Editing Intellivision (section)

{{Short description|Home video game console}}
{{About|the video game console released in 1979|the console announced in 2018|Intellivision Amico}}
{{Infobox information appliance
| name = Intellivision
| title = 
| aka = 
| logo = [[File:Intellivision-logo.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| image = Intellivision-Console-Set.png
| caption = First model Intellivision (1979)
| developer = 
| manufacturer = {{ubl|[[Mattel|Mattel Electronics]] (1979–1984)|INTV Corporation (1984–1990)}}

| family = 
| type = [[Home video game console]]
| generation = [[Second generation of video game consoles|Second]]
| releasedate = {{video game release|NA|1979<ref name="atariarch" /><ref name="gamespy"/><ref name=askhal1/><ref name=timeline/>|UK|1981<ref name="cvg_001">{{cite magazine|url=https://archive.org/details/cvg-magazine-001|magazine=Computer and Video Games |title=Close Encounters of a Hazardous Kind |issue=1|date=November 1, 1981|page=71|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>{{failed verification|reason=Reviews a game for the Intellivision but doesn't mention the system's launch|date=January 2022}}|ZA|1982|DE|1982|FRA|1982<ref name="vgworld">{{cite book|last1=Wolf|first1=Mark J. P.|title=Video Games Around the World|date=2015|publisher=MIT Press|isbn=978-0-262-52716-3|page=179|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pZb5CAAAQBAJ|access-date=2017-09-01|archive-date=2023-02-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209134104/https://books.google.com/books?id=pZb5CAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>|JP|1982<ref name="vglibrary_intelli">{{cite web|url=http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg70-intelli.htm#page=reviews|title=Home Page|website=Video Game Console Library|access-date=2017-03-22|archive-date=2019-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190815175304/http://www.videogameconsolelibrary.com/pg70-intelli.htm#page=reviews|url-status=live}}</ref>|BR|1983<ref name=brasil_historia>[http://www.intellivisionbrasil.com.br/Menu_Historia.htm#brasil "Intellivision Historia Brasil"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112010915/http://www.intellivisionbrasil.com.br/Menu_Historia.htm#brasil |date=2020-11-12 }} intellivisionbrasil.com.br</ref>}}
| lifespan = {{start date|1979}}—{{end date|1990}}
| price = {{ubl|{{USD|275}}<ref name="tvdigest791015">{{cite news |title=Television Digest |url=https://www.atariarchive.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Weekly-Television-Digest-1979-10-15.png |access-date=25 October 2020 |date=1979-10-15}}</ref>|{{CAD|385}}|{{GBP|199}}<ref name="cvg_001" />|[[Deutsche Mark|DM]]499|[[French franc|₣]]2000<ref name="tilt82">{{cite journal |last1=Mason |first1=Nicole |title=Intellivision: Une Véritable Centrale de Jeux |journal=Tilt Jeux Électroniques |date=1982-09-01 |volume=1 |issue=1 |page=57 |url=http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=28&num=9&album=oui |access-date=2018-10-03 |archive-date=2018-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181003101113/http://www.abandonware-magazines.org/affiche_mag.php?mag=28&num=9&album=oui |url-status=live }}</ref>|{{JPY|49800}}<ref name="vglibrary_intelli"/>}}
| discontinued = {{End date|1990}}<ref name="gamespy"/><ref name=askhal1/><ref name=timeline/><ref>{{cite book |last=Forster |first=Winnie |author-link=Winnie Forster |title=The encyclopedia of consoles, handhelds & home computers 1972–2005 |year=2005 |publisher=GAMEPLAN |isbn=3-00-015359-4|page=42}}</ref>
| unitssold = > 3.75 million (1980–83)<ref name="TCW" /><ref name="csmonitor" /><ref name="vgu_83oct" /><ref name = nyt84/>
| unitsshipped = 
| os = 
| power = 
| soc = 
| cpu = [[General Instrument CP1600|GI CP1610]]
| memory = 1K RAM, 6K ROM
| storage = 
| media = [[ROM cartridge]]
| display = Standard TV, 159×96 resolution, 16 color palette
| graphics = [[Standard Television Interface Chip]] (STIC)
| sound = [[General Instrument AY-3-8910|GI AY-3-8914]] (three-channels, one noise generator)
| input = 
| controllers = 
| camera = 
| touchpad = 
| connectivity = 
| platform = 
| service = [[PlayCable]]
| dimensions = 
| weight = 
| compatibility = 
| predecessor = 
| successor = 
| related = 
| website = 
| topgame = {{ubl|''Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack'' 1.939 million|''[[Baseball (Intellivision video game)|Major League Baseball]]'' 1.085 million<ref name=Lives/><ref name = askhal1>{{cite web |url=http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/people/askhal/askhal.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170728023443/http://www.intellivisionlives.com/bluesky/people/askhal/askhal.html |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2017-07-28 |title=Ask Hal: Frequently Asked Questions to the Blue Sky Rangers |publisher=Intellivision Productions |access-date=November 3, 2008}}</ref><ref name="gamespy">{{cite web|url=http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ConsoleMuseum.Detail&id=17&game=9 |title=Mattel Intellivision — 1980–1984 |work=ClassicGaming |publisher=IGN |access-date=May 16, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080623232114/http://classicgaming.gamespy.com/View.php?view=ConsoleMuseum.Detail&id=17&game=9 |archive-date=June 23, 2008 }}</ref> {{small|(as of June 1983)}}}}
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The '''Intellivision''' (a portmanteau of intelligent television) is a [[home video game console]] released by [[Mattel|Mattel Electronics]] in 1979. It distinguished itself from competitors with more realistic sports and strategic games.<ref name="video_198007" /> By 1981, Mattel Electronics had close to 20% of the domestic video game market, selling more than 3.75 million consoles and 20 million cartridges through 1983.<ref name="TCW" /><ref name="csmonitor" /><ref name="vgu_83oct" /><ref name = nyt84/><ref name="Lives" /> At its peak Mattel Electronics had about 1800 employees in several countries, including 110 videogame developers.<ref name = nyt84/> In 1984, Mattel sold its video game assets to a former Mattel Electronics executive and investors, eventually becoming INTV Corporation. Game development ran from 1978 to 1990, when the Intellivision was discontinued.

In 2009, [[IGN]] ranked the Intellivision No. 14 on their list of the greatest video game consoles of all time.<ref>[https://www.ign.com/top-25-consoles/14.html Top 25 Videogame Consoles of All Time: Intellivision is number 14] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200125125828/https://www.ign.com/top-25-consoles/14.html |date=2020-01-25 }}, IGN. Retrieved November 2, 2011.</ref>