It might look very chunky, but BurgerTime on the Mattel Intellivision console is a surprisingly authentic representation of the classic arcade original.

The Intellivision was a capable console for the time – more capable than the Atari 2600, which was its main rival – and Mattel managed to squeeze most of BurgerTime‘s features into just a 16K ROM cartridge.

Intellivision BurgerTime even has a perfect rendition of the BurgerTime tune, which warbles away as you play.

I’m not entirely convinced that this was released in 1982 – the same year as the arcade game. I think it came later, in 1983, and all the copyright messages saying “1982” are referring to the copyright date of the arcade original.

BurgerTime versions on The King of Grabs:
Arcade, Apple II, Intellivision, PC, Atari 2600, ColecoVision,
MSX, Famicom Disk System

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