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Game ID: 8831
Console / System: Intellivision
Title: Beamrider
Scarcity (loose): 4
Value in USD (loose): 7
Scarcity (complete): 0
Value in USD (complete): 0
Publisher: Activision
Section: 1
Designer: David Rolfe
Description: An interesting note about some Activision titles including this one. In order to conserve memory in individual cartridges, Intellivision systems themselves had a set of standard graphics stored in memory that programmers could access in their programs and not have to store the graphics within the cartridges memory. Most every Mattel-made game draws on this resource but Activision elected to use only their own graphics in Beamrider and not draw on Mattel's "free" graphics at all. Perhaps lawsuit-happy Atari put a scare into them?
Country / region: USA
Part #: M-005-03
System exclusive: 0
Periodical's review: Electronic Fun With Computers & Games magazine rated this game a 3 (out of 4).
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