Videogame Review, Lock ’N’ Chase for the Sears Super Video Arcade Console (Used Machine)

Videogame Review, Lock ’N’ Chase for the Sears Super Video Arcade Console (Used Machine)

This is a great Intellivision game!  Sears was a very popular market in the 80’s and the Intellivision was promoted by the sale of Sears’ own Intellivision console.  On this console, the volume is louder and more effective when the proper games are used.  Lock ’N’ Chase looks and feels like the arcade in everything: controls, graphics, difficulty, music, sound, etc.  For some reason my used machine displays the robber in most of the same except for the missing red face.  I like that.  Sometimes accidents in playing video games become remarkable.  There’s something peculiar about leading a pair of eyes around the maze in search for bank-related items while cops in sharp, bright colors chase me around.  The fire buttons are made of rubber and I’m sure that they’ve softened in touch over the years.  Intellivision 2 fire buttons are actually easier to push in the sense of fire button toughness but not necessarily from fire button construction.  That’s because Intellivision controllers generally are more or less of the same; if anything, it’s going to be the Intellivision Amico supposedly coming in 2020 which will have a really different version of the Intellivision controller.  Both Intellivision and most Nintendo controllers have direction pads.  So, what’s the difference?  I’ve explained much of the difference already and we can just look at our hands while playing either controller-kind.  Your hands are likely to be parallel during gameplay for the Nintendo Entertainment System; however, your hands are likely to be un-parallel during gameplay for the Intellivision- on a Nintendo console, your hands will probably look like they’re doing the same thing, whereas on an Intellivision console, your hands will not do the same things as each other.  Complications may arise between use for the Nintendo and Intellivision systems.  Lock ’N’ Chase is related to Pac-Man but very different.  After gathering the “dots” you’ll have to escape from the maze yourself upon each maze-completion.  Pushing the fire buttons for closing doors may get tricky depending on my conscious awareness for button-pushing motions, like what it feels like to break a cracker or what it feels like to unfold the corner of a blanket as Intellivision fire buttons do exhibit the challenge not only in controller-kind but also in game type.  Volume just bursts from the Sears Intellivision!  I suppose enough can be done in relation to music and sound.  Of course, the disc on my Sears Intellivision controller is slightly bigger than the black disc on my Intellivision 2 controller, and, even in its used state, I’ve found the Sears disc easier to manage.  When considering the controller’s “disc” or direction pad it’s like studying the difference between a 25-cent quarter and a silver dollar coin for the United States currency in America.  Mexico isn’t in America but it’s in North America, which America is also in… that’s confusing.