Hypnotic Lights

A puzzle game -- move rows and columns of squares to line up matching colors. While experimenting with Intellivision graphics, someone in the Design & Development department came up with a kaleidoscopic effect using sequenced GRAM. VP of...

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Name Hypnotic Lights
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Platform Mattel Intellivision
Release Date 1981
Game Type Unreleased
ESRB Not Rated
Developers Mattel Electronics
Publishers Mattel Electronics
Genres Puzzle
Max Players 2
Cooperative No
Rating

Community Rating: 4.5
Total Votes: 6
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Video Link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4ZLK4UvAk
Overview
A puzzle game -- move rows and columns of squares to line up matching colors. While experimenting with Intellivision graphics, someone in the Design & Development department came up with a kaleidoscopic effect using sequenced GRAM. VP of Applications Software Gabriel Baum liked the effect, dubbed Hypnotic Lights, and asked programmer Steve Roney (Space Spartans) to work it into a game. Steve's reaction was pretty much: yeah, right, what game? Marketing had a suggestion: something sort of kind of like a Rubik's Cube. That's what Steve sort of kind of gave them. But while Steve continued to tinker with it when not working on higher priority games (including B-17 Bomber, Aquarius Utopia and Space Shuttle), Hypnotic Lights was never elevated to "official" status.
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