Mattel Intellivision II

A picture of the Mattel Intellivision II

Back in 1979, the toy company Mattel released the Intellivision, a competitor to the insanely successful Atari 2600. Its game library mainly consisted of sports and strategic games. As you'll no doubt guess, it was nowhere near as successful as its competitor. Around 1983, Mattel release the Intellivision II, a smaller and cheaper redesigned version of the Intellivision. 1983 also happened to be when the 1983 video game crash happened, which did not help Mattel's case at all.