TV Powww

There is video evidence for the following Fairchild Channel F games being played on TV Powww:

• Baseball[4]
• Bowling[4]
• Quadra-Doodle (used as a background)[4]
• Shooting Gallery[4]

Kempner marketing documentation also supports the following games being used:

• Dodge' It[5]
• Maze[5]
• Tic-Tac-Toe[5]

There is video evidence for the following Intellivision games being played on TV Powww:

• Football[6]
• Slots[7]
• Soccer[8]
• Single player Space Battle[9]
• Two player Space Battle[10]

Kempner marketing documentation and Marvin Kempner's autobiography suggest the following games were available or under development:

• Astrosmash[2][11][12]
• Baseball[13]
• Basketball[11][13]
• Boxing[11][12]
• Frog Bog[11]
• Horse Racing[11]
• Skiing[2][12]
• Space Hawk[11]
• Word Fun - Word Rockets[2][11][12][13]
• Unspecified Intellivoice games[11]

The Intellivision title Sharp Shot[14] reportedly comprised four TV Powww games, implying that the simplified versions of the following titles found on this cartridge were also available to TV Powww customers:

• Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
• Sea Battle

One notable version of TV Powww was used by New York based television station WPIX, called TV-Pixxx (a play on the station's call letters). Hosted by station staff announcer Ralph Lowenstein, it was aired during the traditional weekday afternoon slot of children's TV as an interlude. Participants would be called at home to play a videogame that appeared on their screen.[1]

Participants interacted with the game by saying the word "Pix" to perform game-related actions. Prizes included T-shirts and $10 U.S. savings bonds. They could double their prize or win a bonus prize (such as advance tickets to see upcoming films) by guessing a "Magic Word" (originally common everyday words, later in the last two years one of the 50 U.S. states). For a chance at playing, children could send a postcard with their name, address, and phone number to TV Pixxx.

WPIX's program lasted until 1982; for many New York viewers, TV Pixxx was their first glimpse of the Intellivision home game system.[2]

In the Beastie Boys Book, Michael Diamond claimed to be a regular viewer of the program, but was never picked to play the game, nor saw anyone actually win.

Switchback aired on CBC Television station CBRT in Calgary, Alberta in 1985, also including Intellivision games.

Zap aired in the mornings from 1978 to 1979 on Cleveland, Ohio NBC station WKYC which had a feature similar to TV Powww.

In the early 1980s, Golden West Network (GWN) had a version called TV Powww (or possibly TV Pow), hosted by Chris Mills. There was a spaceship game, a boxing game and a soccer/football game.

A basic version of Space Invaders was broadcast daily after school hours in Rockhampton, north-east coast of Australia during the early 1980s. Children would yell "Pow!" over the telephone, with the host pressing the fire button in the studio. Reaction time varied with the mood of the host. The game was often chaotic, with contestant rapid firing, and sync abandoned when the host was unable to keep up.

The game premiered on SBT in August 1984 and its first host was Paulo Barboza. Shortly thereafter, other hosts like Tânia Alves, Mara Maravilha, Luís Ricardo, Sérgio Mallandro, Gugu Liberato and Christina Rocha presented the game. TV Powww! became a segment of the Bozo show in 1986 and continued until 1989.

The game had a 12 episode run as part of the BBC Saturday morning children's show Get Set For Summer[16] between April 1982[17] and July 1982.[18]

In 1982 there was a variation of Tv Powww called Telectronico hosted by Reynaldo More. [ RTI TV ] Children could participate by sending coupons from newspaper and waiting for the right phone call. Show took place Monday to Friday at 5:30 p.m.