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Between 1977 and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 early 1984]], the Mattel Electronics division produced handheld electronic games, the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} console and the Aquarius computer. Mattel's association with video games continued with their distribution of the European and Canadian models of the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem and the now-infamous Power Glove accessory.

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Between 1977 and [[UsefulNotes/TheGreatVideoGameCrashOf1983 early 1984]], the Mattel Electronics division produced handheld electronic games, the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} Platform/{{Intellivision}} console and the Aquarius computer. Mattel's association with video games continued with their distribution of the European and Canadian models of the UsefulNotes/NintendoEntertainmentSystem Platform/NintendoEntertainmentSystem and the now-infamous Power Glove accessory.



In 2006, Mattel attempted to re-enter the console market with the UsefulNotes/{{Hyperscan}}. However, it had a questionable CPU and GPU (an off-brand [=SoC=] from Sunplus, a notoriously shady semiconductor company, with an equally obscure architecture called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%2Bcore S+Core]][[note]]Sunplus is notorious for not disclosing details about their architectures, besides violating the GPL when they made a jerry-rigged fork of GCC with support for their [=CPUs=].[[/note]]). The RAM- 16MB of it- was in line with other sixth generation consoles like the [[UsefulNotes/{{SegaDreamcast}} Dreamcast]] and UsefulNotes/PlayStation2. But by then the industry had shifted to the ''seventh generation''. This left it severely underpowered and at a disadvantage- which, ironically, was the very same problem that plagued the Intellivision. Also, the selection of games was small, and they tended to be poorly programmed and have LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading (not helped by the fact that they sourced a really slow CD drive), which did not sit well with both the target and periphery demographic. All these problems led Mattel to call the Hyperscan a flop and leave the market again the next year.

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In 2006, Mattel attempted to re-enter the console market with the UsefulNotes/{{Hyperscan}}.Platform/{{Hyperscan}}. However, it had a questionable CPU and GPU (an off-brand [=SoC=] from Sunplus, a notoriously shady semiconductor company, with an equally obscure architecture called [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%2Bcore S+Core]][[note]]Sunplus is notorious for not disclosing details about their architectures, besides violating the GPL when they made a jerry-rigged fork of GCC with support for their [=CPUs=].[[/note]]). The RAM- 16MB of it- was in line with other sixth generation consoles like the [[UsefulNotes/{{SegaDreamcast}} [[Platform/{{SegaDreamcast}} Dreamcast]] and UsefulNotes/PlayStation2.Platform/PlayStation2. But by then the industry had shifted to the ''seventh generation''. This left it severely underpowered and at a disadvantage- which, ironically, was the very same problem that plagued the Intellivision. Also, the selection of games was small, and they tended to be poorly programmed and have LoadsAndLoadsOfLoading (not helped by the fact that they sourced a really slow CD drive), which did not sit well with both the target and periphery demographic. All these problems led Mattel to call the Hyperscan a flop and leave the market again the next year.



In early 2016, [[http://www.inc.com/lindsay-blakely/mattel-buys-fuhu-out-of-bankruptcy-for-$215-million.html Mattel bought Fuhu Inc]]--the company that makes the ''Nabi'' line of kids and family-oriented tablets--when said company filed for bankruptcy, showing that Mattel's interest in the computing market hasn't waned one bit despite the failure of the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} and UsefulNotes/HyperScan, though it too ran on borrowed time and silently wound down a few years later, closing down its Facebook and Twitter pages and announcing through email that they will be shuttering all Nabi online services on March 2019, effectively killing off the children's smart device line.

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In early 2016, [[http://www.inc.com/lindsay-blakely/mattel-buys-fuhu-out-of-bankruptcy-for-$215-million.html Mattel bought Fuhu Inc]]--the company that makes the ''Nabi'' line of kids and family-oriented tablets--when said company filed for bankruptcy, showing that Mattel's interest in the computing market hasn't waned one bit despite the failure of the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} Platform/{{Intellivision}} and UsefulNotes/HyperScan, Platform/HyperScan, though it too ran on borrowed time and silently wound down a few years later, closing down its Facebook and Twitter pages and announcing through email that they will be shuttering all Nabi online services on March 2019, effectively killing off the children's smart device line.



* UsefulNotes/HyperScan
* UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}}

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*** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2''

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*** ''WesternAnimation/Frozen2''''WesternAnimation/FrozenII''

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