21 Facts About Intellivision II

Intellivision II is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979.

Intellivision II was developed at Mattel in Hawthorne, California along with the Mattel Electronics line of handheld electronic games.

The Intellivision II was listed in the nationally distributed JCPenney Christmas 1979 catalog along with seven cartridges.

GTE Sylvania Intellivision II consoles were produced along with Mattel's, differing only by the brand name.

In Japan, Intellivision II consoles were branded by Bandai in 1982, and in Brazil there were Digimed and Digiplay consoles manufactured by Sharp in 1983.

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Once the Intellivision II project became successful, software development was brought in-house.

The original five members of that Intellivision II team were Mike Minkoff, Rick Levine, John Sohl, Don Daglow, and manager Gabriel Baum.

The Intellivision II was not marketed as a toy; as such, games such as Sea Battle and B-17 Bomber are not made in the pick-up-and-play format like arcade games.

Intellivision II was designed as a modular home computer, so from the beginning, its packaging, promotional materials, and television commercials, promised the addition of a forthcoming accessory called the Keyboard Component.

The Intellivision II was initially released without a pack-in game but was later packaged with BurgerTime in the United States and Lock'N'Chase in Canada.

Users of the original Intellivision II missed the ability to find keypad buttons by the tactile feel of the original controller bubble keypad.

The original Intellivision II required a hardware modification, a service provided by Mattel, to work with the System Changer.

The price of the Intellivision II was lowered to, and Mattel Electronics was to be a software company.

INTV Corporation did publish 21 new Intellivision II cartridges bringing the Intellivision II library to a total of 124 cartridges plus one compilation cartridge.

Together they have over 100 Intellivision II games including never before released King of the Mountain, Takeover, Robot Rubble, League of Light, and others.

Intellivision II Rocks includes Intellivision II games made by Activision and Imagic.

Also in 1997 Intellivision II Productions announced they would sell development tools allowing customers to program their own Intellivision II games.

In 2005 Intellivision II Productions announced that new Intellivision II cartridges were to be produced.

Previously, in 2000, Intellivision II Productions did release new cartridges for the Atari 2600 and Colecovision.

Intellivision II games were first adapted to mobile phones and published by THQ Wireless in 2001.

Intellivision II Productions has been renamed Blue Sky Rangers Inc and their video game intellectual property has been transferred to Intellivision II Entertainment.