Which Game Console Did You Play "Masters Of The Universe: The Power Of He-Man" On?

[Mr. Shokoti]

Masters Of the Universe hasn't had a lot of video games much less ones of quality. In the US, we've only received one for GameBoy Advance, a few for various mid-80's computer systems(none of which I've personally seen), and The Power Of He-Man for Intellivision & Atari 2600. I had a lot of fun playing that last one as a kid. Sure, the graphics were typical of most pre-Nintendo video games of the early 80's, but I got to play as He-Man, fight Skeletor, and even hear a primitive version of Filmation's theme.



Which Game Console, if any, did you play Masters Of The Universe: The Power Of He-Man on?

Intellivision?


Atari 2600?


Even though I owned both systems, I only had it for Mattel's own video game console, Intellivision.

[EuroCoin]

I've never played any MOTU related games.

- Joni -

[Penny Dreadful]

One of my friends had it for Atari! I played it whenever we hung out and loved that it played the cartoon theme! Years later, I bought one for myself and played it a bunch of times. Unfortunately, I think I sold it with a lot of vintage MOTU stuff back in 2000 or so.

~Penny~

[motu77]

I played on the Intellivision but I never played it on the actual console. I was in Germany when it came out so AAFES never got it in stock. Plus the change in power 110/220 blew up our system.

I did evetually play it on the intellvision ROM/emulator many years later.

[Spacedust]

Never played it. ...Well, actually that ain't strictly true. I do have a few vintage computer emulators and a few years ago did fire up "Power of He-Man" for the Atari 2600. I played it for about 90 seconds for pure "Hey, this is the MOTU computer game" value, but haven't touched it since.

BUT... I did play the Masters of the Universe text game. I had the "posh eductational computer", the BBC B, as a boy (only sold on the U.K., but know to all Brit kids of my generation as they were the first computers in most schools), and this title was released for it.
I loved text adventures as a child, and the fact it was both MOTU and a text adventure... I was in heaven. Shame I didn't get to play it until years after the Beeb's reign and the machine was obselete. Well worth checking out via (legal) emulator of course - complete with "King Radnor" typo present throughout the game.

[Firefly]

I had the Intellivision game. It was a lot of fun. The only thing I didn't like is that you couldn't control He-Man during his sword battle with Skeletor.

[Night Stalker]

I've played it for both, but as a kid it was only on the Atari. I only knew one kid that had an Intellivision (his parents were very well-off financially) but everyone on the block had a 2600/VCS and MOTU: POHM was one of those titles that everybody seemed to have, right along with Pac-Man and Pitfall.

The best version, if you can find it, was the unreleased Colecovision edition. It played as smooth as the Atari version but had the better graphics of the Intellivision edition, so it combined the best of both worlds.

[vadersfist]

I didn't even know that a MOTU game even existed till I seen this thread.

[Mr. Shokoti]

I've played it for both, but as a kid it was only on the Atari. I only knew one kid that had an Intellivision (his parents were very well-off financially) but everyone on the block had a 2600/VCS and MOTU: POHM was one of those titles that everybody seemed to have, right along with Pac-Man and Pitfall.

The best version, if you can find it, was the unreleased Colecovision edition. It played as smooth as the Atari version but had the better graphics of the Intellivision edition, so it combined the best of both worlds.

My parents were far from rich, but we had Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Intellivision, Vectrix, & Pong(although that console was before I was born) since my Dad was into video games. I do remember getting mad at him since he'd usually make me wait to get a game on Intellivision since its graphics were better than the 2600. I never even knew Mattel was behind that system until years later. I also wish I had a Colecovision as well. I went from Atari & Intellivision to Nintendo while my Dad skipped a generation & got a Sega Genesis.

[Dr_SLUMP]

I've never played a MOTU game back in the day because nothing was released for the NES

MOTU and ThunderCats were two titles I always waited for and kept asking at toy stores if they ever were released for the Nintendo... none really knew.

[Grimbot]

I've played only The Iearth stone on Commodore 64.

[Night Stalker]

My parents were far from rich, but we had Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Intellivision, Vectrix, & Pong(although that console was before I was born) since my Dad was into video games. I do remember getting mad at him since he'd usually make me wait to get a game on Intellivision since its graphics were better than the 2600. I never even knew Mattel was behind that system until years later. I also wish I had a Colecovision as well. I went from Atari & Intellivision to Nintendo while my Dad skipped a generation & got a Sega Genesis.

We had a 2600, and I remember having a 5200 but I don't recall it ever working; I'm thinking that the 5200 was a hand-me-down from some family member that was bored with it. I used to put Mrs. Pac Man in and watch the title screen, wishing I could play it. I still have my original Vectrex, too- knowing how cheap my dad was and the age I was that Christmas, it had to have been a clearance item marked down to nearly nothing.

The Intellivision and the Colecovision were like the Cadillacs of the gaming realm, and I only knew one kid that had the INTV and one other kid that had Colecovision. I remember riding the bus home one day and everyone was buzzing because so-and-so had "COLECO- With Donkey Kong!!!!!!!!"

But then a couple of Christmases later I got the NES, along with every other kid in America, and spent the next five years glued to the TV. Now that I'm a grown-up I've gone back and collected pretty much every cartridge-based console made from the 70's-2002. I'm mainly missing a Bally Astro/Videocade, Entex Adventurevision and a VC 4000.