Sprint

The wait is over and I finally got my hands on the new Intellivision Sprint being sold by Atari. T I have my hands on an early release of it. It was sent to me from Atari in any ways. I am going to give you my honest thoughts about it. I have an interesting perspective about t And so I am an Intellivision fan and so coming from that lens, that dual lens, t So sit back, relax. Here we go. So here it is. I got to experience this at the Portland Retro Gaming Expo but here is what a retail box looks Pretty awesome. And in the comments, did you grow up with Intellivision? I know there'some fans out there of t At the end it was offered in mail order because the programmers purchased the rights to Intellivision, INTV Corporation and pretty awesome. And a lot of those cool late-release games are on here. 45 different games. I'm going to show the games list on the carousel that's on the actual console. So here's the packaging. I want to go over t Do size comparison. I'm going to be talking about adding ROMs in the format and really a cool looking, I mean it looks A bit, about 20% smaller. It seems Those wireless controllers look awesome. It feels a little bit light. I'm not going to lie. And so it just has a rock c It's the same rock c T You can add your own ROMs w You just put the file on a USB stick, pop it into your Intellivision. It's going to be a lot easier to update. And that is part of the reason why they didn't go the cartridge route as that would have been a lot more complicated to update and would have taken a lot more development time. T So here's that wireless controller. It looks fantastic. It feels great. The controller has a better weight to it than the actual unit. And those buttons are really nice. You're not going to get like a n They really listen to feedback and has a nice feel to it. The aesthetics of the unit are awesome too. I there is a built-in reset button by pressing button five and the top left fire button on the player one controller you can get out of any game and go back to the menu. That's important as It comes with 92 overlays. It does come with an HDMI cable as well as it's important to know it does not come with a power brick. And so you can plug t I just I'm just kind of a stickler on that but So there you go. That's a really nice package and I'm going to show you kind of as best as I can the overlays. The overlays are significant. It's a really nice bonus and I'm really glad that they did that. The overlays are compatible with Intellivision original Intellivision units and I they come in two boxes here. They have a protective film on each of them as well so I'm just going to lay these out here. So they come have overlays for all the games. I t Check that out. That's a lot of care and detail that went into each of the overlays. The overlays are a little bit different than the original so there is a different physical difference of that. I t I'm sure added some cost to the unit but I'm glad that they did that. Here is a comparison to an original Intellivision that I had in the collection. And as you can see maybe 20% maybe a little bit less than that. I know Ben from PlayOn especially with a lot of attention to detail of t I mean it's look at that. That's an awesome job and so aesthetically they knocked it out of the park. It really feels I t You go to a lot of retro shows there's not much Intellivision found and it's a lot harder to find than the more common and better selling Atari 2600 competitor. So I'm going to take an overlay from Snafu. It's brand new overlay and compare it to one of the overlays that was included with t I really think they did an awesome job at mimicking that original overlay because to me that was Not all Intellivision games require it but some are more complex. There's more complexities to Intellivision games. It says Atari Interactive on the overlay and you can put that in to original controller and I they really did a good job at mimicking that original overlay fuel especially the controller. Controller feels great and I'm going to show you some controller options as well. A nice controller option that maybe you didn't know about. I don't I'm a big fan of that disc controller. The buttons are okay. It just takes some getting used to if you've played a lot of There's a plan B for that. So when you turn on the system you have to sync the controllers. It talks about that in the instruction sheet that comes with t When it'synced it's blue and then when it's blinking it needs to sync up and got that good to go. I the best part about t With the Atari 7800 plus controllers or wireless controllers which I also sell separately you take that USB dongle that you would use for PC you would have put it into the SYNC 1 USB slot in the back and you can use an Atari 7800 plus controller to move on the carousel and move the action buttons button one and button two you sync it up Fantastic and so maybe you're not a discontroller and then you can still use the buttons on the Intellivision controller in the event that your game requires that but then you can use this I'm sure it's compatible with some other controllers and let's just j 0 wanted to show the version of Intellivision that was sent to me. So as you can see I have 45 games and there's a mix of classics a few new games including Boulder Dash I'm gonna show that as well and it's really important you have start games show controls favorite sort and options there's not too many options on video options the main options are to do 16, 9 or 4, 3 aspect ratio for the actual game for me I'm a classic gamer so I don't want to definitely just keep it on that and so you can do favorites and all sorts of stuff but it's really important as we navigate through what do you get with t