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Keyboard Component ('Blue Whale')

'Blue Whale' · Mattel · 1981

Released1981
Typeadd-on
RarityEpic
Whywe don’t factor in prices yet: we’re watching the market 1 days, for games and accessories you need 30; units produced 4,000 - Epic

The Intellivision (a portmanteau of "intelligent television") is a home video game console released by Mattel Electronics in 1979. It distinguished itself from competitors with more realistic sports and strategic games. 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. At its peak, Mattel Electronics had about 1,800 employees in several countries, including 110 videogame developers. In 1984, Mattel sold its video game assets to a former Mattel Electronics executive and investors, eventually becoming INTV Corporation.

Describe the series or family, not just this item. For now, in English only. Source: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

How to tell them apart

Full keyboard unit with built-in tape drive and microphone.

Details from sources

Cancelled August 1982 after FTC scrutiny; ~4,000 units manufactured before cancellation (estimate, no primary citation named in the source article); buyback offered.

Data source: en.wikipedia.org

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