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Free Intellivision Games
By James Grahame
I have videogames on the brain today, courtesy of half an hour spent playing Galaxian. With that in mind, allow me to introduce The Mattel Intellivision -- the world's first 16-bit game console. I was never a big fan of it's awkward controllers and bank machine-like membrane keypad, but the console (and its descendants) remained on the market throughout the 1980s.
I rarely get to hawk free stuff, so this is exciting -- If you'd like to take a few Intellivision games for a spin, check out the free Mac & PC downloads from Intellivision Lives. They offer three free Intellipacks, featuring games like Astrosmash, B-17 Bomber, Skiing, and Space Spartans.
Of course, their evil plan is to make you want more. To that end, they offer reasonably priced Intellivision (and Colecovision) game packs for PC, Mac, Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube and mobile phones.
Free Intellivision game downloads (Intellivision Productions, Inc.)
