Ed Driscoll at Instapundit links to a story about a new Intellivision emulator coming to market. Made by Atari which bought the Intellivision IP last year.
Apparently, the street price is $149. Which is only a little less than the last original Intellivision I saw on the market three years ago. Which I passed up even though I had recently started a full-time gig back then.
Ah, well. Both the Instapundit post and the Tom’s Hardware story embed Intellivision ads which featured George Plimpton:
Forty-some years ago, a video game company had an upscale New York writer/author pitching their product. Were they targeting the Upper West Side? Did middle America know who George Plimpton was? I mean, he wasn’t Bill Cosby in between I Spy and The Cosby Show (who pitched the Texas Instruments 99 4/A computer, you damn kids). What a different country the past was. Or even the early 80s to the late 80s.
