Did anyone have an Intelivision system. It was the shitt for it's time. They had the best downhill skiing game. I do remember having to punch in like 10 numbers to run 1 play in the football game.
Never owned the system but definitely played that game. lol. Decades later…I was playing a snowboarding game on Xbox that was ten million times better than that ski game. Crazy.
I had an Intellivision and this was one of my favorites. The football game was brutal but so much fun. Every play was the Wildcat. And that horrible buzzer when you press the wrong button...
I’ll tell you what I miss as a kid is going to Mario’s Pizza, eating pizza and drinking root beer, and then playing the tabletop games with the roller ball, especially the football one. Also, Centipede.
It had to be the original in the Clear Lake City area back then. I don't think there was another one back then. Was it in Seabrook? It must have been. In the beginning, Clear Lake City was basically Oakbrook and an adjacent subdivision (El Camino I think). The rest was Johnson Space Center and a lot of empty and wooded fields (think 'Honda Hills'...if you ever heard that term...was a specific wooded area with nice hills where we rode motorbikes and it had its own big circle dirt track; was a great place; all homes now). lol
I can remember two pizza joints by NASA. There was Shakey's. and maybe it was another Marios I remember. there used to be a suit of Armour inside the door as you walked in, and the guys were always tossing dough. If I behaved at Marios in Seabrook I got spumoni for dessert. Winning. The first Marios i'm thinking of was on 146 by Marburgers sporting goods. Thats way back in the day.
Loved the Intellivision console except for the sore thumbs. Football & basketball sims were fun. Sega Genesis was our go to with Desert Strike & Flashback.
