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I was forced to play on an Intellivision. It was awful and uncool back then. The controllers were completely awkward. Why would I want to relive that now?

S/NES, Sega Genesis, and TurboGrafx-16 are cool.

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I think it's going to be what you remember. Intellivision competed against VCS (it's technically a 1970s system, after all), and in general the Inty games were stronger (programs didn't spend most of their existence trying to just draw the screen). It wasn't state of the art even by the time the NES (let alone the SNES) came out, so the comparison isn't all that fair. It's amazing the INTV System III sold at all, since it was just a repackaged Master Component.

For me, the disc pad on the Inty -- which the article author seems to have forgotten about -- wasn't the worst part of the controller, though you could really wreck them and I had to find good membranes to fix my Sylvania Inty. It was those damn side buttons.

Apparently the thing to do was get the Sears branded one, because Sears mandated plugin controllers, so you could replace them when they broke.

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It was a thing, caused by the stupid disk.

Fair enough. Atari 2600 was very cool.

I had the Coleco Adam and played hours of Gorf and Looping and enjoyed them a bunch. Conveniently also the only two games we had on cartridge...

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