cage. Free her with the magical Trident.

FROG BOG

No. 5301 (Mattel)
No. 75234 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Peter Kaminski, Tom Soulanille
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Working title: Frogs
USA launch: 05/25/1982 (No. 32)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

Sitting upon two lily pads in the middle of a lily pond are a pair of hungry frogs; one for you, one for your opponent. Overhead swarm delicious flies. Whether or not your frog scores his dinner while you rack up points is entirely up to you. You control the height and direction of his jump; even the flick of his long pink tongue. Leap too high or at the wrong angle and "Pl-op" your frog goes into the pond. He must swim back to his lily pad, taking away valuable scoring time while your opponent goes on racking up points. As play continues, night will come to the pond. Or, you can choose to play the entire round at night, leaping for fireflies -- in the dark.

FROGGER

No. 6300

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Sega Enterprises, Inc.
USA launch: 1983

Life isn't all lazy days and lily pads for a frog - it abounds with dangers. Guide your frantic frog home to safety in a madcap dash across a busy highway and a treacherous river. Fast and furious action is guaranteed to keep things hopping.

HAPPY TRAILS

No. M-003-02

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Carol Shaw
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

Dag nab it! That mangy critter Black Bart's robbed the stagecoach from Culver City and all heck's broke loose. Just when you're in hot pursuit, the trail you're ridin' on deadends into the side of the canyon. You've got to figger out another route by moving the puzzle parts to create a new trail, faster than you can say Happy Trails, pardner.

HORSE RACING

No. 1123 (Mattel)
No. 75209 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Chris Hawley
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting for Mattel Electronics
USA launch: 10/03/1980 (No. 12)

A great game of make-believe for up to 6 players. It's like spending a day at the races. Study the tout sheet. Pick a winner -- or a loser. The odds will change. Go for a long shot or play it safe. They're off and the excitement begins. Cheer your horse on. You could clean up -- on paper. A fun party game.

HOVER FORCE

No. 8500 (INTV Corp.)
No. 7742 (Mattel)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: Steve Ettinger, Joe (Ferreira) King
Program: Steve Ettinger
Graphic and Art: Joe King
Sound: David Warhol
USA launch: 1986
Developed at Mattel Electronics as Hover Force 3-D
Completed by Realtime Associates for INTV Corp.

TOP SECRET
TO: HOVER FORCE PILOTS
FROM: COL. N.K. NEWCOMBE
RE: MISSION INSTRUCTIONS

Terrorist helicopter forces have taken over the island city of New Seeburg. Luckily, civilians have been evacuated from the city, but the enemy is causing millions of dollars in damage. Fires are burning out of control throughout the island.
We're sending you in with a heavily armed combat helicopter. Your assignment:
- Use RADAR SCREEN to spot and track the enemy!
- Use LASER CANNONS to blast enemy copters out of the sky!
- Use WATER CANNONS to put out fires from mid-air!
- Cover hundreds of square miles ridding the city of terrorists and fires for highest RATING.
- Aim carefully! Your wild shots can damage the city and lower your rating!
- Use STRATEGY! There are over 20 different types of enemy copters, each with its own skill level and flight pattern! You need your BRAINS to catch up with them!
- Fly repeated missions, each more difficult than the one before.
One last warning: these guys will be gunning for YOU. And this isn't some game, this is combat. None of this "three lives" foolishness. Crash your copter and it's all over -- you're finished.
So watch your tail out there. Now, let's scramble!

Hover Force 3-D was developed under greater secrecy than any other Mattel game. Researcher Richard Steenblik working at the University of Georgia had developed pseudo-3-D glasses. Small prisms in the glasses bent different colors of light entering the eye at different angles, fooling the eye into thinking that, for example, blue objects on a flat surface were actually farther away than red objects on the same surface. The University approached several game manufacturers to see if they were interested in the technology. After a middle-of-the-night test session in which Keith Robinson (Solar Sailer) quickly threw together an Intellivision screen full of flying bugs of different colors, Mattel management decided to aggressively pursue an exclusive license for the glasses.

Game development was ordered to start immediately, before the license was secured. For fear that a competitor would find out and try to outbid Mattel, the project was kept top secret, even from the other programmers. It was code named "Peach" since the glasses originated in Georgia, the Peach State. Steve Ettinger and Joe King, who had worked well together on Magic Carousel, were given a locked, windowless office in which to work (the rest of the software staff worked in open cubicles); it was quickly dubbed "The Bat Cave."

Midway through the project, Mattel won the license and Peach emerged from the cave. The 3-D effect, while not eye-poppingly dramatic, was effective, especially given the visual cues Steve and Joe had designed. And Dave "Papa Intellivision" Chandler's group had developed an inexpensive method to manufacture the glasses, making it practical for the game and glasses to be sold together at the price of a normal cartridge. Marketing felt they could strongly promote the 3-D feature in ads and the press.

Hover Force 3-D debuted at the January 1984 Consumer Electronic Show to good response. While the 3-D effect got mixed reviews, everyone was talking about it. Management immediately started talking about putting two more 3-D games into development, including a flight simulator cartridge, but before anything could be started, Mattel Electronics closed.

For the INTV Corp. release of the game in 1986, Steve and producer Dave Warhol beefed up the "intelligence" of the enemy helicopters, adding more strategy to the play. Since the glasses were not included with the game, "3-D" was dropped from the title.

ICE TREK

No. 710012

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Patrick Schmitz
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

The legendary Nordic hero travels toward the isolated, sinister Ice Palace. He must cross miles of frozen tundra. Massive herds of caribou thunder by him. He tries to ski around them. If he must kill a caribou, the great and unforgiving Wildlife Goddess rises to avenge the loss! He must bridge a frigid lake, using a huge hook to catch and link floating icebergs. He must destroy other icebergs that can crash into his bridge!
When he reaches the Ice Palace, he assaults that loathsome landmark with enchanted fireballs! He must evade spikes hurled at him and melt the Ice Palace!

KOOL-AID MAN

No. 4675

1 player

Master Component

Design: Mark Kennedy, Vladimir Hrycenko
Program: Mark Kennedy
Graphic: Monique Lujan-Bakerink
Licence: General Foods Corporation
USA launch: 1983

Two children are trapped in a haunted house. A pair of insatiable THIRSTIES roam around trying to catch them! Help the children avoid the dangerous THIRSTIES and collect all the makings for a batch of KOOL-AID soft drink mix. Hooray! KOOL-AID MAN comes to the rescue! From then on -- the THIRSTIES, plus PHANTOM FLAVORS get chased by KOOL-AID MAN!

On December 6, 1982, all of the programmers and graphic artists were herded into a conference room and shown a series of TV commercials -- the new Kool-Aid ad campaign. It was announced that Marketing had made a tie-in deal to release Intellivision and M Network Atari 2600 Kool-Aid Man cartridges. The games were scheduled to be ready in about 6 months, which meant that programming had to begin immediately. Worse, they wanted game-screen mockups to appear in the 1983 Mattel Electronics catalog at the Consumer Electronics Show -- one month away. A two-week contest to come up with the best game concept was announced. Separate ideas were developed for Intellivision and Atari 2600.

This led to a confrontation with Marketing. The programmers' viewpoint was that the features of a game should be tailored to the system it would be played on, to take full advantage of the system's strengths. Marketing, on the other hand, wanted games designed for multiple systems, with the features being the same on each system. If a game couldn't be ported to other systems, it shouldn't be done on any system.

The programmers argued that this meant all games would have to be designed for the lowest common denominator -- the Atari 2600. Marketing argued that keeping the features the same would make games easier to advertise and make word-of-mouth among customers more favorable.

This was the programmers' chance to make a stand, insisting that because of the tight schedule, the Intellivision and Atari versions of Kool-Aid Man would have to be developed independently and differently -- there was no time to create a design that could be implemented on both systems.

Reluctantly, Marketing agreed, and two entirely different versions of Kool-Aid Man were developed, designed to take best advantage of each system. The winning design for the Intellivision version came from programmer Vladimir Hrycenko (Convoy). Steve Tatsumi did the design and program for Atari Kool-Aid Man.

Programming won the battle, but Marketing won the war -- they never again allowed different versions of a game tailored for different systems.

And, well, it looks like they were right. To this day, people still seem upset that the two Kool-Aid Man games are different. Go figure.

LADY BUG

No. 2483 (Coleco)
No. 76323 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Universal Co. Ltd. arcade game
USA launch: 1983

In this game, you direct a lady bug through a maze. While eating dots, she must avoid running over the poisonous skulls and encountering the evil insects which are out to devour her. Revolving doors permit her to change the maze, thwart her pursuers and get through!

LAS VEGAS POKER & BLACKJACK

No. 2611 (Mattel)
No. 75222 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: David Rolfe
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 08/25/1980 (No. 3)
Brazil launch: 11/1983
AKA Poker & Blackjack

From the shuffle of the cards...to the clinking of the coins...to the felt green of the gaming table...to the shifty eyes of the dealer, Intellivision has captured the flavor and the color of casino card games.
Play poker! Five card stud or draw. Seven card stud. This dealer plays tough. He raises, drops, even bluffs. Play carefully because he'd like nothing better than to empty your wallet.
When you've had enough poker, relax with a few hands of blackjack. Play real casino style and double down when you feel hot!

LAS VEGAS ROULETTE

No. 1118 (Mattel)
No. 75208 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: John Brooks
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/03/1980 (No. 11)
AKA Roulette

Can you parlay your pile of chips into a fortune? Do you dare risk it all on a single number that you just know is due to come up on the next spin of the wheel? Here's a great party game with all the sound and color of the big casino. Place your "bets"...all "bets" down? Then here goes the big wheel of fortune -- clickety-click-click -- and cross your fingers as the wheel slows and the ball bounces toward your lucky number.

LEARNING FUN I

No. 9002

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: David Warhol
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987
Includes code from the previously released Electric Company MathFun

Two exciting games in one cartridge that strengthen your math skills while you have fun! Battle math problems to arrive at answers in MATH MASTER! Or use given answers to create math problems in FACTOR FUN! Race the clock or an opponent! Skill levels can be set for players of any age -- first graders to adult!
MATH MASTER is an improved version of the previously released MATH FUN. FACTOR FUN is an entirely new game!

LEARNING FUN II

No. 9006

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: David Warhol
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987
Includes code from the previously released Electric Company MathFun

Four exciting games in one game cartridge that strengthen your spelling and memory skills while you have fun!

- CROSSWORDS: Build words from a random jumble of letters!
- WORD ROCKETS: Exercise both manual dexterity with spelling skills -- launch vowel "rockets" to complete words!
- WORD HUNT: Scramble through a jungle, finding letters to build words!
- MEMORY FUN: Uncover hidden letters two at a time, looking for letters that match. A challenge to your memory!

CROSSWORDS, WORD ROCKETS, and WORD HUNT are enhanced versions of games previously released as WORD FUN. MEMORY FUN is an entirely new game!

LOCK 'N' CHASE

No. 5637

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Julie Hoshizaki, Mike Winans
Graphic: Peggi Decarli
Sound and Music: Bill Goodrich
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Based on the Data East arcade game
USA launch: 07/09/1982 (No. 34)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

A fast-action chase game as you maneuver your thief through the maze, picking up coins and other treasures. Billy-club swinging cops are in hot pursuit, but you can temporarily escape them by locking gates behind you. The longer you survive, the more valuable the treasures become.

In the arcade version, the thief is named Lupin, but not in the Mattel Electronics version. Why not? In the early 1900s, French author Maurice LeBlanc wrote a series of books featuring Arsene Lupin: Gentleman Thief. The books became popular in Japan, where they later inspired a series of comic books that were even more popular. The problem: the comic books were not authorized by LeBlanc. At the time, it was difficult enforcing a French copyright in Japan, so Lupin entered Japanese culture, eventually becoming synonymous with the word "thief." The copyright was enforced in the United States, though, where the Japanese Lupin comics developed a following. In English translations, the name Lupin is often changed to Rupin to avoid the copyright problem. For the game Lock 'N' Chase, Mattel avoided the copyright problem by leaving out the name altogether.

An insignificant typo almost caused Mattel to dump tens of thousands of dollars of perfectly good ROMs and to delay the release of Lock 'N' Chase by several months. Why? First, some background:
The legal department required programmers to include an ASCII copyright notice somewhere in every game so that it could be read if someone dumped the cartridge's object code. Traditionally, if there was room, the programmer would also include his or her name. (It was forbidden to hide your name in the game such that it could ever show up on screen, but object code was OK.) For Lock 'N' Chase, Mike included his, Peggi's, and Bill's name in the code. The day the game was to be shipped to the ROM factory, the three of them went to lunch to celebrate. At lunch, Mike realized for the first time that Peggi's last name is spelled "Decarli." He had spelled it "de Carli" in the code. No problem; he went back after lunch, corrected it, then bid everyone farewell and went off to his new job in Design & Development.
What Mike didn't know was that Bill Fisher, who was in charge of coordinating with the factory, had copied the finished game off of Mike's hard disk during lunch and shipped it out.
Three months later, ten thousand plus ROMs were finished. Sample chips were sent back from the factory. Bill loaded one into a ROM reader, then compared the chip's checksum to the checksum of the archived version on Mike's hard disk. To Bill's horror, they didn't match. There was a bug in the ROMs!
Programmers started playing the game for hours on end, trying to see how bad the bug was -- would the game crash? Marketing needed to know instantly if the game was releasable. Should they toss out tens of thousands of dollars worth of chips and lose at least three months time, or should they risk the bad publicity of sending out a bug-filled version?
Finally, after a couple days of panic and anxiety, they asked Mike to come up from Design & Development to help track down the bug. After working on the problem for awhile, he slowly remembered lunch that day three months earlier. Learning how to spell Peggi's name....
Mike went to the archived version of the game, changed "Decarli" back to "de Carli" and recompiled the program. Now the checksums matched. Crisis averted, the cartridges went out.

LOCO-MOTION

No. 4438

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Daniel Bass
Graphic: Dan Bass, Joe Ferreira
Sound and Music: Andy Sells
Track layouts: Dan Bass, Mark Buchignani
Licence: Based on the Konami arcade game
USA launch: 1983

An exciting version of the popular Loco-Motion arcade game. You're the engineer deftly guiding your train through scrambled track. You must put the right tracks together to help the train continue safely on its way to pick up passengers. And, you must avoid the crazy train! Non-stop fun as you race to beat the time schedule.

With Atari having most of the good arcade games sewn up, Mattel had to compete with other video game manufacturers for whatever was left over. Upon seeing the Konami arcade game Loco-Motion (one was moved into the Applications Software department in Summer 1982), the programmers and Marketing felt this was a great game for an Intellivision conversion -- it was fun, unique, and "doable" with our technology.
Marketing shelled out big cash to beat out some other bidders for the rights and Ray Kaestner was chosen to do the conversion. Ray was set to take two weeks of vacation in August, so he was scheduled to begin work on Loco-Motion upon his return.
But Dan Bass, who was working on the ECS game Wall Street at the time, became addicted to the Loco-Motion arcade machine and decided he had to do the Intellivision version. Not knowing that Ray had already been picked for the job, Dan set out to get it. In about a week, he secretly put together a demo of the game mechanism, then presented it to management.
Based on the quality of the demo, Dan was pulled off of Wall Street and given the higher-priority Loco-Motion. Ray Kaestner returned from vacation to find that he was off the game. VP Gabriel Baum and Director Don Daglow (Utopia) apologized to Ray and gave him a consolation prize: the job of converting the arcade game BurgerTime.

Everyone was excited about Loco-Motion and Marketing was prepared for a big advertising campaign. Then, just as Loco-Motion was going to ROM manufacturing (a three-month process), Activision released an Intellivision game called Happy Trails.
As far as most people at Konami and Mattel were concerned, Happy Trails was a blatant rip-off of Loco-Motion, actionably so. The programmers and Marketing personnel happily anticipated a lawsuit that would shut Activision down. But no lawsuit was ever filed. Why not?
A Mattel lawyer claimed the problem was that Konami and Mattel couldn't agree on who should file (and pay) for the suit. Mattel felt that since Konami owned the game, Konami should sue. Konami's position, according to the lawyer, was that essentially Mattel was the damaged party (Konami got a huge guaranteed royalty whether the game sold or not); it was Mattel's responsibility to sue.
So no one sued, and Activision got credit for their "originality" in the overwhelmingly good reviews Happy Trails received. Marketing dropped plans for the big push on Loco-Motion, and got rid of the large number of ROMs that had been ordered by discount pricing the cartridge.

An M Network Atari 2600 version was in development but never released.

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

No. 2614 (Mattel)
No. 75202 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: David Rolfe
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Major League Baseball Promotion Corp.
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 09/04/1980 (No. 5)
Re-released by INTV Corp. as Big League Baseball (INTV #2614)

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!

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: THE POWER OF HE-MAN

No. 4689

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Rick Koenig, Ray Kaestne
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound and Music: Joshua Jeffe
Licence: Mattel Toys
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 01/1985

Fly HE-MAN in his WIND RAIDER on a hair-raising dash in pursuit of SKELETOR. Avoid running out of fuel as you outmaneuver, bomb or blast away the fireballs coming at you -- while bombing SKELETOR on the ground below. If you get HE-MAN near enough to CASTLE GRAYSKULL he fights on foot with just his shield -- through lightning-balls, power-bolts and magic swords -- to get at SKELETOR!

The Intellivision III routines that Ray used and the special graphics routines Rick independently developed for the game -- all of which bypassed the EXEC -- moved objects on screen smoother and faster than in standard Intellivision games. Marketing dubbed this improved look SuperGraphics, hoping it would help in the competition with the higher resolution Colecovision. While Masters of the Universe was the first (and only) game to carry the SuperGraphics logo on the box, Marketing liked the designation so much they started using it even before Masters came out to promote any game -- beginning with BurgerTime -- that simply had nice graphics and animation. At the June 1983 Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago, nearly every Intellivision game on display -- Buzz Bombers, Thin Ice, Mission X -- carried the SuperGraphics logo.

At the beginning of the video game boom, Mattel Electronics worked hard to keep the names of its programmers secret, for fear Atari, Imagic or Activision would lure them away. But by 1983, this secrecy was pretty much meaningless -- headhunters had learned the identities of every company's roster (often bribing employees hundreds of dollars for copies of internal phone lists). Sure that everyone knew their identities but the public, and rankled by Activision's publicizing of their designers, the Blue Sky Rangers started pushing for names on cartridges.
The cause was helped by an editorial in the June 1983 Electronic Games magazine, written by Arnie Katz, which called upon the game companies to reveal the programmers: "All designers of electronic games are just as much creative artists as painters and novelists...Why shouldn't the creator of such a work of art be entitled to put his or her name on it to reap the praise and brickbats of gaming consumers?"
Copies of the editorial appeared throughout Applications Software pinned to programmers' cubicles. More importantly, on May 11, a few days after the magazine had hit the newsstands, VP Gabriel Baum forwarded a copy to the Senior Vice Presidents, with a brief note supporting it: "The names of our key personnel are available to any investigative headhunter and I believe that we are more likely to retain employees than to lose them by publicly recognizing their connection with a cartridge. I also believe that our Marketing group could use programmer/designer recognition to their advantage."
On May 27, Mattel Electronics announced credits would appear on future game packages.
Masters of the Universe: The Power of He-Man, the Intellivision and M Network Atari 2600 versions, were the first cartridges in which the design teams received credit on the packaging. The Intellivision box lists Ray, Rick, Connie and Josh, plus "Project Coordinator" (what today would be called Producer) Mark Urbaniec

MELODY BLASTER

No. 4540

1 player

Master Component
Music Synthesizer
ECS

Design and Programming: Rick Sinatra
Music: Hal Cannon
Working title: Astromusic
USA launch: 1983

The musical version of the popular video game, Astrosmash. And a fun, new way to learn musical notation. As musical notes fall from the sky in the pattern of a popular song, you must play the right keys to shoot them down. The faster you shoot down the notes, the faster you're learning to play your favorite songs!

MICROSURGEON

No. 700013

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Rick Levine
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982

The patient is critically ill! You navigate the Robot Probe through the patient's blood stream, outmaneuvering white blood cells that attempt to slow you down. Remove a tumor from the brain, a blood clot from near the heart and much more! But hurry! To save the patient's life, you must act quickly!

MIND STRIKE

No. 4531

1 or 2 players

Master Component
ECS

Design, Programming, Sound and Music: David Warhol
Graphic: Connie Goldman, Joe King, Peggi Fiebig
Gameboard design: David Warhol, Mark Buchignani
Working title: Mindstrike
USA launch: 1983

A futuristic, 3-dimensional space version of a chessboard game. Pit your skill against a computer, or another player. Alternate turns with your opponent or move simultaneously for a fast-action game. You can even sit back and watch the computer play itself. Use the keyboard to program the computer opponent to match your skill as you master the game. Select from over 50 challenging game boards.

MISSION X

No. 4437

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: John Tomlinson
Graphic: Karen Nugent, Mark Buczek
Sound: Andy Sells
Licence: Based on the Data East arcade game
USA launch: 1983

You're flying a top secret bombing raid over enemy territory. Your mission: To wipe out the enemy battleships, tanks, artillery guns and bridges that come into view as you sweep over the country. Watch out for enemy flak and gunfire! Touch down and go at it again. Fly during the day, or attempt a dangerous night mission.

MOTO-CROSS

No. 3411

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: Rick Koenig, Rick Levine
Program: Rick Koenig
Graphic: Joe Ferreira, Rick Levine
Sound: Mark Urbaniec
Working title: MX
USA launch: 1983

Speeding up the long straights, blasting through tight S turns, or hurling across wild jumps, you're meant to eat dirt and claim victory! What a racing bike you've got! The competition is fierce, the terrain is rough. Challenge your toughest adversary, then leave him behind, as you cross the finish line!

MOUNTAIN MADNESS: SUPER PRO SKIING

No. 9007

1 to 6 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Ray Kaestner
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Steve Huston
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1988
Includes code from the previously released US Ski Team Skiing

The thrills and excitement of a day on the slopes! Explore the turns and obstacles of unknown courses or slalom through flags at breakneck speeds to beat the clock! All the fun without the lift lines!

MOUSE TRAP

No. 2479 (Coleco)
No. 7629-9 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Exidy Incorporated arcade game
USA launch: 1982

This unusual maze game puts you in control of a mouse who must be guided through a labyrinth of doors and corridors. As it goes, the mouse eats cheese bits and tries to avoid the ravenous cats. At times, the mouse can transform into a dog and go after the cats! A secret tunnel also offers escape. And you can even open or close groups of doors to change the maze and get the mouse through.

MR. BASIC MEETS BITS 'N BYTES

No. 4536

1 or 2 players

Master Component
ECS

Design: Design & Development Department
USA launch: 1983

An introduction to computers and BASIC programming through the fun of a video game. Control "Mr. BASIC" and capture the "Bits" and "Bytes" in one of three exciting games. Learn to write simple programs on the Computer Keyboard. Or, use the hand controllers just for fun. These programs use our unique color-coded graphics system to make learning programming as easy as a game.

NASL SOCCER

No. 1683 (Mattel)
No. 75206 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Kevin Miller
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: NASL Marketing, Inc.
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 09/04/1980 (No. 6)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

A well executed drive down the soccer field is a thing of beauty. The man with the ball jukes, whirls, passes to his teammate. The teammate dribbles toward the goal until he attracts a crowd of opponents. Then he passes to a third man who sets up the score.
The game action is as realistic as the excitement of Pro Soccer -- minus the black 'n blue shins.

NBA BASKETBALL

No. 2615 (Mattel)
No. 75203 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Ken Smith
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: NBA Properties, Inc. and the National Basketball Association
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 08/25/1980 (No. 1)
Brazil launch: 09/1984

Two teams square off at mid-court. Up they go for the jump ball. It's tipped to your team. You fake, drive, and move in for a slam dunk!
Each three man team of remarkably realistic athletes can dribble. Pass in any direction, jump, block, steal...even take a casual set shot when they've caught the other guys napping.
Four action-packed quarters -- plus overtime when needed!

NFL FOOTBALL

No. 2610 (Mattel)
No. 75201 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Ken Smith, Glyn Anderson (instant replay feature)
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: National Football League Properties, Inc.
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 08/27/1980 (No. 2)

The whistle blows! The crowd roars! The two teams sprint onto the field and line up for the opening kickoff.
Your ball, first and ten on the twenty yard line. Will you grind out the yardage on the ground...or risk a long bomb for a quick score? You and your opponent can choose from over 180 offensive and defensive plays -- so it's as much a game of strategy as execution.
Two full halves of fun. With all the refinements of passing, punting, end runs and razzle-dazzles. The computer keeps track of time and score, and the crowd lets you know what it thinks of your performance.

NHL HOCKEY

No. 1114 (Mattel)
No. 75204 (Sears)

2 players

Master Component

Program: Ken Smith
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: NHL Services, Inc.
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/03/1980 (No. 10)

Your opponent has a man in the penalty box, so it's time to push hard on offense. There's the whistle! Time to move down the ice. Your team mows toward the opposing goal in perfect formation, nudging the puck back and forth as defenders move in.
You're across the blue line. You send a pass across the front of the goal, then...wham! a screaming slap shot whips past the goalie and in for the score.
The crowd roars its approval. And the buzzer announces the end of the game. You won! A little practice and you'll be ready for the big time.

NIGHT STALKER

No. 5305 (Mattel)
No. 75236 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve Montero
Graphic: Peter Allen
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Sound: Russ Lieblich
Working title: Attacker
USA launch: 05/16/1982 (No. 29)
Brazil launch: 10/1984

You're on the run. Your attackers are relentless robots. Destroy one and it's replaced by an even smarter, faster robot. It's a nightmare. Your only defenses are avoidance and weapons found somewhere in the labyrinth. When one weapon empties, you avoid robots to find another. Duck around a corner or go into your safe house. But, be careful. There are also people-size spiders and their webs to slow your escape. Bats also wing their way at you. If either spiders or bats bite you, you're stunned; easier prey for the robot attackers.

NOVA BLAST

No. 700022

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Wendell Brown
Graphics Assistance: Karen Elliott
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

Pilot Nova 1 above the Capsuled Cities. Defend 4 cities in your quadrant. Use your radar to detect enemy activity. Race to protect these civilized outposts before their capsules are destroyed! Engage the enemy in galactic dogfights. Locate anti-aircraft guns and destroy them. Beam up fuel as you run low.

PAC-MAN

No. 70251 (Atarisoft)
No. 8000 (INTV Corp.)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Mike Winans
Graphic: Eric Wels
Sound: Russ Haft
Licence: Based on the Bally/Midway arcade game licensed by Namco
USA launch: 1983

The refinements of dot chomping lead to high scores as hungry Pac-Man avoids ambush by vicious goblins. All the fun and excitement of the real arcade version!

PBA BOWLING

No. 3333 (Mattel)
No. 75223 (Sears)

1 to 4 players

Master Component

Program and Graphic: Mike Minkoff, Rick Levine
Sound: John Sohl
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Professional Bowlers' Association
USA launch: 07/31/1981 (No. 21)

Warm up by picking up some tricky spares. Now you're ready for ten frames of championship bowling. Select the bail weight you prefer. Decide how "slick" you want the alley. Take a few deep breaths and...you're up!
Aim carefully allowing for loft and curve. Release nice and smooth, and watch the ball plunge into the sweet part of the pocket. Strike! Keep it up, score 200, and you'll get a rousing fanfare.

PGA GOLF

No. 1816 (Mattel)
No. 75207 (Sears)

1 to 4 players

Master Component

Program: Scott Bishop
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Professional Golfers' Association of America
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 11/05/1980 (No. 18)

Stand steady at the tee...head down...slow backswing. Now, drive your tee shot 220 yards down the fairway, splitting a pair of sandtraps. Loft a five iron onto the green. And sink a twenty foot putt for a birdie!
You control the swing and aim throughout 9 championship quality holes. The fairways and greens are beautifully manicured, but the sand traps are deep...and the rough is...rough!

PINBALL

No. 5356

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Bob Newstadt, Minh Chou Tran
Graphic: Monique Lujan-Bakerink, Peggi Decarli
Sound: Mark Urbaniec
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

A challenging and exciting video version of the time-honored Pinball machine you find in arcades. You get it all -- five balls, flippers, two- player scores, with all the sounds and action of the real thing. If you've ever "tilted" a real pinball machine, try our Pinball. You're in for some surprises and a whale of a lot of fun.

PITFALL!

No. M-002-02

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: David Crane
USA launch: 1982
Brazil launch: 11/1984

Danger lurks at every turn, as Pitfall by Activision brings a jungle no-man's land to life for your Intellivision. Jump into the shoes of Pitfall Harry, as he leads you on an incredible adventure in search of lost treasures. You'll race against time, through this hostile jungle, fighting off hungry crocodiles! Deadly snakes and scorpions! Treacherous tar pits and quicksand! Run, leap, swing from vines! And with any luck, you might even survive.

POLE POSITION

No. 9004

1 player

Master Component

Program: Mark Urbaniec
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Danny Brauer
Licence: Based on the arcade game by Namco
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1988

Take the controls and wait for the green light. 3...2...1...YOU'RE OFF! Your engine roars! Shift into high, weave through the pack, and pull out into the open! A tight curve! Tires scream! You start to skid -- and another car is right in front of you! Swerve onto the grass, race ahead, then back onto the track just before smashing into a road sign! Gun it -- seconds count -- and you're across the finish line in record time! But that was just the qualifying lap...

POPEYE

No. 6370

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Nintendo of America, Inc. arcade game
Licence: King Features Syndicate, Inc.
USA launch: 1983

Climb aboard and join Popeye as you race him through a crazy maze in pursuit of Olive Oyl's falling hearts. The more hearts you help him catch, the higher your score. Of course, it won't be easy with Brutus and the Sea Hag around! Lead Popeye to his spinach in time and it's curtains for this pesky pair. If not - it's into the briny deep for this sailor! A fast and fun game for all ages!

Q*BERT

No. 6360

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: D. Gottlieb & Co.
USA launch: 1983

All the action and excitement of the popular arcade game are here! Hop Q*bert up and down a pyramid of cubes, changing colors on each of the cube tops. When they're all the same color, Q*bert moves to a new - and more difficult - pyramid. But strange characters want to stop Q*bert from his fanciful mission. You'll have to do some fast hopping in this quick and "quasy" game!

REVERSI

No. 5304

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Greg Favor
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Working title: Othello
USA launch: 05/11/1982 (No. 31)
Brazil launch: 09/1984

Three levels of difficulty insure you'll be playing Reversi for a long, long time. Your objective is to take control of the board. Your opponent is either another player or the computer. Either way, it's great fun. As the game progresses, the playing pieces switch from black to white or white to black depending on which player takes control. Your score is continuously displayed on the screen.

RIVER RAID

No. MZ-007

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: Carol Shaw
Program: Peter Kaminski
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

The enemy has positioned a series of bridges across the river to ensure a supply line. Your orders are to destroy those bridges, and demolish choppers, tankers, and jets that patrol along the waterway. As you advance, the canyon narrows and the enemy gets smarter. Stay alert, the enemy never sleeps. And any mistake you make could be your very last. River Raid. Can you make it?

ROYAL DEALER

No. 5303

1 player

Master Component

Program: Rich O'Keefe
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technology Consultants
Working titles: Cards, Card Fun
USA launch: 1982 (No. 37)

If you don't always have someone to play cards with and you're not challenged enough by Solitaire, this cartridge introduces you to three players and three different card games: Hearts, Rummy and Crazy Eights. Your computer deals the cards and keeps score. You can choose to play against one, two or three players.

Recreating the bug discussed above was outlined in a September 30, 1982 memo from game tester Traci Roux to Joel Crain, head of Quality Assurance:

The following steps lead to the problems with Royal Dealer. They occur in all four games.

1. You are rearranging your cards and have a card out of the deck. Then one of the players lays down her final card and that round ends.

2. The new round starts and you hit the disk. The card from the last hand appears. Depending on how you rearrange and throw your cards, different errors can occur. (If you hit rearrange first, the game will progress normally, and the errors never occur.) The errors that occur are:

a. You can rearrange the blank cards that are displayed. If you rearrange enough times,the program gets confused and the screen blanks out. You have to hit reset to start over.

b. Sometimes when you lift up a card to rearrange, you see it where the card was. This usually occurs if this is one card by itself.

c. If you have to draw 15 cards and they are all in a row, it usually will not let you pass. The result is that you have to hit reset to start over.

d. In Rummy, if you win the round the music plays and the card screen comes up. The screen doesn't show "GIN" by your hand and a card shows up in your final hand that wasn't there before. Results are that you can't continue to the next hand, and you have to hit reset to start over.

e. If a gap appears between your cards, you cannot get to the cards on the left side of the gap. The gap will go away if you can discard your cards on the right of the gap. If you need a heart, for example, and you draw until you have 15 cards, you may have to pass. If there is a heart on the left side of the gap, you cannot get to it, the program sees the heart, and will not allow you to pass. The result is you have to hit reset to start over.

Because of this bug, the following errata slip was added to the packaging: "Please correct your instruction booklet on Page 2 to read: You can only rearrange your cards each time it is your turn before playing or discarding a card from your hand. Once you have played or discarded, you must wait until your next turn before rearranging your cards."

SAFECRACKER

No. 700025

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Marvin Mednick
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 06/1983

You're the super spy and your mission - recapture sensitive stolen documents, top secret equipment, and gold! Cruise the city streets in your limousine but watch out - enemy secret police are on the hunt...for you! Keep an eye peeled for the building where the secrets are stored then slip inside.
Can you crack the combination? Maybe you should blow it open, or would that bring enemy agents down on you? Run for it! The chase is on. Can you keep ahead of them? Your gunfire says maybe so. But watch out! Your car careens mighty close to one curb...can you pull it off, or will you do time in a foreign prison?

SCOOBY DOO'S MAZE CHASE

No. 4533

1 or 2 players

Master Component
ECS

Design and Programming: Mark Kennedy
Graphic: Connie Goldman, Mark Buczek, Monique Lujan-Bakerink
Licence: Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
Working titles: Three Blond Mice, Three Blind Mice
USA launch: 1983

You're Scooby-Doo chasing ghosts through a baffling maze. When suddenly you discover you're the one being chased -- by the evil skull and crossbones. Drop magic obstacles to slow the Jolly Roger's pursuit. Choose from 10 preprogrammed mazes. Or, use the computer keyboard to create your own.

SEA BATTLE

No. 1818 (Mattel)
No. 75213 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Ken Smith
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/03/1980 (No. 14)

Destroyers, battleships, submarines, minesweepers, and aircraft carriers! You're the Admiral, and your mission is to rid the seas of the enemy fleet.
Start by setting a strategy. Lay invisible minefields where you think the big enemy ships will travel. But be careful, because the other Admiral is laying mines to foil you...
Battle stations! Now you slug it out with shells, torpedoes, and naval tactics. Sleek battleships are waiting to pounce on sluggish minesweepers. You can't relax for a minute.
But who worries about the torpedoes, you say. Full speed ahead!

SEWER SAM

No. 8030002

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Stephen Willey
USA launch: 1983

One or two players compete to guide Sewer Sam through myriad mazes of danger-filled tunnels searching for...beep, beep, beep...three enemy submarines that have invaded the city's sewer system. But watch out for subterranean dangers, as Sam dodges and shoots snakes, crocodiles, bats, rats, web-spinning spiders, and more! Enough to make even the stout-hearted shudder...as Sam searches through wet and dry tunnels for the ultimate showdown!

SHARK! SHARK!

No. 5787

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Ji-Wen Tsao
Sound and Music: Andy Sells
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Working titles: Shark
USA launch: 12/06/1982 (No. 42)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

It's survival of the fittest in the deep, dark waters of the ocean. And you're just a little fish! You must eat smaller fish to stay alive and grow. But you're not the only one struggling for survival. Bigger fish are out to eat you. Beware, the most feared predator of all is on your tail. Shark, Shark! One or two-player action.

SHARP SHOT

No. 5638

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Frank Evans
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Working titles: Poww, Zzap!
USA launch: 10/28/1982 (No. 42)

An exciting new target shooting game specially designed for children. There are four different shooting ranges for one or two players. Hit the pass receiver. Shoot down the spinning spacecraft. Bomb Navy ships. Fire at the maze monsters. Challenging action for video game beginners.

SLAM DUNK: SUPER PRO BASKETBALL

No. 9001

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: David Warhol, Steve Ettinger
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Adam Yurman
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987

The Only Sport Game Cartridge That Lets You Own and Manage a Pro Team, and Play Every Position!

As owner:
- Assemble your team from a pool of 70 players!
- Player stats based on real major league players!
- Check out salaries -- you have to stay within budget!

As Manager:
- Decide when to put players in and when to take them out!
- Keep track of the other team's substitutions.
- Watch for your players getting tired!

As Player:
- YOU run with the ball!
- YOU decide when to pass!
- YOU make the SLAM DUNK!
- Play against a friend or battle the computer!
- 5 different play levels.
- Fouls & Free throws!
- 3 point half-court shot!
- Call time outs!
- 24 second clock!

SLAP SHOT: SUPER PRO HOCKEY

No. 9003

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Ray Kaestner
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987
Includes code from the previously released NHL Hockey

INCREDIBLE ACTION, SPEED, AND SOUNDS PUT YOU RIGHT ON THE ICE!

- Play against a friend or take on a tough computer-controlled team!
- Full control of ALL your team's players to pass and shoot!
- Special SLAP SHOT button for a screaming shot into the goal!
- Penalty box!
- Face offs, trapping, interceptions!

SNAFU

No. 3758 (Mattel)
No. 75228 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program, Graphic and Sound: Mike Minkoff
Music: Russ Lieblich
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Working titles: Blockade+Snakes, Ssssnakes!
USA launch: 10/05/1981 (No. 24)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

You each start off with little lines that start to grow.
They grow fast, tangling, weaving, writhing like magic beanstalks. And you're at the controls, trying to completely enclose the other guy so he can't grow any more.
This is a game of lightning quick strategic decisions. Hesitate...or slip...and you'll find yourself surrounded.

SPACE ARMADA

No. 3759 (Mattel)
No. 75226 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: John Brooks and Chris Hawley
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 10/15/1981 (No. 25)
Brazil launch: 09/1984

You're defending Planet Earth against the unrelenting attack of alien warlords.
At first they throw their light brigades at you. If you're quick and careful, you should be able to elude their bombs, moving out of the way or taking refuge behind a bunker.
But when you wipe out the first couple of brigades, they'll launch a more deadly attack, dropping faster, more lethal bombs. Clear the battlefield once more, and they'll resort to guided missiles and even more fiendish devices.
You've got your hands full -- of excitement and aliens!

SPACE BATTLE

No. 2612 (Mattel)
No. 75212 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Hal Finney
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 08/25/1980 (No. 4)
Brazil launch: 10/1984

The alien squadron is closing in on your Mother Ship. You're awesomely outnumbered, and they attack and attack...
Flick on the situation map and analyze your position. Dispatch a fighter squadron toward the closest alien cluster.
You're smarter, a little faster, and you're going to let these aliens know they've got a fight on their hands.
Flick back to a cockpit close-up view. Here they come! Aim lasers...fire!

- Computerized situation map
- Close-up attack viewer
- Computerized and manual battle modes

SPACE HAWK

No. 5136 (Mattel)
No. 5397 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Bill Fisher, John Sohl
Graphic and Sound: Bill Fisher
Art: Jerrol Richardson
USA launch: 04/19/1982 (No. 28)

You're equipped with a jetpack for directional avoidance control, a blaster for protection and 5 force shields. If you get hit, you lose a shield. Not only that, you're sent into a space spin that could be disastrous. While you're regaining control, UFOs and comets scream past you. Of course, you can use hyperspace to get out of a super-tight spot. That'll put a few million light years between you and danger. But, watch out. You could wind up in an even hotter spot. If you want to find out how good you are, invite a friend over, compare scores.

SPACE SPARTANS

No. 3416

1 or 2 players

Master Component
Intellivoice

Design, Programming and Graphic: Bill Fisher e Stephen Roney,
Mike Minkoff, Brian Dougherty
Sound: Bill Fisher, Bill Goodrich
Voice of the computer: Keri Tombazian
USA launch: 06/29/1982

You are the commander of a spaceship. Suddenly, your ship's under attack. "Shields destroyed, Battle Computer one-third down," the ship's computer warns. You've got to hold them off until you can hyperdrive to a Starbase for repairs. "Starbase Two under attack!" The aliens have you in their clutches -- "The battle is over." Four different voices, two screens.

SPIKER! SUPER PRO VOLLEYBALL

No. 9102

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve Ettinger
Graphic: Connie Goldman, Steve Ettinger
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Keith Robinson
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1989 (relaunched in 2019 by Blue Sky Rangers)

Fast action, intense competition -- it's SPIKER! -- SUPER PRO VOLLEYBALL. Here comes the serve...just beyond reach! Dive! BAM -- got it! The ball's in play...set it -- it seems to hang above the net -- run and SMASH! Spike it over! All the fun and excitement of a real volleyball match!

- Realistic game play, animation and sound effects put you right on the court!
- ALL volleyball moves -- serves, sets, leaps, spikes, blocks, digs, even dives -- are under YOUR control!
- YOU direct every member of your team!
- Requires quick reflexes and sharp wits!
- Play against a friend or against a computer-controlled team!
- Special option lets two players work TOGETHER to battle the computer!
- "Smart" controls are easy for beginners, a challenge for experts!
- 6 difficulty settings let players of different skill levels compete evenly!

STADIUM MUD BUGGIES

No. 9100

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Rick Koenig
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Keith Robinson
Production: Realtime Associates
Working title: Monster Truck Rally
USA launch: 1989

Gear-grinding, teeth-jarring excitement -- it's STADIUM MUD BUGGIES! Get behind the wheel and floor it! Take that first hill -- you're airborne! SMACK! Bad landing -- you stall -- your opponent passes you! Jam it into gear -- your wheels spin, throwing mud everywhere -- finally some traction! You're back in the race! A car in your way? Crash over it! You're catching up! Drawbridge ahead...and it's rising! Use it as a ramp -- gun it! -- take off and YES! A perfect landing as you zoom first across the finish line!

- Realistic graphics, animation and sound effects put you right on the track!
- 9 events pit you against merciless obstacles: Hill Climb! Drag Race! Bog! Tug-O-War! Car Crush! Donuts! Drawbridge! Combo Course! And the MONSTER RALLY -- all events combined into one ironman challenge!
- Compete alone, against a friend, or against the toughest computer driver ever!

STAMPEDE

No. M-001 / EM-001

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Bob Whitehead
USA launch: 1982

Yahoo! Stampede by Activision is bringing some kind of fun to your Intellivision. And some kind of challenge! The object of this tough little video trail drive is to lasso as many stampeding calves as possible. But hold on there, Pilgrim! Those little "dogies" are right clever, and they'll do their darnedest to outsmart you! So, ride hard, rope fast, and hold on to your hat! You're in for the truest test of the wild, wild West!

STAR STRIKE

No. 5161 (Mattel)
No. 75231 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Brett Stutz, Hal Finney
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 12/22/1981 (No. 27)

For action fast and furious, take command of a rocket-powered fighter-interceptor flying a few hundred feet off the deck. Your mission: attack and destroy alien silos defended by several squadrons of alien rocket-craft. You must react instantaneously. You are a few hundred feet above the terrain in a narrow canyon. That's where the aliens have dug in. Maneuvering room is severely limited. Meanwhile, earth is slowly coming into target position for the silos. Remember, you alone can save earth. Don't miss.

STAR WARS: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

No. 6050

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Lucasfilm Ltd.
USA launch: 1983

Based on the classic scene from THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, you battle gigantic IMPERIAL WALKERS on the ICE PLANET HOTH. Quick reflexes and nerves of steel are needed to halt the WALKERS before they blow up the power generator at the Rebel base.

SUB HUNT

No. 3408 (Mattel)
No. 75225 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Tom Loughry
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production:APh Technological Consulting
Working titles: Submarine, Submarine Battle
USA launch: 05/06/1982 (No. 30)

You're at the periscope of a Nautilus class nuclear submarine, the last line of defense between the enemy and the fleet. Enemy PT boats drone around seeking you out. Meanwhile, enemy destroyers constantly jockey for depth-bombing position. You must keep you head to control depth, speed, direction and torpedoes. You have simultaneous periscope and satellite horizon displays with compass readings to keep you afloat and the enemy at bay. If you do it, you should be immediately commissioned an Admiral in the U.S. Navy.

SUPER COBRA

No. 6320

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Konami Industry Co.
USA launch: 1983

Set off on a high flying, dangerous gunship mission to destroy the enemy's base. Fly your helicopters through mazes, caves, and cities filled with tall buildings. The enemy tries to shoot your helicopter down with missiles, tanks, meteors, and even flying saucers! 1 or 2 players.

SUPER PRO DECATHLON

No. 9008

1 to 4 players

Master Component

Design, Programming and Graphic: Scott Robitelle
Animation: Connie Goldman
Sound and Music: David Warhol
Art: Steve Huston
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1988

The winner of the Decathlon is often called the Greatest Athlete in the World -- competitors must show world-class skill in 10 different events! Speed and endurance on the track. Form and timing on the jumps. Strength and determination on the throws. Now put yourself to the test with 10 tough contests that will challenge you like never before! Don't be surprised if you find yourself out of breath and your heart racing!

- 10 Complete Events! 100 Meter Dash! Hurdles! Long Jump! High Jump! Pole Vault! Discus! Shot Put! Javelin! Triple Jump! 400 Meter Run!
- Compete in the full Decathlon, or practice individual events.

SUPER PRO FOOTBALL

No. 8400

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: David Warhol, John Tomlinson, Ray Kaestner
Program: David Warhol, John Tomlinson
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Sound: David Warhol
Art: Steve Huston
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1986
Includes code from the previously released NFL Football

Realistic Action & Sound Effects
REAL LIVE ACTION -- Just Like Sunday Football!

- Super Pro Football -- One & Two Players
- You are the Coach & Quarterback
- Full Football Rules & Play, including running, passing, punts, interceptions...Even 2 point safeties!
- You and your opponent call & control the play
- The challenge is to outwit your opponent or play against the Computer

Never Before So Real!

David Warhol, who had programmed Thunder Castle at Mattel, had helped prepare the Thunder Castle cartridge for its INTV Corporation release. Terry Valeski, President of INTV, approached Dave a short time later. Would he be interested in programming an enhanced one- or two-player version of the original NFL Football cartridge?
This was quite a challenge. So far, the "new" INTV titles -- Thunder Castle, World Championship Baseball, Thin Ice -- had simply been unreleased Mattel Electronics product and had already existed as EPROM prototypes. Preparing those games for release had essentially involved getting the files into the proper format for General Instruments to manufacturer ROMs. An enhanced football cartridge, though, would require new programming.
It was now 1986, over two years since Mattel Electronics had closed. All of the development equipment had long since been sold off. Valeski could supply the NFL Football source code on 8-inch floppy disk, but nothing else -- including any startup money.
Taking a big risk, Dave put his own money into having a custom card designed and built (by his friend, hardware expert Scott Robitelle) that would interface an IBM PC and Intellivision Master Component. He put his own time into writing a cross assembler and linker to develop 1610 games on the PC.
He then hired former Mattel programmers Ray Kaestner (BurgerTime) and John Tomlinson (Mission X), plus former Mattel graphic artist Connie Goldman (Thunder Castle) to help put together the enhanced football game.
The risk paid off. INTV Corp. bought the completed game, Super Pro Football, introducing it for Christmas 1986. The cartridge was so successful that INTV used the "Super Pro" designation on all of their later sports titles, and Dave Warhol's company -- Realtime Associates -- was hired to do all of INTV's subsequent games.

SWORDS & SERPENTS

No. 700009

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Brian P. Dougherty
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982

You are the White Knight, exploring a maze-like dungeon...discovering silver, diamonds and gold! But will you live to enjoy them? Black Knights attack, swords rend armor...you stagger on alone. A friendly wizard joins you. Can you protect him until he learns the spells that may save you both? Coming soon!

TENNIS

No. 1814 (Mattel)
No. 75218 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Gavin Claypool
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
USA launch: 12/10/1980 (No. 19)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

Thunk! You send a screaming serve across the net. Your opponent races to intercept it and returns a lofty lob into your deep backcourt. You get to it in time to send a smashing ground shot just out of reach of your opponent's outstretched racquet.
Play an entire three set match, and each game will be different and exciting. You control ball placement, velocity and strategy. And it's a game of wits as well as of dexterity. Even the crowd gets in the act by turning their heads to follow the ball -- and cheering at just the right time.

THE DREADNAUGHT FACTOR

No. M-004

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Tom Loughry
Production: Cheshire Engineering
USA launch: 1983
Brazil launch: 11/1984

It's the most terrifying space siege ever to rock the universe! The dreadnaught's approach is awesome to the eye - 10,000 times the weight of your tiny hyperfighter, 100 times its size. Your mission is to stop it before it enters your stargate and destroys the planet Terra. And, if you succeed, 100 other dreadnaughts loom on the horizon. Strategy now. Courage forever with the Dreadnaught Factor.

THE ELECTRIC COMPANY MATH FUN

No. 2613

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Kimo Yap
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technology Consultants
Licence: Children's Television Workshop, Inc.
Working title: Math Fun
USA launch: 10/16/1980 (No. 15)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

Who would guess that learning basic arithmetic skills could be this much fun!
To solve the math problems, two players race their clever gorillas along the river bank, ducking past obstructing animals.
The math gets more challenging when the players are ready for it. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division -- all are more fun with Math Fun.

- Accommodates wide range of learning levels
- One or two players
- Developed in conjunction with The Children's Television Workshop

THE ELECTRIC COMPANY WORD FUN

No. 1122

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Kevin Miller
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technology Consultants
Licence: Children's Television Workshop, Inc.
USA launch: 11/05/1980 (No. 17)

How those little monkeys love to learn! Watch them swing through the jungle, capturing letters with their tails and making words.
Three great learning games. Find A Word has little learners weaving words in and out of each other. Word Hunt sends them into the jungle looking for missing letters.
And Word Rocket has them blasting vowels into the sky to make words out of clouds of consonants. It's the fun and easy way to improve vocabulary skills.

THE JETSONS' WAYS WITH WORDS

No. 4543

1 or 2 players

Master Component
ECS

Design, Programmming, Sound and Music: Joshua Jeffe
Graphic: Donna Fisher
Educational content: Pamela Dong
Licence: Hanna-Barbera Productions, Inc.
USA launch: 1983

Experience the world of words with the Jetsons in a colorful and action-packed video game. It's easy to improve your spelling, reading and word recognition skills when you're having fun doing it. Especially when your instructors are the Jetsons. The programs progress through grade levels, from preschool on up.

THIN ICE

No. 4433 (Mattel)
No. 8300 (INTV Corp.)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: Julie Hoshizaki, Keith Robinson, Monique Lujan-Bakerink
Program: Julie Hoshizaki
Graphic: Monique Lujan-Bakerink
Sound and Additional Music: David Warhol
Music theme "Carnival of the Penguins": George "The Fat Man" Sanger
Art: Keith Robinson
Production: Quicksilver Software
Licence: Based on the Data East arcade game Disco No. 1
Working titles: Arctic Squares, Duncan's Thin Ice, Iceman, Voochko on Ice
USA launch: 1986

More Challenging! More Fun!
OH NO! DUNCAN IS ON THE LOOSE!

Duncan is a Penguin who loves to skate on thin ice, much to the dismay of the other Penguins. As Duncan skates, he weakens the ice; if he skates completely around another Penguin -- KER-PLASH! -- the ice collapses and the penguin falls into the pond.

Duncan has only two worries: the Seal that loves to bounce him on her nose and the Polar Bear who likes to bat him around.

You control Duncan; help him gobble shrimp cocktails for extra speed!

You have got to try this game to truly appreciate the indescribable fun and challenge!

As described on the Arcade Network page, Mattel Electronics had a first-look deal with Data East for their arcade games. One day, Data East brought in a new game called Disco No.1 in which a roller-skating Disco Boy moved around a dance floor, trapping Disco Girls by skating squares around them.
Everyone agreed that the game was original and fun, but they also agreed that the theme was dated and sexist and that, technically, it probably couldn't be done for Intellivision.
Keith Robinson (TRON Solar Sailer), a fan of the game, wrote a proposal, dated May 28, 1982, for a new premise: Thin Ice. A mischievous penguin would skate around other penguins on a frozen lake. By completing squares around them, those sections of the ice would fall into the lake, dunking the victims. Between levels, a Zamboni would drive out to repair the ice.
In addition to writing the proposal, Keith programmed a demo showing that the game was feasible by limiting the skating penguin's movements to the borders of the screen's background cards.
Based on the proposal and demo, Thin Ice was given the go-ahead. After programmer Julie Hoshizaki completed the revised Lock 'n' Chase in August, she and graphic designer Monique Lujan-Bakerink began work on the game. Everything went smoothly, except for a brief fight with someone in Marketing who wanted to change the name to Arctic Squares, a play on Arctic Circle. (He lost, but not before some literature was released to the public using that name.) The game was completed on schedule in mid-May, 1983.
While Thin Ice was in the game testing process, the Marketing department suddenly got excited about heading in a new direction. Instead of going outside the company for cartoon licenses, they wanted to start developing original characters for the games, then spinning off those characters to other products. And they wanted to start with the penguin from Thin Ice.
From June 17 to June 30, a penguin-naming contest was held, with the winning name, Duncan, submitted by David Warhol (Mind Strike). The game officially became Duncan's Thin Ice and the cartridge size was increased from 8K to 12K so that Monique could add special animated title screens introducing Duncan and his penguin pals, Bobo, P.J., Minky and Norman.
Just as this new version was nearing completion, though, there was major upheaval in the management structure of Mattel Electronics. President Josh Denham was out, replaced by Mack Morris, who came to Mattel from Teledyne- Waterpik (and, earlier, from Breath Savers mints). Unfamiliar with video games, Morris brought in Jeff Rochlis, a former Mattel executive who had been instrumental in launching Intellivision, as a consultant. On July 15, 1983, sweeping through the Applications Software department like the Black Death through Europe, Rochlis briefly reviewed each game in development and gave it a thumbs up or down on the spot.
Luckily, he liked Thin Ice, but he thought the penguin was too cute. He ordered it replaced with a fisherman (Fishin' Sam) chopping at the ice with an ax. He also recommended changing the name to Iceman. Julie and Monique, less than thrilled, set about changing the animations.
But Rochlis's morale-crushing performance hadn't gone over well. The VP of Application Software, Gabriel Baum, told Mack Morris that Rochlis was no longer welcome in his department, and forbade Rochlis having any further direct contact with the programmers. Not long afterward, Rochlis was gone. Word was that Morris felt Rochlis was trying to grab too much power.
Once Rochlis was out, so was Fishin' Sam. Julie and Monique returned to completing Duncan's Thin Ice.
And, of course, as soon as it was done, Marketing came up with yet another brilliant idea. They had spent millions for the rights to the 1984 Winter Olympics license, yet, through bad communication, an original game using the license hadn't been developed. (An album of old sports titles was rushed into production as Go For the Gold.)
But why not change Duncan into Voochko the Wolf, the mascot for the Winter Olympics, and release Thin Ice as an official Olympics cartridge? Suddenly, with Go For the Gold, Mattel would have two official Olympics titles. The change was ordered on October 17; Duncan's Thin Ice would become Voochko on Ice. [Julie and Monique changed the "penguin pals" to Cossack dancers Ivan, Oskar, Misha and Bobo.]
Everyone connected with Thin Ice was disappointed; they had grown to love Duncan. So an unprecedented move was made: although Easter eggs in cartridges were forbidden -- you could be fired if found out -- VP Gabriel Baum gave permission for Duncan's Thin Ice to be hidden within the Voochko On Ice cartridge without Marketing's knowledge, even though it meant increasing the size from 12K to 16K. He said that if Marketing complained about the size increase, he would tell them it was necessary because of the last-minute nature of the change they had ordered. "They'll believe it," he explained, "none of them understand the technology."
[Gabriel had a low opinion of most Marketing personnel, and was particularly derisive of the deals they had made to obtain character and movie licenses. "When these people go to a meeting," he said, "they pull down their pants and walk into the room backwards."]
Julie, along with Group Leader Steve Ettinger (Hover Force), put together two versions: Voodun, in which Duncan was hidden within Voochko; and Dunvoo, in which Voochko was hidden within Duncan. Voodun was the one scheduled to go into production; Dunvoo was the version the programmers took home for themselves. To switch between Duncan and Voochko in either version, you pressed ENTER on the left hand controller, CLEAR on the right one, and pressed RESET.
But in January 1984, six months after the original Thin Ice had been completed, just as Voochko on Ice was about to manufactured, Mattel Electronics was closed down.
Finally, in 1986, INTV Corporation released Thin Ice. They went with the original 8K version -- no introduction screens, no hidden Voochko -- to save production costs. (The title screen still says "Mattel Electronics presents...") The game was introduced in the Fall 1986 INTV catalog.

Early in production, David Warhol came to Keith Robinson, who was manager on the game, and said he had a friend who wanted to break into the video game field as a composer and was willing to write a theme for Thin Ice for free. Keith told him no; it was against Mattel policy to use freelancers, even if they were literally free. Following Keith's authority about as much as anyone at Mattel did, Dave had his friend write the music anyway. Dave coded it for Intellivision and Julie linked it into the game.
The theme, "Carnival of the Penguins," was so addictive and perfect for the game that Keith agreed it had to be used. He contacted Mattel's crack legal department and suggested they buy the rights for $100. They probably could have, but they procrastinated for months. By the time they got around to contacting the composer, the game had been demonstrated at a number of trade shows using the music; the composer was able to negotiate a payment of $1200 for the 15 second theme.
Thus George Alistair Sanger sold his first video game melody. He has gone on, under the nickname The Fat Man, to become the most famous composer of music for interactive media. He and his Team Fat have provided the music for Loom, Wing Commander, The 7th Guest and many other computer games.

In 2000, George "The Fat Man" Sanger recorded the Thin Ice theme in a rock surf arrangement. "Surfing on Thin Ice" is available as a free MP3 download at mp3.com/intellivision.

Richard Zamboni, president of Frank J. Zamboni & Co., gave permission for his company's trademark to be used in the Thin Ice instruction book. He sent over a series of photos - the history of the ice-repairing machines invented by his father - so that Monique could accurately depict a Zamboni in the game.

The penguins Norman and Minky were named after Julie and Monique's boss Keith Robinson (who only reluctantly admits that his rarely-used first name is Norman) and his boss Mike Minkoff (Snafu).

By 1986, when INTV Corporation was ready to release the game, Keith had started his own graphic design business, Strand Cruisers. Because of his connection to Thin Ice, INTV hired Keith to write the instructions and illustrate the package. This led to Keith designing the packaging and writing all of the copy for most of the subsequent INTV releases.

Collector's note: There are two versions of the box. On the original, the game title was yellow-orange. This was changed to white in the second run to make the title stand out more.

THUNDER CASTLE

No. 4469

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design: Connie Goldman, David Warhol
Program, Music and Sound Effects: David Warhol
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Production: Quicksilver Software
Working titles: Magic Castle, Mystic Castle
USA launch: 1986

A whimsical new medieval fantasy game. You're the knight in shining armor on your quest for survival. Your journey takes you through the enchanted forest where three dragons wait with heated breath. Then, through a castle maze with three wicked wizards. Finally to a dark and dreary dungeon where the three demons present your final challenge.

TOWER OF DOOM

Nº 4692 (Mattel)
Nº 8600 (INTV Corp.)

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Dan Bass, John Tomlinson
Graphic: Connie Goldman, Karl Morris, Monique Lujan-Bakerink
Sound and Music: David Warhol, Joshua Jeffe
Art: Ultimatte Corporation
Production: Realtime Associates
Working titles: Arcade D&D, AD&D REVENGE OF THE MASTER Cartridge,
D&D III
USA launch: 1987
Started at Mattel Electronics as
ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TOWER OF MYSTERY Cartridge [#4692]

Monsters. Magic. Good. Evil. Strength. Cunning. Traps. Mazes. You are about to face the greatest challenge any mortal has ever known -- the Tower of Doom.

- Requires quick reflexes and quicker wits -- some monsters can only be defeated in battle, others must be bribed with treasure!
- Select one of 10 characters! Different characters have different abilities to fight, bargain, and endure! You must make the most of your character's skills!
- Select one of 10 adventures! Some require more strength, some require more brains! Choose a tower where the mazes are always the same, or a tower where the mazes are different every time you enter!
- Explore winding corridors! Collect magical treasures! Battle vile monsters! Escape perilous traps!

TRIPLE ACTION

No. 3760

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Rich O'Keefe
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Working titles: 3-in-1 Arcade, 5-in-1 Arcade, Some of Theirs
USA launch: 10/15/1981 (No. 26)
Brazil launch: 11/1983

It's three classic video games in one!

Racing Cars -- You and your opponent race against the clock down a crowded highway.

Battle Tanks -- It's a duel to the finish between two heavy tanks. One of you will end up as scrap iron.

Biplanes -- It's a thrilling dogfight -- biplane style! Watch out for the control tower...don't get lost in the clouds. But most of all, watch out for that blood thirsty baron with a leather cap!

TRIPLE CHALLENGE

No. 8700

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: David Warhol
Art: Keith Robinson
Production: Realtime Associates
USA launch: 1987
Includes code from the previously released USCF Chess,
Checkers and ABPA Backgammon

Announcing a major software breakthrough! Three complete games -- Chess, Checkers, and Backgammon -- now together on ONE game cartridge! YOU get the savings!

- Complete rules! Not "simplified" or "abridged!"
- Play against a friend or against the computer!
- Different play levels! Play any game at "Beginner" level, or crank it up for a real challenge!
- Three different games and their variations keep the action fresh!
- Three classic games of strategy on one cartridge!

CHESS
- Seven levels of difficulty! It's chess for beginners, intermediates and very serious players alike!
- Three ways to play! You against the computer, challenge another player or watch the computer play against itself!
- Basic chess features! Capturing, castling, pawn promotion, en passant, check, checkmate, and stalemate!
- Unique playing features! Take back the last move! Replay moves! Let the computer take your move!
- Set up special board situations for study!

CHECKERS
- "Bail Out" Button -- COMPUTER SUGGESTS MOVE, when you're stumped against the computer.
- CLEAR button lets you change your move!

BACKGAMMON
- Computer rolls dice...dice fall randomly, just like real game!
- Computer keeps track of pip count!

TRON DEADLY DISCS

No. 5391

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve Sents
Graphic: Eric Wels
Sound: Bill Goodrich
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Based on the Walt Disney Productions motion picture TRON
Working title: TRON I
USA launch: 1982 (No. 36)
Brazil launch: 09/1984

Our hero, TRON, is locked in battle against the Evil Blue Warriors. Score points by knocking out the computer-controlled attackers with flying discs. Your task is to bring your man safely through battle after battle. The attacking warriors are also armed with destroyer discs, and they'll come after TRON in wave after wave. You get them, or they'll get TRON!

TRON MAZE-A-TRON

No. 5392

1 player

Master Component

Design and Programming: Russ Haft
Graphic: Eric Wels
Sound: Andy Sells
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: Based on the Walt Disney Productions motion picture TRON
Working titles: Mazatron, Maze-A-Tron, TRON II
USA launch: 10/06/1982 (No. 39)

Based on the Disney movie TRON, this is a great action game for 1 or 2 players. You are engaged in a deadly struggle to penetrate the inner circle of the Master Control Program. Watch out for the deadly "bits." You've got to destroy them to reach your goal and accumulate the most points.

TRON SOLAR SAILER

No. 5393

1 or 2 players

Master Component
Intellivoice

Design: Keith Robinson, Don Daglow
Program: Keith Robinson, Gene Smith
Graphic: Keith Robinson
Sound: Mark Urbaniec
Music: Arranged by Andy Sells from the TRON themes by Wendy Carlos
Voices: Cory Burton, Diane Pershing, Patti Glick,
Brian Cummings, Joannie Gerber, Fred Jones
Licence: Based on the Disney motion picture TRON
Working titles: Solar Sailor, Voice Tron
USA launch: 1983

A nightmare numbers game based on the Disney movie, TRON. Your challenge is to first seek out and then to decode the evil Master Control Program. The voice of TRON's girlfriend Yori helps you find the MCP as an electronic voice gives you the secret code to remember. The rest is up to you alone. "Energy low, We've been hit...end of line." Five different voices and two screens.

In early releases about the game, Marketing spelled it Solar Sailor, with an or. It took months to convince them that the proper spelling was Sailer. (A sailor is a person who sails, a sailer -- as in this case -- is something a person sails on.)

Keith wanted to use music from the film, but the Mattel legal department wasn't sure if our license with Disney included to rights to use Wendy Carlos's score; they said they'd check on it. They never did get back to Keith, so he just went ahead and used it. If you're reading this, Wendy, your check's in the mail.

While testing the game, Keith's boss Mike Minkoff kept getting access codes that ended in "69." Mike accused Keith several times of skewing the random numbers for an adolescent joke. Tired of being unfairly accused, Keith put the data stream 01000101 (the binary representation of 69) in the game's opening demo screen. He then told Mike, "Look, if I was going to put a '69' in the game, I'd put it right on the title screen!" and waited to see how long it would take Mike to notice. He never did; the game went out that way. 01000101 appeared on the demo screen, in the advertising, on the back of the box and in the instructions. When Keith finally pointed it out, Mike said, "But that's 45!" Mike is such a dedicated programmer, he saw the number in hexadecimal (base 16); he never made the final calculation that 45 (base 16) is 69 (base 10).

Keith and Gene felt that the digitized word "can't" in the MCP's line "I can't allow this" sounded...well...obscene, even though Deidre Cimarusti from the Voice Department insisted it had tested fine. To prove their point, Gene edited the voice file to isolate the word. They then altered the Space Spartans title screen so that it read and said "Mattel Electronics presents Space......" Well, you get the idea. This title screen became so popular among some programmers that a game was inevitable. They tacked the screen onto a version of Astrosmash with new graphics: the missile launcher, the missiles and the flying saucer were replaced with...c'mon, do we have to spell this out? (You can check out the word for yourself; it was left as-is in the game.)

TROPICAL TROUBLE

No. 700017

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Steve DeFrisco
Graphics Assistance: Karen Elliott
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1982

Clarence and Doris have been shipwrecked on a lonely South Sea island. All alone, completely isolated. A huge Beach Bruiser appears suddenly and whisks darlin' Doris away. Clarence must get her back!
Bounding boulders, flying coconuts, man-eating clams, vicious ferns and bubbling fields of lava block his way. Doris leaves a trail of white hankies to give Clarence strength. Help Clarence rescue her while there's still time!

TRUCKIN'

No. 700023

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Rick Levine
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

Ride your rig to the four corners of the USA! Deliver the goods on a tight schedule. Make strategic decisions about what cargoes to carry and which routes to take. Radio ahead. Find out what loads are needed, and where. Then power down that ribbon of highway.
Keep an eye peeled for turnouts - and for other truckers! You've got to get where you're goin' - and get there first! You'll earn big bucks as you cover the map from sea to shining sea! One or two players compete against time - and each other. Go for it!

TURBO

No. 2473 (Coleco)
No. 241303 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Sega Enterprises, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1982

This is a fast-paced racing game in which you control a high speed car and drive it through city streets, tunnels, down country roads and over bridges. Accelerate - change lanes! While controlling the car's speed and direction, you must pass speeding cars, avoiding treacherous obstacles that come your way - and still come in on record time!

TUTANKHAM

No. 6340

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Konami Industry Co.
USA launch: 1983

Wander King Tut's tomb in search of fabulous treasure! Keys are used to unlock the passageways to the treasure. But snakes, griffins, and beetles will guard the tomb at all costs. With lasers and flash bombs, try to defeat these protectors of the tomb and escape with the loot.

U.S. SKI TEAM SKIING

No. 1817 (Mattel)
No. 75219 (Sears)

1 to 6 players

Master Component

Program: Scott Reynolds
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Production: APh Technological Consulting
Licence: United States Ski Team, Inc.
USA launch: 12/10/1980 (No. 20)
Re-released by INTV Corp. as Alpine Skiing [INTV #1817]

Take a deep breath, dig your poles hard into the snow, push off...and you're speeding down a world class skiing course.
Stay low and glide gracefully through the turns because you're in a race against the clock. But don't cut the comers too sharply or you'll go tumbling! All the excitement of the Winter Olympics on a beautiful video snowscape.

USCF CHESS

No. 3412

1 or 2 players

Master Component

User interface programming: Russ Ludwick
Heuristics programming: Teletape, Inc.
Graphic: Dave James, Peggi Decarli
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Licence: U.S. Chess Federation
USA launch: 11/23/1982 (No. 41)

A great new way to play the ultimate game of strategy, whether you're a novice, intermediate or expert. Pit your skill against the computer or an opponent. Select from eight degrees of difficulty and a time limit on moves. Move up in skill as you improve.

UTOPIA

No. 5149 (Mattel)
No. 75232 (Sears)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Don Daglow
Graphic: Don Daglow, Kai Tran
Sound: Russ Lieblich
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Working title: Island
USA launch: 06/03/1982 (No. 33)

You and your opponent each have an island to rule. Points are accumulated based on the welfare of your island people. You can choose to be a benevolent ruler or an aggressive dictator. Your people need food, housing, and industry for clothing and other essentials. What you cannot manage are natural disasters. A single hurricane could wipe out your crops, sink your fishing fleet, destroy all the homes and factories you've built. Rebels may automatically appear should the welfare of the people drop. They could attack. Classic dilemmas in a game that is sure to become an absorbing classic in its own right.

VECTRON

No. 5788

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design, Programming and Sound: Mark Urbaniec
Graphic: Connie Goldman
Art: Jerrol Richardson
Working titles: Vectrix, Vortex
USA launch: 1983

Hungrees, G-spheres, splits, sweeps and prizums -- the nasties are out to stop you from building your energy bases. Use your Vectron to build the bases level by level to increase your score. Or, use Vectron to shoot down or stun the nasties with energy blasts. But don't run out of energy, the nasties are nibbling away at your score.

Mark and Keith Robinson, who was programming TRON Solar Sailer at the same time Mark was programming Vectron, both disliked the built-in Intellivision font, and they both hated that the "at" sign (@) was used as a copyright symbol on the title screens. They developed custom fonts for their games and made a special point of including a true c-in-circle copyright symbol in the character sets. They proudly showed off their custom title screens to Management, pointing out that for the first time Intellivision games would have correct copyright symbols.
Management vetoed their use. The argument: if there was ever a court fight over the legitimacy of the copyrights on the old games, Mattel could argue that the "at" sign should be accepted in context as a copyright symbol, since the Intellivision can't generate a true one. Ah, but Vectron and TRON Solar Sailer would show that the Intellivision could generate a true copyright symbol, thus jeopardizing the copyrights of all previous Intellivision games. Mark and Keith were ordered to use "at" signs, instead.
Feeling that this was about the stupidest thing they had ever heard, Mark and Keith went directly to Roy Ekstrand, head of Mattel's legal department, and presented their case. His decision: Mattel could argue that technological advancements since the earlier games now made it possible to use correct copyright symbols, where previously it wasn't. It would be safe to use the real copyright symbols.
Gabriel Baum, VP of Applications Software, was furious that Mark and Keith had gone over his head, and told them to "never do it again." Then he told them to use their real copyright symbols.
They later wondered: Was it worth risking their jobs over something as trivial as having the correct copyright symbol on their title screens? Their conclusion: "Damn right it was."

According to the instruction book, if you beat the top level, #99, you will be rewarded with "a special little visual treat." The treat? Due to space constraints, there was only room for a message reading "Congratulations. You are very good." The difficulty increases so much, though, that it is impossible to beat level 99. Or at least, Mark hopes it is. "If I went through all that to see the 'special visual treat' and all I got was, 'You are very good,'" Mark notes, "I'd sure be pissed."

VENTURE

No. 2477 (Coleco)
No. 7628-1 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Exidy Incorporated arcade game
USA launch: 1983

In this unique game, you control Winky - the heroic adventurer - who is off on an expedition to claim the treasures that lay hidden in the dungeon. Each treasure is in a chamber - protected by dangerous monsters. He must use his bow and arrow to ward off the monsters and claim the treasures. The more he ventures - the more he gains!

WHITE WATER!

No. 700024

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Douglas A. Fults
Sound: Dave Durran
USA launch: 1983

Deep in the thick green jungle, you'll hear the roar of a wild river. White Water! the challenge proves irresistible! And the treasures to be found are boundless! Race to the river and tempt fate. You pilot the raft with two other passengers on board. Boulders, plants, whirlpools - the obstacles on this savage waterway threaten your every move!

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP BASEBALL

No. 5789

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Production: APh Technological Consulting (Mattel)
Production: Quicksilver Software (INTV Corp.)
Working titles: All-Star Major League Baseball, Baseball II
USA launch: 1986
Includes code from the previously released Major League Baseball

You're the home team in blue, engaged in the most realistic home video baseball game around. You've got to hit the fast-breaking curve balls or smoking fastballs. But don't pop up, this game features fly balls as well a grounders. You can also steal bases and kick up a cloud of dust as you slide into the bag. Nine innings of action-packed fun, for one or two players. Play ball!

WORLD CUP SOCCER

No. 8100

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Program: Armand Barraud, Mark Grant
Production: Nice Ideas (Mattel Electronics, France)
Working title: Super NASL Soccer
USA launch: 1985
Includes code from the previously released NASL Soccer

The ball is yours...now move it down field. Teamwork and footwork are the name of this game. The defense is pressing...pass to a teammate! Get the ball in close to your opponent's goal. Move quickly...evade the defense...keep the ball in bounds. You're in the goal area. Fake out the goalie and shoot. It's a score!
World Cup Soccer is an advanced version of the original, successful Soccer. It enables you to play with an opponent or against your Intellivision unit. It offers more real life-like gameplay with such added gameplay features as heading the ball, tackling, the option of changing players during game play, and direct or indirect kicking after penalties are called. It's so life-like that you have a full team of players.

WORLD SERIES MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

No. 4537

1 or 2 players

Master Component
ECS
Intellivoice

Design and Programming: Eddie Dombrower
Sound and Music: David Warhol
Voice Implementation: Steve Ettinger
Voice Processing: Mattel Speech Lab
USA launch: 1983

It's just like playing baseball in front of national TV! The TV cameras catch different angles of the game. Pan across the playing field. Even pick up the baserunners on a split screen. Be the manager by programming in batting and pitching statistics for your team. Program Hall of Famers to play against each other. Imagine Fernando Valenzuela pitching against Babe Ruth! Truly the next generation of video games.

WORM WHOMPER

No. M-006

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Design and Programming: Tom Loughry
Production: Cheshire Engineering
USA launch: 1983

Welcome to Felton Pinkerton's farm where corn grows high at harvesting time. But, wait! Wave after wave of horrible corn huskers are slithering, sliding, oozing toward your corn crops. The corn must be saved! The worms must be whomped! Run to the shed, grab your B-U-G pesticide and spray, Spray, SPRAY! Worm Whomper. Watch what crops up!

ZAXXON

No. 2487 (Coleco)
No. 7627-3 (CBS)

1 or 2 players

Master Component

Licence: Based on the Sega Enterprises, Inc. arcade game
USA launch: 1983

This fantastic three dimensional space battle game puts you in control of a futuristic spaceship. The ship zooms through the sky, diving down to bomb the enemy fighter planes and to attack the enemy's installations. The ship must avoid hazardous walls, devastating force fields and the enemy's fire to survive and score. Can you do it?

BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

No. 3275
No. 3317

Master Component
Keyboard Component

" Program: Ken Smith
" Production: APh Technological Consulting

CONVERSATIONAL FRENCH


No. 1147	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component	" Program: Chris Kingsley " Production: APh Technological Consulting

Learn a second language the same way you learned yours - by listening and speaking! You pronounce the French word into the microphone and compare your pronunciation with the audio! It helps you to master the French conversation so that you can apply it in practice in many situations. Work at home at your own pace. No artificial grammar!

CROSSWORDS I


No. 3764	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component

Do crosswords electronically! The computer gives you the tips, draws the spaces, keeps the score - and when you're done, someone else can solve the same challenge! 3 levels of difficulty. You don't need an eraser - just the keys!

CROSSWORDS II


No. 3892	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component

The challenge is a little tougher in this game than in CROSSWORD I. The computer still draws spaces, gives hints and keeps the score, but it will be more difficult for you. Crossword addicts will really enjoy this tape.

CROSSWORDS III


No. 3893	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component

Ideal for true crossword experts. Have fun while learning new exotic words. The computer will keep the score, draw the spaces and give you hints. The rest is up to you. A real test of knowledge of words.
Become a master of the crosswords!

FAMILY BUDGETING


No. 3419	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component

Where the money goes! Control family finances with this program. You can have a graphical analysis of a wide spectrum of categories to help you balance your expenses and keep your finances organized. It's like having an accountant at home! This is a K7 that will pay for itself.

GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE


No. 3767	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component	Program: Don Daglow

Have a geography class for up to 6 people. Three fascinating quiz games. The computer controls the tests of the state capitals, natural resources, history and identification of the map. See how many family members get an "A".
It is a delightful way to learn facts about America.

JACK LALANNE'S PHYSICAL CONDITIONING


No. 1146	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component	Program: Hal Finney Production: APh Technological Consulting

Develop a conditioning program adapted to your needs. Just enter personal statistics, do a physical test and the computer will give you a personalized program recommended by the famous conditioning expert Jack LaLanne.

SPELLING CHALLENGE


No. 3762	© 1981 Mattel Electronics
Master Component Keyboard Component	Production: APh Technological Consulting

The whole family can have a spelling bee with words chosen for each age and level of difficulty. Pre-record the words on the audio tape or use the words already included in the K7. It's a lot of fun. If you've never been good at spelling, this K7 can help you do that.

IPAD EMULATOR


	© 2010 VH1	1 player
Apple iPad with iOS 3.2 or higher	Format: Digital

Multiplayer option in version 1.1

INTELLIVISION CLASSIC GAMES

No. SLUS-00906
1000947.101.US

1 or 2 players

Sony PlayStation 1

Format: CD
Program and Intellivision emulator: Mike Livesay
Additional programming: Chris Robbers, Jason Maynard
Sound emulation: Dan Zahn
Music: Tom Kathelin
Art: Jody McMurrian

Collection of 30 games created by Activision for Intellivision.
Available for Sony PlayStation.

INTELLIVISION GREATEST HITS

No. 381920

1 or 2 players

Mac
PC

Format: CD

Intellivision's 20-year special collection.
In two versions for PC and Mac, with 10 and 25 games.

INTELLIVISION LAS VEGAS LOUNGE TRIO

1 or 2 players

Apple Mac
PC

Format: CD
Special limited edition for Classic Gaming Expo 2007 (CGE2K7)

Box containing 3 CDs:
PC/Mac game collections Intellivision Lives! and Intellivision Rocks, and the audio CD Intellivision in Hi-Fi

INTELLIVISION LIVES!

1 or 2 players

Apple Mac
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo DS
Nintendo GameCube
PC
Sony Playstation 1
Sony Playstation 2

Format: CD
Program: Ed Higa, Xheryl G. Durham
Production: Karen Lequeux
Production assistant: Chris Weeks
3D Art: Connie Goldman, Caleb Sawyer
Art direction: Karen Lequeux
Engineering and tools: Farsight Studios Inc.

Collection with more than 60 Intellivision games, plus interviews and curiosities.
Available for PC, Mac, DS/Gamecube (Nintendo), PlayStation 1/2 (Sony) and Xbox (Microsoft).

INTELLIVISION ROCKS

1 or 2 players

Mac
PC

Format: CD

Collection of 30 games for Intellivision.
Available for PC and Mac.

OFFICIAL GAMES

CARTRIDGE

ABPA BACKGAMMON

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS CARTRIDGE

ADVANCED DUNGEONS & DRAGONS TREASURE OF TARMIN CARTRIDGE

ARMOR BATTLE

ASTROSMASH

ATLANTIS

AUTO RACING

B-17 BOMBER

BEAMRIDER

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

BLOCKADE RUNNER

BODY SLAM! SUPER PRO WRESTLING

BOMB SQUAD

BOXING

BUMP 'N' JUMP

BURGERTIME

BUZZ BOMBERS

CARNIVAL

CENTIPEDE

CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS

CHECKERS / DRAUGHTS

CHIP SHOT: SUPER PRO GOLF

COMMANDO

CONGO BONGO

DEFENDER

DEMON ATTACK

DIG DUG

DINER

DONKEY KONG

DONKEY KONG JR.

DRACULA

DRAGONFIRE

FATHOM

FROG BOG

FROGGER

HAPPY TRAILS

HORSE RACING

HOVER FORCE

ICE TREK

KOOL-AID MAN

LADY BUG

LAS VEGAS POKER & BLACKJACK

LAS VEGAS ROULETTE

LEARNING FUN I

LEARNING FUN II

LOCK 'N' CHASE

LOCO-MOTION

MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL

MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: THE POWER OF HE-MAN

MELODY BLASTER

MICROSURGEON

MIND STRIKE

MISSION X

MOTO-CROSS

MOUNTAIN MADNESS: SUPER PRO SKIING

MOUSE TRAP

MR. BASIC MEETS BITS 'N BYTES

NASL SOCCER

NBA BASKETBALL

NFL FOOTBALL

NHL HOCKEY

NIGHT STALKER

NOVA BLAST

PAC-MAN

PBA BOWLING

PGA GOLF

PINBALL

PITFALL!

POLE POSITION

POPEYE

Q*BERT

REVERSI

RIVER RAID

ROYAL DEALER

SAFECRACKER

SCOOBY DOO'S MAZE CHASE

SEA BATTLE

SEWER SAM