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Intellivision's Greatest Hits is a dream come true for kids of the 1980s who had the video game back in the day. Designed for your personal computer, it has 25 of the Intellevision games featuring the original graphics and sounds. The only difference between this software and the original is that you can now play the games on the computer. Everything else is exactly the same. In today's PlayStation era, younger kids might turn their nose at these games and call them "dated" and "cheesy," and to some extent, they're right. But while the graphics may be crude, these games were, and still are, fun to play and are extremely addictive. All you need to do is insert the CD into your drive and use the menu to pick the game you want to play. It will then display the instructions and will indicate which keys to use on your keyboard to play (you cannot use your mouse). My favorites are "Astrosmash" (this one is among the most popular and will have you hooked in no time), "Night Stalker" (one of my favorites!), and "Space Armada." You also have games from the Intellivoice series including "B-17 Bomber" and "Space Spartans." Disappointingly, Intellivision's Greatest Hits also omits a few such as "Lock-n-Chase" and "Pitfall" due to, I assume, copyright reasons. But in addition to 25 games is a gallery of the original commercials that advertise Intellivision. If these commercials don't do anything else, they show what a long way we've come in terms of technology. When my original Intellevision finally broke in 1990, I thought I'd never play these games ever again. Now, thanks to this game, I can re-live 1982 all over again. Definitely recommended for video game freaks and for anyone who owned Intellivision.

I recently bought the TechnoSource "Collection in a Controller" Intellivision system and was greatly disappointed. So I picked up this collection for the PC and was much happier. It ran flawlessly, seems to have all the music and options and levels that the original games had, unlike the TechnoSource unit.

I'd definitely recommend this to any classic game fan.

I am really upset that you can't use the mouse to play this game. It is useless to me because I cannot play games with my keyboard. I wish I could send it back but I can't because its opened. If I knew you had to use the keyboard I never would have purchased it.