Hypnotic Lights cover art

Hypnotic Lights

[Unreleased 1983] 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…

1 February 1998

Hypnotic Lights is a puzzle, released 1 February 1998 on Intellivision.

Verified Sources: IGDB

What Hypnotic Lights is

Hypnotic Lights was released in 1998. It is available on Intellivision only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

[Unreleased 1983] 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…
Description from the publisher · source

What it launched against

Hypnotic Lights launched on 1 February 1998, within three weeks of Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes and Resident Evil 2.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 2 (1998), Xenogears, Marvel vs. Capcom: Clash of Super Heroes, Resident Evil 2.

Quick answers

Hypnotic Lights — frequently asked questions

When did Hypnotic Lights come out?
Hypnotic Lights was released on 1 February 1998 for Intellivision.

If you like this

Games like Hypnotic Lights

See all