Spectravideo

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Spectravideo International Limited

Industry	Computer hardware Video games
Founded	United States, 1981
Defunct	1988
Key people	Harry Fox Alex Weiss
Products	SV-318 SV-328 SVI-728 SVI-738 SVI-838 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.