Single player game, not 2 player. Does not have the favorite biplane dogfight game.

I got this mainly for the game Shark Shark, and a few others. Great toy! Very fun! No problems yet with it. Recommend it strongly!

Intellivision was my fav system as a kid. Everyone else had and loved the Atari 2600 (I owned one as well) but Intellivision was far superior and the games were awesome! I still have my old 1980's unit as well as about 30 games still tuvked away in my closet. So when I saw this plug n play game of Intellivision, I was excited! They had for sale the 10 game unit or the 25 game unit, I bought the 25 games one.
Sadly, it's HORRIBLE! They are NOT the original games transfered or converted over but recreations. Some look just like the old classics, the sounds are close. Many of the games have been altered as far as game play goes. For example, they totaly murdered FOOTBALL. This wasnt the first Football game but the rare 2nd version from 1985. The 1985 cart was very fun to play, this one is a botched job! They made it a one player game, you cant kick FG's in it or even call pass plays....just absolutlry Horrible! I bought this unit and after 2 hours tops I was gonna throw it away, but my neighbor friend wanted it so I gave it to him.

I grew up with Intellivision, one of my fondest childhood memories. So I decided to buy this gizmo. At first glance it looks just like Intellivision. Then I started to notice slight differences. I researched on the Internet and according to Intellivision Lives website, this is NOT an emulation of Intellivision. It is a rewrite, using Intellivision grapics.

Some of the games are playable, some are not. I really think it was a rush job and they just did not have time to really work out the gameplay on each game. For example, Asteroids. The spinners REALLY move fast, yet your star blaster is quite slow. If the spinner hits the ground you lose a life. The star blaster goes so slowly most of the time its impossible for it to even get there in time. This was not how the original played. Most of the other games have similar issues.

I did get some enjoyment out of it. The games look very much like the original Intellivision counterparts. If you really want to relive Intellivision you should try the Intellivision Greatest Hits package for the PC, also available here at Amazon.

I grew up in the 80's and was soooo excited when I read about this since I loved Intellivision, and "Intellivions Lives!" for the PC, even though playing on the keyboard wasn't quite the same. So when I learned about this item where I could play from a controller hooked up to my TV, I was pumped! But I read poor reviews, so I waited to buy it at half price... but I'm sorry to say I still want my money back.

The product is advertised as being fun, but that 80's INTV fans will probably find it lacking. Well, I certainly found it lacking with games being shadows of what they used to be. And I can't imagine anyone new to INTV would find this enjoyable given the poorer graphics, lack of sound and game control (i.e., Baseball is a joke), and the slipshod programming that make even the easiest things difficult. So the short is to avoid it. But I'll go into detail with one game for those who are 80's INTV fans to show and why it's poor and why you should avoid it -- the ever classic "Nightstalker!"

Remember the sound in this game? That steady thump, thump, thump, thump like a heartbeat that instantly immersed you? That's gone, which means atmosphere is gone. However, I forgave that and pressed on. Then I found the game -- even though it looked mostly the same -- had drastically changed. Now bats are worth 100 (not 300), you can't shoot them while they sleep, and they never become robots after you hit 5000 points, which means that rather than 3 robots chasing you (and making it challenging) there's only 1 robot the entire game. Well, I thought I could forgive that too, but then I hit 10,000 points and was ready to face the white robot -- remember that one with huge bullets that absorbed your bullets and took 3 shots to kill? Well, in this version, it's bullets are normal and it only takes one shot to kill. (Not only that, but it's the last robot -- no black ones or invisible ones come later.) I found this unforgivable since I could have played forever because there was no challenge... except for one thing that caused the death of all my lives, which was poor game control. Sometimes it was difficult to take corners since you had to be perfectly lined up. Don't believe me? Well, listen to this -- at times, I'd actually get stuck in a straightaway corridor! How so? Because you can move your guy up or down within a corridor a couple pixels, which makes him stuck until you move him back up or down. But by the time you do that, you've been shot.

For fans of the 80's INTV, this is intolerable. And for new potential fans, how can a game be fun if the only challenge is trying to maneuver your guy? I could go into similiar detail for many others like Football (I couldn't figure out if it's even possible to pass, even though the computer can, but the manual only tells you how to hike and run) and Space Armada (one of the simplest games in the world, but they even ruined that!) Remember the clever INTV physics in Skiing and Golf? How your skier (or the ball when punting) would speed up, slow down, (or curve in Golf) with the sloping terrain? That's all gone.

All that said, do yourself a favor and go to the "Intellivision Lives" website and download a free copy of Nightstalker for the PC. The memories will flood back and newcomers will see how a classic really plays. Then consider buying "Intellivision Lives!" (At least for the PC -- I don't know about the others -- even though you'll have to play on the keyboard unless you find a good programmable PC gamepad like I did.) And I say this because I'm more than willing to support retro INTV, but the programmers have to support us back. It's a two-way street, and I can't sanction this product that actually has very little to do with INTV or fun.

I only gave it a 2 rather than a 1 because at least it seems they tried... to an extent.. and the idea of having INTV games work with the TV via a simple controller is great, but the execution is terribly lacking. As it is, I'll be returning or selling this item, rather than buying 3 more like I had hoped to give as gifts to my siblings.