Thin Ice

[NeoZeedeater]

I have been enjoying this old Intellivision game lately.

Thin Ice has an interesting development history. It was originally going to be a port of the Data east arcade game Disco No. 1. The game was finished in 1983 but then it was decided that they were going to change it into a game based on the 1984 Olympics mascot, Voochko the Wolf. Then when Mattel Electronics died the game was cancelled. InTV finally released the game in 1986. There's more info here: http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bl...ts/intv1.shtml

Anyway, it's a simple and addictive game where you control a penguin who skates around enemies to cut the ice and knock them into the water. Anyone a fan?

[kedawa]

Never played it, but it looks like something I would enjoy. It sounds kind of Qix-ish.

[Dolemite]

Anyway, it's a simple and addictive game where you control a penguin who skates around enemies to cut the ice and knock them into the water. Anyone a fan?

Gameplay concept sounds simple yet cool, plus it has a penguin. Rock on. I'll try to find this emulated somewhere.

[James]

Poor penguin, dragging behind him the silent reproach of a million tear stained eyes.

There need to be more games with penguins in them.

James

[dog$]

I fucking hate those seals.

According to the liner notes in the recent InTV compilation, it's possible to skate around the entire rink and sink the stage. I can't figure out how that's possible.
That's probably the only thing which I don't get about the game; what exactly determines how long you can cut into the ice? Sometimes you can skate pretty far and other times the fissure line trails right behind you.

[Dolemite]

There need to be more games with penguins in them.

There's that one stage in Tekken 5 that's filled with them.

[James]

In Champions: Return to Arms there's that one penguin in the Plane of Torment on a small pillar way below playing area. You can't interact with it, and as it turns out, dropping an exploding potion on its head has no effect either.

James

[Destro777]

I used to tear this game up something fierce for hours and hours back in the day. It gets tough when the polar bears come out. I remember it being one of the last few intellivision games released i think. Intellivision rocked atari. Bump n jump was the best on this system. I still have mine.

[arjue]

This seems like the long lost ancestor of a sweet arcade game called dancing eyes.

[kedawa]

Well, I played it on the weekend on one of those Intellivision Lives gadgets.
It's pretty fun, although I think it would be better if you could travel in 8 directions intead of just 4.

I don't get what determines the length of the line, either.