greenmedic88 said:
It looks like one is labeled "Intellivision" and the other is labeled "Intellivision II" which suggests that the difference was more than just cosmetic. Maybe they were the same, but not much point in checking since Intellivision didn't "invent" the redesigned/refreshed console. The Magnavox Odyssey from the early 70s pre-dates the Intellivision and it had its share of hardware revisions as well. |
It was in fact called the Intellivision II, but it was just a redesign; remember the very notion of a next generation console didn't really come into being till the Genesis, so Matel didn't see adding a II to the end as having the same implications you are reading into it.
And while I kind of expected that some first gen system did this years before Matel, I didn't feel inclined to look it up.
(If you are wondering why I even posted it in the first place if I thought that it probably wasn't the first, I think it was just the nostalgia of being an Intellivision fanboy and having a chance to stick it to Atari. Intellivision, and later Colecovision, were to Atari as GC and XB were to PS2; and just as GC and XB fanboys hated PS2 getting credit where it didn't deserve it, so too did Intellivision fans.)
