{"id":34495,"date":"2025-10-28T08:40:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34495"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:40:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:40:49","slug":"not-in-the-market-for-an-emulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/28\/not-in-the-market-for-an-emulator\/","title":{"rendered":"Not in the Market for an Emulator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ed Driscoll at Instapundit <a href=\"https:\/\/instapundit.com\/753215\/\" target=\"_new\">links<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/video-games\/retro-gaming\/atari-just-resurrected-its-most-potent-foe-in-the-console-wars-from-45-years-ago-the-intellivision-spirit-usd149-console-comes-with-45-games-was-brought-into-the-atari-fold-through-ip-acquisition-last-year\" target=\"_new\">a story about a new Intellivision emulator coming to market<\/a>.  Made by Atari which bought the Intellivision IP last year.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the street price is $149.  Which is only a little less than the last original Intellivision I saw on the market <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/07\/20\/a-little-con-but-a-con\/\" target=\"_new\">three years ago<\/a>.  Which I passed up even though I had recently started a full-time gig back then.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, well.  Both the Instapundit post and the Tom&#8217;s Hardware story embed Intellivision ads which featured George Plimpton:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IMIV8I3BRfM?si=AVkfdGVf8EloCHt8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t Bill Cosby in between <em>I Spy<\/em> and <em>The Cosby Show<\/em> (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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34495"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34496,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34495\/revisions\/34496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}