Reversi was a game for the
Intellivision console,
based upon the board game of the same
name. Atari had already licenced and made a game by the name of "
Othello", so Mattel decided to try and keep up with them by providing the same
game. After some
research, it was discovered that Reversi was not trademarked, so Mattel did that. The game is in the
public domain, so there was no
legal tape in using the actual
rules and such.
It was produced by
Greg Favor of
APh Technical Consulting, and was marketed as a part of the Intellivision's
Strategy Network, and was released as a part of the
Intellivision Lives! cdrom.