Mind Strike



INTELLIVISION CARTRIDGE [Mattel Electronics #4531]
Release 1983
AKA Mindstrike
Design/Program/Music/Sound: David Warhohl
Gameboard designs: David Warhohl and Mark Buchignani
Graphics: Connie Goldman, Peggi Decarli, Joe [Ferreira] King

DEVELOPMENT HISTORY
Mind Strike was an original game that David Warhol had created before coming to Mattel Electronics.
He started work on it as an Intellivision cartridge. Since the Master Component didn't have enough memory for a computer player, he designed it as a two-player game.
When the Entertainment Computer System was introduced with its extra RAM, Dave was asked to change Mind Strike to a one- or two-player ECS cartridge. He proposed making it two-player for Intellivision, one-player for ECS, but Marketing insisted on it being unplayable without the ECS module in order to boost ECS sales.


