Atari’s resurrecting the Intellivision, one of its biggest competitors in the ‘80s

The Intellivision Sprint features the aforesaid unsocial controllers arsenic the original, but they’re present wireless and rechargeable. | Image: Atari

Atari has announced yet different retro console revival, but this clip it’s launching hardware from an aged competitor.

Atari and Plaion, a institution that develops, publishes, and distributes games, person collaborated connected the new Intellivision Sprint that blends ‘80s console aesthetics with modern gaming conveniences. It’s a caller instrumentality connected Mattel’s Intellivision, which initially went head-to-head with the Atari 2600 erstwhile it was released successful 1979.

The Sprint looks a batch similar the archetypal Intellivision with a golden and achromatic lawsuit and a wood-grain sheet connected the front, but determination are a batch less cables. It connects to a TV utilizing a azygous HDMI cable, and portion it inactive includes 2 controllers featuring dials and fig pads alternatively of joysticks, they’re some wireless and complaint erstwhile docked to the console.

The Sprint has the archetypal Intellivision’s fig pad overlays, but with caller designs and updated artwork to marque it easier to cognize what buttons you request to property to play antithetic games. It comes with 45 built-in titles, including classics similar Boulder Dash and Astrosmash, positive a postulation of sports games that helped popularize the archetypal mentation of the console. It lacks enactment for cartridges, but there’s USB-A ports that tin beryllium utilized to play further titles oregon to link archetypal Intellivision controllers with an adapter.

It’s disposable for preorder starting contiguous for $149.99 and is expected to vessel connected December 5th, 2025.