I was also lucky enough to get an Intellivision. At first my friends with Ataris weren’t impressed–they especially because it lacked a joystick. I believe there was a joystick attachment that could be clamped to the paddle, but I never bothered with that. And my friends ended up coming to my house because they preferred the Intellivision.
At the time I had no clue who Plimpton was but now I like to joke that they hired him to appeal to the Paris Review reading gamer.
