Spectravideo

Spectravideo International Limited
IndustryComputer hardware
Video games
FoundedUnited States, 1981
Defunct1988
Key people
Harry Fox
Alex Weiss
ProductsSV-318
SV-328
SV-728
SV-738
Joysticks

Spectravideo International Limited (SVI) (printed as Spectra Video, with the space, in game manuals) was an American computer manufacturer and software house. It was originally called SpectraVision, a company founded by Harry Fox in 1981. The company produced video games and other software for the VIC-20 home computer, the Atari 2600 home video game console, and its CompuMate peripheral. Some of their own computers were compatible with the Microsoft MSX or the IBM PC.

Despite their initial success, the company faced financial troubles, and by 1988, operations ceased. Later, a UK-based company bought the Spectravideo brand name from Bondwell in 1988,[1] but this company, known as Logic3, had no connection to the original Spectravideo products and was dissolved in 2016.

  1. ^ "The history of Spectravideo".