It's great that Seth Rogen and his producer-writer pal Evan Goldberg are making a movie about the Nintendo/Sega battle.
I'm sure it was a doozy.
But despite owning a NES for a few years in the early 90s, there is another video game battle I remember, predating Nintendo/Sega by almost a decade.
Anybody remember Intellivision/Atari?
Bliss along with me, my fellow children of the 80s...
And this classic, featuring noted sportswriter George Plimpton...
I remember the Intellivision MLB Baseball game vividly, because my dad used to invite my uncles over for nice friendly games, and wait quietly for two things to happen:
1) The bases being loaded
2) My uncles being distracted temporarily by the call of nature
And then...they were out!
Intellivision did kick Atari's ass for a few years, before being done in by the sheer oversaturation of the video gsme market, and the unfortunate relative failure of its keyboard and voice sythesizer components.
But it ruled when it ruled. And I loved it.
Here's the whole story...
MTMG
