Here’s an except from IntelliVision Productions’ March/April 2003 newsletter; you can read the entire issue here. Of course, this is a bit outdated, I believe the latter picture dates in at August of 2002; the prior, well, was a lifetime ago, sometime in September of 2000. If you want an updated picture, I took one on May 19th, right after I finished another long night of software ports, you can see it via my image gallery. Yes, it was taken at about noon with the flash right at more forehead, but at least the colors are somewhat on-par this time! :)
THE INTELLIVISION DIET – NIBBLE THE POUNDS AWAY!
In October 2000, Intellivision fan Shawn Holwegner sent a photo of himself with his Intellivision collection (below left) to our Post My Mug page. Recently, he sent a new photo (below right) along with the following note.
I just wanted to share with you this wondrous new Intellivision diet plan. Feel free to pass it along!
Take a handful of entirely addictive childhood games, bring back via some rather excellent emulation work, release for both PC and MAC. Fold in PlayStation port, and cook for a few years.
Consume at will! In no time, you’ll have lost weight from sitting and playing the games you’ve loved for years, when you just can’t drag the console about with you!
This might not be 100% accurate, but this is what I’m sticking to.
Hi again! You might remember me as “Shawn from Northern California” – ergh – at Post My Mug. Have no fear, a new picture is here. I haven’t drug out all of my old garb, but I do have two shirts in the shot, two copies of Intellivision Lives 1.0, one copy of 1.1, and a copy of Intellivision Rocks. A subtle (read: bad) angle has the Activision Intellivision Classics beneath my iced tea, and what a wonderful coaster it doth make! ;)
Kudos to the crowd, and thanks for updating and compressing everything into this easier-to-swallow CD form. It has rather decreased my bloat as well!
Shawn Holwegner
When they asked for permission to use it in their newsletter, of course I was shocked, and quite mortified. Not only did they get my letter, they thought it was funny—and now they wanted to share it!
In retrospect, I should have asked them if they wanted to plug my ported emulators for “unsupported” or “alternative” operating systems, like jzintv for OSX, and Bliss for OSX, or perhaps even my port of the IntelliVision development tools SDK-1600 by Joe Zbiciak to OSX. Update: Joe’s got a beta of the SDK-1600 revision 4 available for Windows, Linux, and OSX at the SDK-1600 website.