And btw: AtariBuff and manopac are maniac shopping bag collectors!!!

There is nothing someone can not collect.

I own a few that interact with my hobbies, like Commodore and Amiga bags.

And nice comic designs like Akira, Disney characters.

…and the next ones…

The german service manual, front page.

Index page. Take a look at the date at the bottom of the page, 29.09.82.

A german Intellivision pocket book.

This book is not only filled with Intellivision stuff but also with all game systems that were aviable at the time (1982).

This is because it is a normal videogame book only with a special Intellivision cover and 4 colour pages with Intellivision pictures in the middle of the book.

The normal version of the book is called “Video-Spiele”.

more to follow…

These days is in Berlin the IFA (Internationale Funkausstellung) on exhibition.

It´s one of the, if not the biggest exhibition for all machines that you can plug at home into a socket.

From fridges to high end home cinemas.

In the year 1982 on the IFA the Intellivision was presented to Germany.

Back then Mattel Electronics gave to visitors a nice folder with informations about this new system:

It includes four pages of infos about the company and the system.

Three pages of order forms for resellers.

A 1982 catalog in A4 format + price list.

A collage of articles about the intellivision in german newspapers and magazines.

A Intellivision catalog designed like a tv magazine.

The following pieces maybe later added by the preowner:

A 1983 Intellivision catalog.

A 1983 Intellivision catalog/fold out poster in A4 format.

The first edition of the Colecovision catalog.

A Imagic catalog.

A sheet with the three games from Activision that were released in Germany.

And now a closer look to the pages in the folder: