Intellivision Lives! part 3 – The Fall of the Early 80s Video Game Market

After focusing on the future of video games during last week’s Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, it’s time to look back at the history of video game development with an Exclusive 5 Part Series focusing on the people behind Intellivision.

Every year since Intellivision was shut down in 1984, the people behind the games have gathered at their favorite lunchtime spot, Original Jino’s Pizza, to recall the good times and the games that came out of their corner of the still very new video game universe. But this year they gathered at the Comic Bug in Manhattan Beach, California, to see some familiar faces, meet some of Intellivision‘s most ardent fans (they still ordered pizza), and to promote the release of the Intellivision Lives! 60+ game compilation now available on the Nintendo DS. I got to sit down with Intellivision Productions president Keith Robinson and a few of the other people who created some of the now classic (and some not so classic) games that came out of the early 80s.

This is the third part of a week-long, Pop Culture Geek Exclusive 5 Part Series, featuring video footage that will give you a peek into what it was like to make video games during the first Console War of the early 80s… a war that nearly everyone lost.

Click here to see part 1 – Meet the Blue Sky Rangers
Click here to see part 2 – The Rise of Intellivision

Today we discuss the probable factors that led to the demise of the home video game market in the early 80s and who Keith says are the true founders and innovators of the modern video game era.

The Fall of the Early 80s Video Game Market

Naming the Fathers of Modern Video Games