Top 10 Intellivision Games

The Mattel Intellivision was a popular games consoles in the late 1970s and early 1980s competing with the populat Atari 2600. It featured some amazing games like Night Stalker, BurgerTime, Astro Smash and many more. Why not tell me your favourite Intellivision games in the commentys section below and please like and subscribe as there will be plenty more gaming countdowns on the way.

[@InevitableTruthTeller]

Lock N Chase felt so good to play. There was just something magical about it.

[@stevenalexander6713]

Same. I liked it more than Pacman.

[@ProfitPathTV-zf6je]

One of Intellivision's few arcade ports.

[@chapingaryjr]

I loved that game

[@ericblair6984]

AD&D was the best game on the system. I still play it today. Hearing the breathing sound still gives me the willies.

[@iandresari726]

Cloudy Mountain? Or Treasure of Tarmin?

[@taurusrush420]

Hilarious... wait... did anyone else hear a dragon? 😂 LOVED THAT GAME!

[@robklossner9093]

@@iandresari726 Treasure of Tarmin was my favorite, but I liked Cloudy Mountain as well.

[@MrSaints74]

I loved Sea Battle.

[@vegn_brit5176]

It was my favourite game on the Intellivision. I used to play it a lot with my cousin.

[@InevitableTruthTeller]

Laying mines was fun. And running around in the high speed sub was too.

[@MrSaints74]

@@InevitableTruthTeller I always loved the PT boats, they were fast and powerful. But one hit would take them out.

[@tommcdermott11]

Hell yes.

[@TheScazighino]

@@vegn_brit5176oh my god me too 😂😂

[@richardkoehler2253]

I think you're forgetting (or perhaps never knew) what really made this system great--the sports games. The keypad controllers allowed for some sophisticated sports games (for that time period). Baseball was my favorite. Me and my friends would stay up all night playing that game. Downhill skiing was just as awesome. Slalom-not so much. Other great sports games were hockey and soccer. Basketball was not bad and football was OK as I recall. Other great games as I remember were Sea Battle, the Tron games, Vectron, and others I forget that were made by companies other than Mattel. You seem mainly interested in arcade games. You'd be better off buying an Atari 2600 or 5200 for arcade games. Oh, I also enjoyed Bomb Squad, which used the Intellivoice adapter. I agree with you though on Night Stalker and D&D, both outstanding games.

[@gregferguson7737]

Sea Battle may have been the first RTS. And Utopia was the first Civ style game (written by brilliant amd humble Don Daglow)

[@ronnierebhan229]

Totally agree. I wore the controller pad out calling the same pass/run plays over and over. I also liked Dragon Fire. The Racing game had a easter egg where you could cut across grass and go horizontal through the screen over and over and not hit any objects.😅

[@richardkoehler2253]

Sea Battle was a great game. We'd spend hours playing that one. @@gregferguson7737

[@TwistedMindful]

I agree with you Baseball and golf were my favorite games

[@popskltoes]

I had Intellevision when my friends had Atari. I LOVED it!! I remember playing tennis and snow skiing 😁

[@justin188541]

Shark Shark! and AstroSmash were my favorites, and the ones I remember the most fondly. The sports games looked great, but they were only two player and I could never figure out the button layouts. Having to squint at the little overlay while the game was ongoing was always sub - optimal.

[@karnov27]

great list, just missing the amazingTron: deadly disc

[@wizzgamer]

Thank You 😊

[@Rob774]

I came here to say this.

[@PuzZLeR_00]

Yes, I came here to say this too.

[@rinzlerthehunter539]

the best in my opinion

[@omnipop4936]

Favorite all-time!

[@badabing9234]

I had one in the 80s and the two games I played most was AD&D which I was addicted to lol.. and I think it was called B17 Bomber maybe. It used the intellivoice and you flew a bomber on missions and dropped them to hear the intellivoice saying sowing like "bombs away". Kids now just will never have that much enjoyment. There's too much for your mind now and attention spans are getting short. I remember being in a dark room playing AD&D and actually being creeped out.. maybe it was just nervous when I would get close to having to select a mountain of a color I didn't want because it was hard and close to a dragon lol.

[@Mr._Bassman97]

I liked Frog Bog and Snafu too. Sea battle was great. AD&D May be one of the best video games ever made.

[@box5bastard277]

Snafu was the game. Sea Battle was dope to, as well as Utopia yell

[@mdmjeremiah]

Night Stalker was one of my favorites with Sea Battle and Utopia.

[@speedbird737]

Cant believe you didnt include Soccer - amazing game was the only game that convinced me to buy an intellivision however my parents had other ideas and bought me a Commodore 64 - so glad they did!

[@funkydmunky1]

Well the C64 came out a long while after the Intellivision, was a complete modern computer at the time and was 3X the price. Lucky you but I don't understand your point.

[@brinkybrinkz]

Soccer was really fun. I can't believe I played this back in the day. Time flies. Track and Field, Summer and Winter games and Skate or Die was cool at the time. Trying to beat the records. Good times.

[@naidol]

Yip. You are absolutely correct. I used to have an Atari and my friend had an IntelliVision. His soccer game was the best. We all went to his place for that two player game. I really learned programming on my Commodore Vic-20 that had a Motorola 6502 microprocessor. But that was a few years later. I enjoyed building my own version of Space Invaders with those sprite graphics.😂. My parents and siblings used to bug me to unplug from the TV set cause the console used the TV 😂

[@michaelturner4457]

Soccer is the only game I can remember playing on the Intellivision.

[@NYyazoofan]

No list is complete without B-17 Bomber (Intellivoice) and Baseball.

[@kevind814]

Also enjoyed the Intellivoice game Bomb Squad. You had to solve a code before a timer ran out. "The code, the code, you must find the code!"

[@scottpeart5857]

We played baseball seasons lol All night playoffs Ughhh Crazy competition lol

[@Mr.Smith101]

My older brothers HATED Baseball, mostly because they could never beat me. They had a hard time getting on base.

[@InevitableTruthTeller]

Advanced D&D was so cool, at the time. Skiing was a favourite in our neighbourhood as we all lived right next to a ski hill. The Crazy Canucks were at the top of their game, so we all fought to be the yellow skier.

[@keithbaker944]

Skiing was really fun

[@dallase1]

What's so special about the yellow skier? They are all the same , it's not like Auto Racing where each color of car has different attributes or Boxing.

[@InevitableTruthTeller]

@@dallase1 lol. The Canadian Ski Team wore yellow back then. So, we all wanted to be the yellow player, and pretend we were Steve Podborski.

[@stevenalexander6713]

Some nice selections on this list. My list would have to include Thunder Castle and Tower of Doom (the first game I played where your character could actually level up). Also, Hockey was fun. You could hit your opponents with your stick and it made a hilarious *thump!* sound when you knocked them on their rear ends.

[@ManekiNeko1972]

Bomb Squad. Incredibly innovative and tough for its time

[@Greg_M1]

Nice. My brother and I played Intellivision games many many times. Except for Adv Dungeons and Dragons, all the game mentioned in this video came later. We played the original games -- Bi-plane, Football, Baseball, Adv Dungeons, Auto Racing, etc.

[@49ers_ns_94]

I loved the D&D games. I laughed when he saw the dragon and how slow it was. On higher levels, you had to shoot before you could see them or they would kill you.

[@goodrich06]

I like the Dungeons and Dragons 🐉

[@mattg3026]

Ha. I thought the same thing. Why is the dragon moving so slowly?? Then I remembered I always played on the highest difficulty.

[@livefromalaska]

Agree 100% on your #1 choice. Me and my brothers played Advanced Dungeons & Dragons for hours and hours! Thanks for bringing back some great memories.

[@DougMcDave]

I really liked Imagic "Microsurgeon."

[@Mr.Smith101]

This brings back soooo many memories. We had the intellivision and our neighbor had the 2600. We had the best of both worlds as kids!!

[@253332]

DandD was great... Sea Battle, B17 Bomber and sports games, too

[@randombarbarian5637]

Thanks for the vid... i also like the music in between the countdown too. Nice touch

[@wizzgamer]

Thanks for watching glad you enjoyed it 😊

[@HallyPorter]

Was hoping Advanced Dungeons and Dragons would be number 1 and was not disappointed. Such tension in that game!

[@Moist369]

Sooo many great memories flooding my mind. Flashes everywhere. Awesome 👌

[@patsfan4life]

Never knew the Int version of Demon Attack has a final boss! Nice!

[@UltimateEnd0]

AD&D must've been incredibly revolutionary back then.

[@gmc6790]

Bump and Jump & BurgerTime will always be my top two. Great childhood memories. Honorable mention for Joust.

[@jsods1]

Burgertime was the best arcade port ever put out by Intellivision. Donkey Kong was the worst.

[@ProfitPathTV-zf6je]

Bump 'n Jump was pretty good, too.

[@rbb9753]

Surprised I don’t see a lot of love for Utopia here …

[@Dazlidorne]

7:49 Atari, this is how you make a Pac-Man game.

[@SlickDonaldRichard-rk94]

The Sports games + Night Stalker.

[@keithbaker944]

I remember playing nightcrawler and the AD and D game all the time as a kid

[@brianmarsiglia2979]

This was so fun to watch. Brings back many happy memories

[@Joe-gb3lu]

Loved your #1 pick, as well as the other D&D game and Utopia

[@thatscottishengineerguy9606]

Therapist: Where do you think your anxiety began? Me: Intellivision AD&D.

[@AngryKiko]

My faves were AD&D, Astrosmash, Burgertime, Bump & Jump, Atlantis, and NFL Football! I remember the first weekend we got it, my dad and I playing Astrosmash until 2 AM and our thumbs just killing us the next day.

[@Michelle-st9yc]

I played all these games as a kid. I loved them so much.

[@zalden2565]

Night stalker, super pro football, Atlantis, masters of the universe ….my favorites. I also enjoyed armor battle, star strike, and lock n chase….i also feel it’s relevant to share that I’m an 80’s/90’s kid. I primarily grew up with snes….but my parents had an Intellivision and some games and I thoroughly enjoyed them alongside my 16 bit console!

[@JediMulder24x]

Good old Lock n Chase - that was my jam back in the day!! Well, that, Burger Time & AD+D!!

[@generaldisarray4146]

I cannot accept this travesty. On this entire list, B-17 Bomber was never mentioned.

[@tommcdermott11]

Exactly...I watched the whole thing thinking "Where's B-17? Why is this stupid Space Invader clone game on here and not B-17?"

[@jdneilso]

100%

[@nsweatherrumors]

That was not the target

[@scottpeart5857]

Dragon fire , Baseball and Football ! B17 Bomber , Night Stalker !

[@johnphantom]

I had AD&D, Pitfall and Popeye, but the game I think we played the most was Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack. I don't use it often, but playing the game a child with no real stakes made me respectable at poker.

[@TheOnlyGuyInTheVillage]

Ah, the Intellivision. My Dad and I had running high score battles with Burger Time and Lock 'n' Chase. He'd set new high scores at night when I was in bed, and I'd come home from school the following day and beat him before he got home from work. Repeat ad infinitum. But yes, no Tron Deadly Discs? Also, B-17 Bomber with the speech module blew my tiny 8-year old mind when it arrived! However.... absolutely no mention (even in the comments) for the other great 'speech' game Bomb Squad? A classic!!!

[@mygad]

I remember the only place I got to try out a Intellivision was when I was babysitting at a more well off family than mine. Good times. Good games.

[@blizzard71]

There were just so many great titles for the system ~ the sport games were some of the best compared to other systems, and I would have to say it was my favorite system back in the day . As a kid me and my brother and friends would play this system for days on straight . And I remember when you could go and rent games before you bought them, the good days for sure .

[@BrickBoyzLego]

Thank you for the memories!

[@やのひとさのひと]

子供の頃にショップのデモ機で遊んだ事があります。懐かしいです。 SoundC機能が素晴らしい。

[@thesledge1969]

Loved my intellevison. Which I knew where to get one with games

[@JGKingCrusher]

#1 game was Tron Deadly Discs. Absolutely loved that game.

[@omnipop4936]

The programmers knew you'd figure out how to just hang out next to the open doors and teleport back and forth while safely shooting at the blue guys, so they created the "final boss" _orange guys,_ who could emerge from any of those doors and _end you_ with one touch from their paralyzer rods! Game over!

[@BiBo24-]

intellivision baseball was so good even with the limited graphics! had to use every key on the pad!

[@marcd.3560]

wow presque tous jouer quand j'étais jeune adolescent! merci

[@martys2001]

I loved Maze-a-Tron.

[@EchoRhythmMusic]

Whoa..memory unlocked with Bump And Jump

[@donnagormannewell5225]

AD & D Tressure of Tarmin was my favorite, and a very early FPS. B17 Bomber and Space Spartins where great games but required the Intellivoice add on. Dreadnought was a good 3rd party game where you had to fly your fighter over a massive enemy space battle crussier, shooting it's gun turrets and bombing it's engines.

I loved the Intelllivision system.Had the voice box and the ‘computer’.

[@hlriiiviiiv]

B-52 Bomber with the voice pack. Also anyone else notice in pitfall when you grab the vine to swing, it plays an synth version of the Tarzan yell.

[@ScorpioSka]

Is there any emulator or some way to play all the intellivision games? AD&D was always a favorite along with the Dreadnaught Factor... would love to play those again!

[@salvaged_title]

My jams! Pitfall and Advanced D&D FTW!

[@user-ty2uz4gb7v]

What about the baseball game. Also there was that space fighting game where the enemy ships look like the ones from Battlestar Galactica I can't remember the name

[@alphawoolf5981]

Literally called Space Battle, lol. It was a simpler time.

[@omnipop4936]

Yes! 'Major League Baseball', with the 8-bit "Yerrrr out!" umpire "voice," and the 8-bit crowd "cheering". 😄

[@EduStarling]

Good list, but some honorable mentions: shark shark, frog bog, snafu and tron: deadly discs

[@noahhenson1669]

Replace Burger Time with AD&D: Treasure of Tarmin, Dig Dug with Basketball, and put TRON: Deadly Discs at the #1 spot, and I agree with... well, most of the selections!

[@Chris_34]

Beauty & The Beast 😘 Atlantis 💪

[@goodrich06]

I think I had Atlantis.

[@Chris_34]

@@goodrich06 Atlantis was an awesome game for its time.

[@domicdom2483]

Imagine going back in time to the early 80s with a ps3 or ps4 and showing them Borderlands, Bioshock or Fallout 4? Where is a movie about this? They should make one. Lets say a guy goes back in time and shows another teen one of those games as that teen would faint due to not believing what he is seeing. Then they try to keep the games their secret as they keep on playing those games until his little sister finds out then eventually the whole world.

[@TheMindfulOne]

Nice list! I would add Tron deadly discs and Thunder Castle.

[@wizzgamer]

@@TheMindfulOne Thanks those are great games too ☺️

[@discostu9654]

Thunder Castle needs to be on this list...and the Ms Pac-Man homebrew is fantastic

[@jimx117]

I got a boxed INTV for $10 back in 2008. By sheer luck I was able to get probably 20 different games for an average of $5/each. My own favorites included Burgertime, Dracula, and Microsurgeon - Imagic was really pushing the envelope back then! AD&D: Tower of Tarmin was pretty technically impressive for the time too, but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the original AD&D game.

[@brandenmcgee5125]

Dungeons and Dragons was a GREAT game on the Intellivision. Hot take: In the harder levels, the dragon is smiling when it stomps on you. 😜

[@omnipop4936]

😄 Also, there's a secret cheat that lets you teleport past all forests, rivers and mountains - putting you _instantly_ next to the big, final mountain (with the crown pieces).

[@brandenmcgee5125]

@@omnipop4936 Yes. If I’m not mistaken, you went to the top left corner of the screen, and pushed up twice.

[@ScrapKing73]

Great video. But no Loco-Motion? No Sub Hunt? No Beauty & The Beast? No Atlantis? No Swords and Serpents? Not even in the honourable mentions?

[@mpmyers123]

Excellent video as allways👍👍👍

[@wizzgamer]

Thank you Mark 😊

[@robertlahue83]

The two not on this list I would definitely advocate for are Tron Deadly Discs and Thunder Castle. Along with Pitfall, Activision also made a port of Stampede that was pretty solid.

[@MrSaints74]

Loved Tron, never played Thunder Castle.

[@JohnnyUtah15]

Stampede was fun, and I liked Sub Hunt.

[@goodrich06]

I liked Demon Attack, Tron, Skiing, Atlantis, Burger Time, Soccer, Dungeons and Dragons, Pitfall, Sea Battle, Utopia, And the Casino Card Game too 😂 There was a space game too that you would use a jet pack to move around space and shoot things. I forgot what it was called ugh! I always wanted the Intellivoice for the Bomber game but never got it. 🎮

[@rollotomassi4768]

IDK why but that click on Astrosmash added so much stress.

[@stllda909]

I had most of the 1-10 list. Endless hours of fun.

[@jhunter1030]

Bump and Jump was my favorite. Not much 'bumping' going on in your video. LOL

[@BoJangles42]

Bump ‘n Jump RULED 🔥🔥🔥

[@JohnnyUtah15]

I didn’t have an Intellivision, but my two younger cousins (brothers) had one, and I played it as much as I could. Some of the games they had that I can recall were: Major League Baseball NFL Football Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Lock 'N' Chase Night Stalker Shark! Shark! Sub Hunt Astrosmash Bump 'n' Jump BurgerTime Stampede Someone mentioned Frog Bog, I forgot that they had it in their collection of games. I’m pretty sure I left some off the list. My favorites to play were NFL Football and Sub Hunt. I could waste some time with Sub Hunt, pretty fun to play once I figured out a strategy. The one thing I didn’t like about the Intellivision was the controller. Odd way of controlling the game with the control disc and the four buttons (two on each side) really did a number on my thumb and fingers since I didn’t play it that often. Overall, it was a cool console with some awesome games. I wish we had one.

[@buckodonnghaile4309]

So this is where people in their 50s (or close to it) hang out. I loved Intellivision

[@SebastianGMSFB]

If 8-bit is an accurate depiction for the Sega Master System's graphics, then the SMS makes Atari 2600, Intellivision, and ColecoVision's graphics look like 4-bit at best (by comparison). Yes, I know that binary-number bits are not the literal way to define video-game graphics (and even soundfonts), but taking it from the popular arbitrary dissection, that's how I would see those three super-retro consoles as 4-bit rather than 8-bit.

[@wildhorsestudios1209]

Missed all the later Intellivision 2nd life as INTV and what did games better yet in in the late 1980s until the very end around 1989.. Super Pro Sports with Basketball being the best - which brought in player management and coaching actual player starting at a draft - most fun with two players. Ability to play against the computer added to each sport - baseball and football too. 3-D Dungeons and Dragons - using the keypad to swap items from left or right hand and your pack. Spells and potions that added powers to fight, increase value of treasure, and best one see through walls - - with the computer getting back at you by ability to steal every item in your pack.

[@monkeyb1820]

are you describing D&D treasure of tarmin? in that one you walked up and down 3-d looking hallways. I would deliberately head north and south, drop down like 100 floors or so b/c the best potions and weapons were on lower floors, then I could win at any moment, but I'd keep going down more floors. That was sort of the fund 'easter egg' of that game. It was a great game. So much fun getting the xray vision potion, as well as the one that would turn crappy weapons into platinum.

[@ilovebaseballcards9334]

I still have my Intellivision !!!! Just need an old TV for it

[@Rob774]

Take the atari games off the list, add in D &D, Tron Deadly Discs, Beamrider, Triple Action, Snafu, Shark Shark and Sea Battle.

[@Iffy50]

So many memories... I didn't even own one, my cousins did.

[@AndrewC.McPherson-xf5zw]

Bump and jump is super cool and hard.

[@vanessareed6837]

Great memories - what about B17 Bomber!

[@CatoBlox]

Como se llama la canción del principio del video???????

[@ellkbong]

Labyrinth Zone - From Sonic the Hedgehog

[@DenisloveCoby]

Atlantis , beauty and the beast , baseball , D&D treasure of tarmin , microsurgeon, the dreadnaught factor , utopia

[@rustycagechannel]

Great list my friend 👍

[@wizzgamer]

Thank you so much for the support 😊

[@someordinarybruh2851]

Sea Battle and Space battle along with Auto Racing was fun for me and of course all that were mentioned too

[@scorefuxxon2753]

Would have liked to see that tank game too where there were exploits so that if you shot just right towards a wall the bullet would bounce through the wall and hit the opponent. :)

[@Maestrohbill]

Armor Battle

[@scorefuxxon2753]

@@Maestrohbill No, that's not the one. I think the one I'm talking about is the one that were bundled together with 4 other mini-games like Snafu and some others.

[@Maestrohbill]

@@scorefuxxon2753 You may be talking about Triple Action. It had three games: one was a car race, one was planes, doing dogfights, and the other was the tank battle where you could bounce shots off of the wall and hit your opponent. I liked that one as well, and I wasn’t much of a fan of armor battle.

[@MainStreetBusinessStrategies]

You left out AD&D Treasures of Tarmin, an AMAZING game for the time! 3D dungeon crawler!

[@98talberg]

40 years of playing Advanced Dungens and Dragons off & on and I have yet to complete it.

[@notta3d]

If I could tell you how much time I spent Advanced Dungeons and Dragons when I was a kid. Good call.

[@anvil067]

Demon Attack was pretty fun. I once played until the game shut off. I think you had to complete 86 levels.

[@Madisongs]

Good post

[@wizzgamer]

Madisongs Thank You 😊

[@SteveCole73]

Perfect choice for number 1.

[@iampostal]

utopia the precursor to civilization

[@JFactor420]

Yes, and it was multiplayer too. I keenly remember the dread of seeing a hurricane coming towards your developed island or your opponent spamming out PT boats and making a line with them and blocking your fishing boats. Good times

[@Atarifan72]

Are any of these games Homebrew? Didn’t know they made all of these for this system.

[@stevew8513]

You should see some of the homebrews made for the Intellivision. There's a lower-res but completely accurate version of Super Mario Bros. that looks jaw dropping. The music is identical. There's also a pretty decent looking version of Castlevania.

[@mrclown6766]

Donkey kong was a tire fire. Got it for Xmas, popped it in and cried.

[@iconpoet]

Baseball, football and boxing need to be on there

[@emerliss962]

D&D Treasure of Tarmin, Night Stalker, Happy Trails, Baseball & Astrosmash were amazing! Everyone in our neighborhood had Atari but we were the only house w Intellivision so everyone wanted to play at my house bc Atari got boring for them!

[@tommcdermott11]

Going to echo what others are hinting at or outright saying: this ranking is somewhat useless without including any sports games, or Sea Battle, or any of the more inventive games. You have to be kidding that in your top 10 you've got two Space Invader clones, Pitfall and Pac Man...and leaving out baseball, skiing, football, etc., etc.

[@goodrich06]

I used to like skiing ⛷️