Intellivision is back
The 1980s Intellivision console and games are still cultural icons. Sheldon from TV’s “The Big Bang Theory,” sports a T-shirt decorated with a game screen from Astrosmash. The Blue Sky Rangers have regrouped to bring back video games from a simpler time In the early 1980s Keith Robinson was getting paid to have fun with his friends, programming video games such as Astrosmash, Night Stalker and Sea Battle in a huge Mattel Electronics office in Hawthorne. In the early 1980s Keith Robinson was getting paid to have fun with his friends, programming video games such as Astrosmash, Night Stalker and Sea Battle in a huge Mattel Electronics office in Hawthorne. Those heady days of colorful personalities and maverick creativity screeched to a halt when the industry crashed in 1983. Then, 14 years later, Robinson and other ex-Mattel programmers bought the rights to their old Intellivision games, and began re-releasing them. Nostalgia gamers enjoyed reliving their youth, but to the surprise of some, their kids also got off on swinging virtual baseball bats and shooting virtual asteroids, playing charmingly pixelated characters against plum-colored, simply realized backgrounds. The ex-Mattel…
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