This is a list of all officially released games for the Mattel Intellivision with information if the game was released in NTSC and/or PAL countries. Not included is the software for the Keyboard Component computer add-on that was only test-marketed in some regions of the United States.
Intellivision games are not region-coded in any way, so NTSC games will run on PAL machines and vice versa. In fact, there isn’t even a difference between carts sold in NTSC and PAL countries. The only differences are the language(s) of the manuals and in most cases the packaging. Mattel’s regular NTSC releases have screen shots and a game description in English on the back side of the boxes. Mattel’s regular PAL releases have only screen shots on the back side of the boxes (without description), and they have two small diagonal slots that held two cornes of the localized manuals – so when the games sat (shrinkwrapped) on the store shelves, you could see the titles of the manuals in your language on the back side of the boxes.
Anyway, I wanted to compile a complete list that shows which titles were sold in NTSC countries and which were sold in PAL countries.
The NTSC part was pretty easy, as probably the only two games that were not sold in NTSC countries are Super Cobra and Tutankham, both by Parker.
The PAL part is much harder, as no PAL lists exist so far (well in fact this is the reason why I generated this list). To my knowledge the following games were NOT sold in PAL countries: The Mattel games that need the Intellivoice interface, all games by Atarisoft, Dextell, Interphase and INTV.
There might still be errors in the list. If you can help us, please discuss this list in the corresponding thread in our Intellivision forum or contact me via the contact form. Thanks in advance!
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Footnotes:
1) The four games for the IntelliVoice add-on were sold in Europe too, but those were probably no official releases for the PAL market by Mattel, but grey imports. Norman Pelz for example has a Space Spartans with additional typewritten German instructions, bought in a Quelle department store. Any additional info on the IntelliVoice games in Europe are welcome! B-17 Bomber was not sold in Germany due to the World War II scenario.
Addendum: The typewritten German instructions were really made by Mattel. In late 1983, when the video game crash shook the USA, Mattel no longer made special European versions of their games, but took the US versions and added cheap German instructions. The same probably happened in other European countries. (Thanks to Michael Lünzer)
2) I have the two Dextell games with multilingual manual in English, French and Italian, so the games must have been sold in Europe. Would be interesting to know if other European language versions of the manuals exist.
3) Motocross and The Dreadnought Factor are the only two games that will not work on PAL consoles, due to bankswitching problems (a 50/60 Hz issue). Intellivision Inc corrected that in the Motocross game, so this version of Motocross wil play on PAL machines too. The Mattel version of Motocross will not play on PAL machines. (Thanks to Michael Lünzer)