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VIDEO GAMES FROM ONE CLASSIC TO ANOTHER!

INTELLIVISION RELEASES INTELLIVISION LIVES! FOR NINTENDO GAMECUBE 

Dine on a Virtual Slice of Hal’s Pizza and Relive 1982 with Classic Intellivision Games such as Astrosmash, Space Armada and Snafu! 

LOS ANGELES (August 2, 2004) – Time to dig out those parachute pants, 12-sided dice and Flock of Seagulls albums because the 80s invasion has finally hit the Nintendo GameCube with the release of Intellivision Lives!  This addicting slice of video game nostalgia comes loaded with more than 60 of Intellivision’s classic games all on one disc, including Astrosmash, Night Stalker, Shark! Shark! and Baseball.   

Intellivision Productions, Inc., the company that popularized home video games in the 1980s, in association with Crave Entertainment and Realtime Associates, takes you back in time to when Members Only jackets were the rage, Duran Duran rode the radio waves and the Rubik’s Cube was driving people crazy! 

Intellivision Lives! places the gamer in a 360-degree 3-D pizza parlor environment called Hal’s Pizza, circa 1982.  Arcade machines, serving as an interface to the more than 60 games available, line the walls of the restaurant sporting different themes – space, sports, combat & sorcery, arcade, gaming, unreleased, and kids.   

Other exciting features include the original Intellivision TV commercials, never-before-released games, “radical” game modes, and two exclusive historical documentaries featuring interviews with the Blue Sky Rangers, the name given to the original Intellivision game programmers.  The pizza arcade also features a jukebox that plays music inspired by the Intellivision console and many of its games.     

“We’re excited to have Intellivision Lives! available for everyone,” said Keith Robinson, president/co-founder of Intellivision Productions, Inc. and an original Blue Sky Ranger.  “Now gamers can enjoy their favorite Intellivision games on the three most popular gaming consoles!  Intellivision Lives! is more than just a game collection.  With all these extra features, the games have taken on a new life for a new generation of video game players.” 

Intellivision Lives! comes loaded with more than 60 of Intellivision’s classic games including:     

  • ·        Astrosmash

  • ·        Baseball

  • ·        Basketball

  • ·        Buzz Bombers

  • ·        Football

  • ·        Golf

  • ·        Hockey

  • ·        Hover Force

  • ·        Motocross

  • ·        Night Stalker

  • ·        Pinball

  • ·        Shark!  Shark!

  • ·        Skiing

  • ·        Snafu

  • ·        Space Armada

  • ·        Space Battle

  • ·        Space Hawk

  • ·        Star Strike

  • ·        Sub Hunt

  • ·        Thin Ice

  • ·        Thunder Castle

  • ·        Tower of Doom

  • ·        Vectron

  • ·        Volleyball

  • ·        Wrestling

  • ·        And many more!!
     

Intellivision Lives! was developed by Realtime Associates, the software firm founded by David Warhol, another Blue Sky Ranger.  Realtime Associates produced all the original Intellivision games published by INTV Corp. in the mid- to late- 1980s.  Intellivision co-founders Robinson and Stephen Roney were involved in each stage of development to ensure that the design and game emulation are faithful to the original Intellivision system.   

Published and distributed by Crave Entertainment, Intellivision Lives! (MSRP $19.99) for the Nintendo GameCube will be available this fall through mass merchants and online retailers nationwide.  Intellivision Lives! is also currently available on the Sony PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft. 

About Crave Entertainment

Based in Los Angeles, California, Crave Entertainment is a privately held publisher of video game entertainment products.  Crave produces games for the major console platforms including Game Boy® Advance, Nintendo GameCube™, the PlayStation® game console, PlayStation®2 computer entertainment system, and the Xbox® video game system from Microsoft.  For more information about Crave Entertainment, please visit www.cravegames.com.

About Intellivision Productions, Inc.

After the fall of Mattel Electronics, the maker of Intellivision, the game programmers (coined the Blue Sky Rangers), who were friends as well as coworkers, remained in touch. Annual reunions and newsletters kept the Rangers informed of each other’s goings on, but the world heard little of them. The Blue Sky Rangers had a unique story to tell, so in 1995, Ranger Keith Robinson created the Blue Sky Ranger Web site to help share their story. Because of the massive traffic and numerous requests for a way to play Intellivision games on today’s computers, Robinson and fellow Ranger Stephen Roney founded Intellivision Productions, Inc. in 1997. They bought the rights to the Intellivision system and games and made them PC and Macintosh compatible for millions to relive the excitement of Intellivision. In 2000, Digital Press named Intellivision Productions the Classic Game Publisher of the Year. Knowing the popularity of their classic games, the company has released them for the PlayStation2, Xbox, portable handhelds and direct-to-TV controllers.  For more information on Intellivision or other retro games and systems, please visit the company Web site at www.intellivisionlives.com.



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