Episode 48: The Show Must Go On

In this episode, the guys review the Intellivision Collector title “The Show Must Go On”.  We also have an interview with Carlos Madruga, the programmer of the game, and also an interview with Tom Boellstorff and Braxton Soderman authors of the upcoming book “Intellivision: How a video game system battled Atari and almost Bankrupted Barbie”.  All this and Intellivision news plus a segment on playing Intellivision games on a Nintendo DS.

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00:00:00 – Welcome / “Intellivisionaries Theme (2023 remix)” by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen / “Once In Paris” by Pumpupthemind, pixabay
00:44:22 – Feedback
00:50:14 – Intellivision Day Promo with Sir David Attenborough
00:51:19 – News
01:36:16 – Interview: Tom Boellstorff, Braxton Soderman
02:44:02 – Deep Dive Review: The Show Must Go On (part 1)
03:19:20 – Interview: Carlos Madruga
04:20:45 – Deep Dive Review: The Show Must Go On (part 2)
04:59:03 – Retro Hobby Project: Intellivision on a Nintendo DS
05:24:23 – Intellivision FAQ bumper
05:26:04 – Wrap Up / “Treasured (2023 remix)” by Paul ‘Nurmix’ Nurminen
05:28:44 – Outtakes / “Waterfall” by RomanSenykMusic, pixabay

Links mentioned in the show:

IntelliClub Pro 2023 from IntellivisionRevolution
https://intellivisionrevolution.square.site/shop/HomebrewGames/7

Pyramid Warp from Cote Gamers
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354829-new-game-pyramid-warp/

X-Rally released by Intellivision Collector – CIB and ROM
https://www.intellivisioncollector.com/intellivision-games/intellivision-games/homebrew/intellivision-collector/x-rally.html

Lock ‘n’ Chase: Revenge of Lupin released by Intellivision Collector and Intelligent Vision
https://www.intellivisioncollector.com/intellivision-games/intellivision-games/homebrew/intelligentvision/lock-n-chase-revenge-of-lupin.html

ROM release at intellivision.us
http://intellivision.us/roms.php

Operation Cloudfire ROM
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355337-a-new-rom-has-arrived-at-intellivisioncollectorcom-preparing-for-prge/

David Harley is working on a Bomb Squad 2
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354958-bomb-squad-2/

Oscar has released 3 roms for his games: Castle of Death, Frankenstein’s Monster, Unlucky Pony’s Adventures
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355299-nanochess-store-updated-with-3-new-games/

Cote games rereleasing 3 games in their own packaging: Rick Dynamite, Runaway Train (Stop the Express), Caverns of Mars
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352871-3-new-games-available-soon-your-opinion-please/

Looks like Cote sold out but will do another batch if they get enough folks on the list
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354329-stop-the-express-rick-dynamite-cavern-of-mars-wait-list-for-the-2nd-run/

Lil Bro version of Battleship
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355012-lil-bro-battleship-a-new-recreation-of-an-unreleased-game-for-the-unisonic-champion-and-inty/

An FPGA Aquarious++ project
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/352635-introducing-the-aquarius/

Nintellivision 4.3 released
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355144-nintellivision-43-released/

Decle made a cool Playcable package for his brother
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355017-playcart-playtape-playcomp-and-cyber/

Atari bought AtariAge
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/354609-atariage-atari/

Atari 2600+
https://atari.com/products/atari-2600-plus

Frank Johnson, programmer of lots of 3rd party Intellivision games
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/355015-frank-johnson-programmed-inty-donkey-kong-and-a-load-of-other-games/

eBay thread showing weird cut up Intellivision boxes
https://forums.atariage.com/topic/174007-intellivision-ebay-roundup/page/620/#comment-5304298

Eric Brenn plate spinning on the Ed Sullivan show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb6NS_F5xTE

Install Twilightmenu++ on DS
https://wiki.ds-homebrew.com/twilightmenu/installing