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Odyssey Game System (2021)
- causi 4y agoMan I'd love a Ken Shirriff breakdown of the Odyssey and its game cards.
- dingosity 4y agoThx for posting this. I was a young kid when the Odyssey came out, but I have a vague memory of really wanting to rip it apart and figure out what was inside (foreshadowing a career in engineering; surprising I don't do more reverse engineering.) Our family resisted buying the Odyssey (despite the kids begging the parents) or the Fairchild F or Atari Pong. I think my dad broke down when he discovered there was a blackjack cartridge for the VCS.
- SQL2219 4y ago1972 Magnavox Odyssey promotional film https://youtu.be/jLGBtkKPj2U https://youtu.be/jLGBtkKPj2U
- ArtWomb 4y agoRalph Baer. A name every american schoolkid should know, conceived of the home console back in 1951! I recall with Quest for the Rings circa 1981, you had to initially purchase it at a Magnavox branded retail outlet with like the showroom full of jumbo cathode rays ;) https://habr.com/ru/company/edison/blog/278447/ https://habr.com/ru/company/edison/blog/278447/ (russian language / русский язык)
- orblivion 4y agoI'm occasionally surprised by phrases that turn out to be older than I thought. "Do your own thing" seems rather modern to me.
- NelsonMinar 4y agoWow that's terrific! Those controllers are amazing. Also I'd forgotten about screen overlays.
- jawngee 4y agoI had the Odyssey2 as a kid and hated it, mostly because it wasn't an Atari 2600 (I was five or six at the time). I do remember the game Quest for the Rings very fondly though.
- royjacobs 4y agoPickaxe Pete wasn't too shabby, either.
- madmoose 4y agoWe had a lot of fun with Monkeyshines.
- utexaspunk 4y agoPlayed way too much Pickaxe Pete as a kid. I can still hear that sound when he goes through the doors to another level. K.C. Munchkin was pretty cool, too- even had a level editor!
- tssva 4y agoI had one friend with an Odyssey2 and everyone felt bad for him. A couple of my friends had Intellivisions which were ok but they had limited people to trade cartridges with. Mike had a Colecovision. Everyone wanted to be Mike's friend. The rest of us had Atari 2600s.
- jbenner-radham 4y agoHad one as a kid too. It was my intro to video games so I've got fond memories of it. It's funny I had a lot of fun with the games but didn't realize until years later that a lot of the games we had were just clones of more popular games.
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- JKCalhoun 4y agoSaw an Odyssey in a closed shop window one evening back in the mid 70's. 11-year-old me knew instantly that I was looking at the future. (Did not know that a part of my future career was also being suggested to me.) The name told you out was the future (think, "2001, A Space Odyssey") as well as that oh-so-futuristic font on the packaging. A year or two later, with the family at a friend-of-the-family's place and they had this new video-game machine hooked up to their TV. I think ti was the first time I played a video game. I was trying to determine which the machine they had (I distinctly remember the odd controller shape). It turns out it was a "Fairchild Channel F" [1] machine. Looks like that may have been the first machine with cartridges. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_Channel_F