Help me to recognize this game - and console

[protek]

Back in the good old days, my cousin used to have this game console, which I think was either a Colecovision or an Intellivision. The controllers had a numeric keypad and a round direction plate. He had this game which was pretty cool. I just can't remember the name and haven't found any screen caps that would ring any bell at least on the Intellivision.

It is a single screen, depicting a bay, if I remember correctly. At least there was some land and sea. I think you commanded this cannon battery, which you used to destroy the enemy. The enemy would do some drop-offs from passing plane but I can't remember any other activities pof the enemy. The gameplay wasn't very intense so you could play quite long before a game over.

Does this ring any bells to anyone? A screencap would be nice, if come up with possible game.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Merlin]

That sounds like the CBS Colecovision to me, mate.....

 

[tokyoracer]

The Intellivision had gold coloured direction Disc's, do you remember the colours of the hardware? Was there a start-up screen when switching it on before gameplay?

 

[Merlin]

@ Tokyo

I added a picture of the Intellivision for you; I never realised that they were so similar in the design of the controllers....

 

[tokyoracer]

Aw Merlin, your too kind to me.

 

[Merlin]

Thinking about it, the game sounds a lot like Beach Head, that was released for the C64, but without the troop drop offs. The bay and cannons desciption is very similar to Beach Head.

 

[protek]

@Merlin: I remember Beach Head on C64 but I don't think that was it. The gameplay on Beach Head was simpler.

Looking at the pictures, I'd say it was the Intellivision that my cousin had.

 

[protek]

I did some digging in the web and came to a conclusion that the game I had played back in the good ol' times was Atlantis from Imagic released for the Intellivision. Here's one picture:

Spent hours playing that game. Should probably give it a try on some emulator.

For some reason, it looked much cooler back then...

 

[UberFreak]

Try the Atari2600 version of Atlantis, you might like it better

 

[protek]

Try the Atari2600 version of Atlantis, you might like it better

There seems to be a version for C64 also.