After over a year of play testing and preparation, Mattel Electronics launches the first major competitor to the market-dominating Atari VCS video game console: Intellivision (short for “Intelligent Television”). Boasting superior graphics and a library of the first-ever licensed sports titles (though licensed by various pro sports leagues, rather than by specific teams or individuals), Intellivision is well-poised to enter a market where sports games are all-important. 
Mattel Electronics releases the Space Battle cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system. Early in its development cycle, this game was intended to be a licensed tie-in to Battlestar Galactica.
Mattel Electronics releases the Major League Baseball cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Checkers cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Auto Racing cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the PBA Bowling cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Snafu cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Space Armada cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Astrosmash cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Star Strike cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Night Stalker cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, which quickly becomes one of the signature original games for the system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Frog Bog cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Lock ‘n’ Chase cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, based on the Data East arcade game of the same name.
Mattel Electronics releases the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, licensed from TSR.
Coleco releases the Donkey Kong cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, a home version of the hit arcade game.
Mattel Electronics releases the Tron Deadly Discs cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, based on the movie Tron. A version of this game is also released by Mattel’s M Network imprint for the Atari 2600.
Mattel Electronics releases the Tron Maze-a-Tron cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, based on elements of the movie Tron.
Imagic releases the Demon Attack cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, drawing a lawsuit from Atari over its similarities to Phoenix, an arcade game which Atari has licensed for home console ports.
Imagic releases one of its first games for the Mattel Intellivision home video game console, Rick Levine’s Microsurgeon. With impressive graphics, the game puts players in the bloodstream of sick patient, where they must blast diseased cells with lasers to save the patient. Designed solely for Intellivision, Microsurgeon is a game that Imagic does not plan to port to the Atari 2600.
Imagic releases the Atlantis cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Activision releases the Beauty & The Beast cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, a direct competitor for Coleco’s arcade port Donkey Kong.
Mattel Electronics releases the Shark! Shark! cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Imagic releases the Dragonfire cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Tron Solar Sailer cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, the third and final Intellivision game based on Tron, and the only one to require use of the Intellivoice voice module.
Activision releases Dracula for the Intellivision home video game system, one of numerous Imagic titles exclusive to that system.
Activision releases the Happy Trails cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system.
Mattel Electronics releases the Burgertime cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, a home version of the Data East arcade game. The game gets a surprising nationwide marketing push, benefiting from a realignment of priorities behind the scenes at Mattel.
Atarisoft, an Atari imprint that ports the company’s games (or licensed properties) to competitors’ hardware, reveals its port of Pac-Man for the Intellivision at the 1983 summer Consumer Electronics Show. The game proves to be a minor hit closer to Christmas.
Mattel Electronics releases the Loco Motion cartridge for the Intellivision home video game system, based on the Konami arcade game of the same name.
Intellivision Productions (a collective of programmers and designers who created the games for the iconic ’80s video game console) releases the album Intellivision In Hi-Fi at Classic Gaming Expo 2002, containing recordings of some of the system’s signature musical moments, and new renditions of some of the games’ musical themes.