The Intellivision - meaning 'intelligent television', was Matel's answer
to the Atari 2600. Originally retailing at $299, approximately 3 million Intellivisions were eventually sold.
Sold by Sears. Featured detachable hand controllers.
Sold by Radio Shack. This was similar to the original Intellivision but with the gold plates replaced with more wood trim.
GTE stores modified the labelling of the power and reset switches.
Mattel phased out the original master component.
Intellivision II was restyled in light grey. It featured detachable hand controllers and an on/off light.
a.k.a. INTV Super Pro System or INTV Master System.
The INTV Corporation sold these after liquidating. Like the original Intellivision but with an on off light.
System Changer module that enables Atari 2600 cart to be played on Intellivision 2. (No lawsuit appeared)
The infamous Keyboard. Several keyboard components were made
available to selected stores and offered by mail to consumers who complained.
The first Intellivision game programmed was Major League Baseball by David Rolfe in 1978.
Chess, which included RAM in the cartridge, was the most expensive Intellivision cartridge.
There are
115 games in total. They were released by:
- Mattel 51
- INTV Corp. 21
- Activision 7
- Atari 3
- Coleco 8
- Dextell 2
- Imagic 14
- Interphase 2
- Parker Brothers 6
- Sega 1
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