West Karana

So, this was the big reveal they needed my phone number for yesterday. The Intellivision.

BACK IN THE DAY… Intellivision was the Atari 2600's big rival. Slightly better specs, way better sports games, they had famous journalist George Plimpton to hawk it (for some reason). I had no idea who he was when I was a kid, he was just the Intellivision guy.

Eventually through sheer weight of being first to market, Atari 2600 won, a bittersweet victory as it helped kill the first generation of home video game consoles soon after.

So it is with a real sense of irony that, after an unsuccessful resurrection by the WORLD'S BEST AND MOST FAMOUS VIDEO GAME COMPOSER Tommy Tallarico, the brand that killed it the first time is finally re-animating it as a "mini" console, with 45 built in games, overlays for their famous controllers, and apparently no easy way to use your existing Intellivision games in the system.

The actual Intellivision consoles are still around and not that rare, but this one will connect to modern monitors and you won't have to haunt used game stores for the games. The list of included games includes all the ones I'd want.

Will I get it? I don't think so. I REALLY don't need more consoles at this point (but I'm going to be getting them anyway). These 1970s/1980s games don't really hold up, so unless your nostalgia demands it, I don't know how necessary it is.