Parker Brothers Video Games

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Parker Brothers really seemed to dominate my video game purchases in the early eighties and seeing this toyfair ad from '83 made me smile.


They had my favourite arcade game of all time (Tutankham) and the Star Wars license, so my loyalty was assured...


If I didn't have one of their games, it surely was on my wishlist, someday you will be mine Spider-Man!

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[jwyblejr]

Wish they'd put some of these on those Flashback systems.

[HardyGirl]

I have a lot of those for my Atari 2600. My fave is Reactor. I have all the Star Wars games, Strawberry Shortcake, King Tut, Frogger. I had a Spider-man game, but it didn't work right. I returned it, but never found another one at the flea market.

[Bruce Banner]

Cool! I still have a few Parker Brothers games for the Intellivision and ColecoVision, including Super Cobra, Tutankham, Frogger and The Empire Strikes Back.

[nobody]

I love the Revenge of the Jedi title. Are they worth anything because of the wrong title?

[Earth 2 Chris]

I LOVED that Spider-Man game. I never knew they made a Hulk game!

Chris

[Hedji]

Did they make these games for Intellivision? I didn't have Atari, so I had none of these. *sob*

[nazgul]

They never did make the Hulk game or the two Revenge of the Jedi games and the Lord of the Rings game. Prototypes of Revenge of the Jedi game 1 (later called The Ewok Adventure) and Lord of the Rings have been discovered...as well as mock up boxes for all 4 unreleased games

[Figuremod73]

Parker Bros. was alright. Not quite as good as Activision but they had a number of good ones. Qbert and Frogger on Intellivision are both well done. On atari 2600 i thought they did a great job with Super Cobra. I do like Reactor.

Lots of unreleased games for Intellivision to: http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bl...rkerbros.shtml

[jwyblejr]

Did they make these games for Intellivision? I didn't have Atari, so I had none of these. *sob*

Yeah,they're the ones in the gold boxes at the top. Atari 2600 ones are pictured in silver boxes.

[Hedji]

Ah, thank you. Man, why didn't I get those?

[Figuremod73]

The Intellivision could have done many of those games justice. I thought their port of Popeye for INTL was dreadful though.

[sprytel]

Parker Brothers Spider-man had an epic commercial. My brother and I still quote the Green Goblin, "...And you're running low on fluuuid!!!!"

[Earth 2 Chris]

^Yes! It uses the same costumes as the actors who made the mall appearances. I saw them when I was 5, so when this commercial hit, I was ecstatic.

Chris