What is an Intellivision?

The Mattel Intellivision is a home video game console that was released in 1979 by Mattel Electronics, makers of Barbie, Hot Wheels, and much more. 

Throughout the 1980's it was a direct competitor of the Atari 2600 and Colecovision and was a moderate success worldwide. Games for the console were still being released into the early 1990's via mail-in orders. A total of over 3 million Intellivision consoles were reportedly sold worldwide.

The Blue Sky Rangers website was launched in 1995 by former Mattel employee, Keith Robinson and team. Starting the late 1990's many Intellivision products were released, including PC compilations, LCD handhelds, compilations on Playstation 2, Xbox, Gamecube and Nintendo DS and the Intellivision Flashback in the 2014.

The Intellivision IP was sold to an investor group named Intellivision entertainment in 2018 in an attempt to revive the Intellivision brand with a new console in the early 2020's but ultimately failed due to mismanagement and other issues with 5 years of no console release. The Intellivision Amico will remain hardware vaporware with no actual plans for a release with the company in dire straits after dropping the Intellivision branding and changing names to Happy Home Games. 

The Mattel Intellivision has had a very active aftermarket gaming scene with new homebrew games being released each year by many publishers. The first homebrews being released in the early 2000's and then taking off in the 2010's with Intelligentvision and Elektronite and others soon following. These new Intellivision game releases are keeping the Mattel Intellivision legacy alive all the way to 2025 and beyond!

In 2024 the recently revived Atari purchased nearly all Intellivision IP from Intellivision Entertainment and a new console will release in 2025 named Intellivision Sprint.