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January 9, 1981

Toy company Hasbro, Inc. will going to rival Mattel by announcing a video game console "Mindvision", which featured a library of 20 titles, excepted to ship in October 1981 and its unveiled by the Winter CES. It's accompanying 20 titles will be arcade games, sports games, a space shooter and a platformer, as well as movie and TV licenses, educational games, games based on comic books and games based on Hasbro's toys.

One of these properties will be Snoopy, Scooby-Doo, Mr. Potato Head, and Romper Room, both are popular toy properties from Hasbro. Two of these (Snoopy and Scooby-Doo) were licensed properties, We can except that both properties will turn into video games and it will be released for the Hasbrovision, and it may ship and it may challenge with rivals Mattel Electronics and Atari, Inc. and we done that with Intellivision and Atari VCS, both will be popular.

Hasbro was the second world largest toy company ever. Stephen D. Hassefeld said that Hasbro will be entering the video game industry. We can accomplish those properties and original games for the upcoming Mindvision may turn into toys by 1982. It will come with a controller with an accompanying joystick, and a numeric keypad. They will be planned expansion modules with a wheel and two joysticks. The next generation will be with us.

The idea of Hasbrovision is to challenge players with 20 titles will be launched and direct ports of arcade titles were planned. Original titles will be sports games, space shooters, platformers, educational games and licensing properties. We had tons of game consoles. Mattel had previously did the Intellivision and now Hasbro does it with the Mindvision, which gained more control and power than the Intellivision. Atari was excepting to ship the Cosmos by September.

But as much as you can a game console way easy to see with a idea of the Mindvision. Excepted by next year will be ports of home computer titles that was not seen on Atari VCS or Intellivision, those popular consoles. As for now, it's time to make Hasbrovision super with a big black case, and a big black box cover art.

(This is the POD, IOTL Hasbro never made the console)
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