A collection of Intellivision hardware and games sold for $4000 in an eBay auction ending midday Sunday, April 20. The collection included a rare working Intellivision Keyboard Component, along with a Master Component, Intellivoice module and a number of games. The private seller only found the collection recently and was unaware of the worth until doing some research on the web.

Only 4,000 of the Keyboard Components were manufactured and those were only sold in limited test markets. When Mattel Electronics decided not to release them nationally, they recalled all the ones sold for a full refund plus free products. Those who wanted to keep their Keyboards had to sign a waiver stating that they understood Mattel would not support the unit nor publish any more software for it. To find a working Keyboard Component (with its original box!) is one of the rarest finds in video game collecting.

While we here at Intellivision Productions, Inc. had nothing to do with the auction, we did send bulletins to our friends on MySpace alerting them to the sale.

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