Blue Sky Rangers

The Blue Sky Rangers is a group of Intellivision game programmers who previously worked for Mattel in the early 1980s.

The original five members of that Intellivision team were manager Gabriel Baum, Don Daglow, Rick Levine, Mike Minkoff and John Sohl.

To keep these and later programmers (the Mattel team peaked at 110 people in 1983) from being hired away by rival Atari, their identity and work location was kept a closely guarded secret.

This was based on the programming group's "Blue Sky Meetings," which were a series of brainstorming sessions for new game ideas.

Shark!, two prominent Intellivision titles, were not included in the sale, as the two properties were already sold to BBG Entertainment GmbH in the preceding year.