For those of you too young to remember...
Intellivision was the first
best, most sophisticated intelligent video game system back in the late 70s.....it was by Mattel. Hence Intellivision. Atari was big...Pong etc...but intellivsion blew them away...
So...you'd think....coincidences being what they are...Atari/Intellivision...hmmm, makes sense.
I loved the baseball, golf, horse racing and the auto racing game. Here's a link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellivision
"Development of the console began in 1978, less than a year after the introduction of its main competitor, the Atari 2600. " Busted !!! hahahahaaa