By popular demand, we now have an Intellivision RSS news feed! Get the latest updates from the Intellivision web site directly on your desktop via your web-based or stand-alone RSS reader. You can also add the feed to your web site, MySpace, Facebook or other profile page using one of the many free embedable readers you can find online, such as the one below.
The URL of the news feed is: www.intellivisiongames.com/rss.xml.
Last Friday, May 9, we reported that the Intellivision tribute band Astrosmash had recorded a cover of the 1982 hit Pac-Man Fever using sounds and music from the IntellivisionPac-Man cartridge. We posted a link to the band's MySpace page where you could hear the song.
Since then, Astrosmash has posted an MP3 of the song, available for free downloading! You'll find it on their web site, astrosmash.rocks.it.
Blue Sky Ranger Mark H. Urbaniec celebrates his birthday today, May 15. Mark designed and programmed the fast-paced, abstract Intellivision game Vectron. He also did the Intellivision version of the arcade game Pole Position.
Mark was one of the instigators of many of the more bizarre extra-curricular activities that took place at Mattel Electronics, such as sneaking a pool table into the vice president's office, circulating a memo that the company was moving to New York and creating comic videos.
In the video below from 1983, Mark plays a 60 Minutes correspondent doing a story about Mattel Electronics. (Watch for that pool table!)
Gamasutra, the online site of Game Developer magazine, has posted A History of Gaming Platforms: Mattel Intellivision. The nine page article is the fifth in a series. Earlier histories covered the Commodore 64, Vectrex, Apple II and Atari 2600. Guess they were saving the best for last. The article, written by Matt Barton and Bill Loguidice, includes photos of Intellivision hardware, game overlays and advertisements, taken from Bill's personal collection.
Astrosmash is a Los Angeles-based band formed in 2001 in tribute to Intellivision. From their MySpace profile: "Combining musical elements of psychedelica, space rock, progressive rock, dance music, and british pop with Intellivision and other weird sci-fi sounds, Astrosmash is your supersonic rocket out of the insipid, repetitive music of today and into the beautiful and intense music of tomorrow."
The band Astrosmash uses the name and graphics from the Intellivision Astrosmash cartridge with permission of Intellivision Productions, Inc.
Last Friday, May 9, we reported that the Intellivision tribute band Astrosmash had recorded a cover of the 1982 hit Pac-Man Fever using sounds and music from the Intellivision Pac-Man cartridge. We posted a link to the band's 
Blue Sky Ranger Mark H. Urbaniec celebrates his birthday today, May 15. Mark designed and programmed the fast-paced, abstract Intellivision game Vectron. He also did the Intellivision version of the arcade game Pole Position.
