Watchout for the pickles?

Had a good conversation at coffee time about why Intellivision was the best system ever made. In what other gaming system could you play tennis, crush martians, destroy asteroids, get chased by man eating pickles, and have various monsters beep meanly at you in a maze, all of this in 2D! Yes, the side controller buttons hurt after a while and maybe a disc wasn't the best way to control your game, but it was some of the most addictive gaming fun. I think because it took alot more imagination to get into the games. That was half the fun. I remember turning a corner in Dungeons and Dragons and having a Stick Man with a sheild scare the begeeses out of me. Now I turn the corner in games on my PS2 and a flesh eating realistic looking zombie doesn't even phase me. Oh a zombie, how about that? And down he goes.