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BurgerTime Had Us Running for Our Lives… Just to Make a Cheeseburger! 🍔😂

Long before Cooking Mama…

Long before Overcooked…

There was BurgerTime!

Your mission sounded simple: build giant burgers.

The reality? You were being chased across ladders by killer hot dogs, eggs and pickles! 🌭🥚🥒

Armed with nothing but a handful of pepper and lightning-fast reflexes, you’d squash your enemies beneath falling burger ingredients while desperately trying to finish each masterpiece.

It was weird.
It was frantic.
It made absolutely no sense…

…and we couldn’t stop playing it!

💬 Who remembers spending hours trying to outsmart those evil hot dogs?
Or did you play BurgerTime in the arcade before it came home?

#BurgerTime #Intellivision #Mattel #DataEast #RetroGaming

u/retrotoysandcartoons — 3 days ago
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Controllers.

Had my sprint about 2 weeks now enjoying it so far, love retro games, only thing I'm not happy with is the controllers, find them hard work. Anyone recommend any specific usb ones? Seen these on argos image above , seem to have good reviews, suitable?

u/mickdrip2 — 10 days ago
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Has anyone seen this mod?

Found this Intellevision [2609A] in rather pristine condition at a flea market. The odd bit is that the disks on the controllers are drilled and tapped for joysticks. The sticks seem to be MIA, but the canvas cover had holes cut for them.

I've not seen this, or found mention of it. I have not pulled one apart yet, but the discs are metal down through the threading.

This has what appears to be a lamp cord on it as well (with a separate power switch). Has anyone seen what I'm looking at? Is this a recent or vintage mod. It's very nicely done either way. I'm rather curious what the sticks looked like.

u/EsoTechTrix — 13 days ago
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Who here looks at Shark! Shark! as an analogy of managing finances?

Over time, when I tried to adjust my budget to fit my money constraints, I often thought of this Intellivision game Shark! Shark!

Well, here's how things go.

in Shark! Shark!, you start off as a little fish, but you gotta eat fish smaller than it to stay alive, and to also grow. Try an eat a bigger fish, and you're out.

so, by analogy, if you have a certain amount of money in your bank, generally speaking, you wanna make sure than any product you buy has it's price tag be 10% of your bank balance or lower, and to be patient with some time delays so you don't overspend, because doing that will allow your wealth to grow, or in the case of Shark! Shark!, by analogy, allow the playable fish to grow.

I thought long and hard about this, because sometimes it's hard to get a good ROI out of it. ROI could stand for Return of investment, or in the case of Shark! Shark!, and video games in general, reflexes of intuition.

when a small fish has to dodge sharks, think of it as a driver of a 20 year old Ford Focus trying to avoid Mercedes Benz S-class sedans that are driver by loan shark mobsters, or good people who got money from mobster loan sharks to buy it. Yup, another use of the word shark to throw in. On a side note, you don't want to deal with loan sharks just because you want that Mercedes or other luxury car.

While a 20 year old Ford Focus might cost $1,000 USD at a used car lot, a new Mercedes Benz S-Class sedan would cost $120,000 USD at a Mercedes dealership, so think of the 120x price difference as a reminder on how a giant shark is roughly 120x the size of a small pike.

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u/SupremoZanne — 10 days ago
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Resetting the Sprint?

Ok, so... I'm lazy.

I want to reset the system after finish a game or go back to the main screen.

Any ideas on that? Rather than get up and walk across the room, what are your solutions?

I got an Intellivision when I was a kid, so I tend to play it far more than anything else and the wireless controllers are a super nice feature.

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u/Coupe368 — 13 days ago