Re:What's the interest? (Score 1)

> The outfielders moved in unison

Are you sure you didn't confuse this w/ Atari 2600 baseball? On the Inty, you used the keypad to select an outfielder in order to move it. Only one moved at a time. Once a player had the ball, you pushed the corresponding keypad button to throw it to another position.

Later, they released World Championship Baseball, which added fly balls, sliding into base, and probably a couple other things.

They also had World Series Baseball for their later computer add-on. You could save and load rosters, IIRC, and stats were based on real players - though the names were changed. It also used their voice add-on to have 'play-by-play' calling, an attempt at 3D presentation, multiple camera angles, and even picture-in-picture! Sure the graphics were lame (even compared to the Colecovision) but it had a lot of cool features for its time.

The initial Intellivision sports lineup totally blew away all the other console sports titles that had been released to that point.

(can you guess I'm a fan of the system? ;)