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| | Magnavox Odyssey² - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The Odyssey² was the first home video game console to introduce what was to become the standard joystick design of the 1970s and 80s: a moderately sized black joystick unit, held in the left hand, with an eight-direction stick that was manipulated with the right hand. | | | The original Odyssey had a number of removable circuit cards that switched between the in-built games, of which there were 10 in Europe and Asia, or 12 in America. | | | The Odyssey² followed in the steps of the Fairchild Channel F and Atari 2600 by being designed to play programmable ROM game cartridges. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey%B2
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| | Magnavox Odyssey 2 - Game-Machines.com |
| | Magnavox, the company who created the Odyssey (the first home gaming system) and basically began the modern gaming market, decided to create a new version of their original system. | | | With time, Atari and Mattel surpassed the Odyssey², but Magnavox stuck with it—they kept programming games to be better for Odyssey² owners. | | | However, when the next generation—cartridge-based systems—took the stage, Magnavox decided to go back and re-design their project. |
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http://www.game-machines.com/consoles/odyssey2.php
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| | Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Magnavox Odyssey2 at Epinions.com |
| | The Odyssey 2 may be best remembered most for it's strong Pac Man-like game; KC Munchkin and the Atari lawsuit that followed. | | | Despite some nice features about the Odyssey 2, the system is just too old now of days to be taking seriously and some of the games (many of them are cloned Atari 2600 games) can really stink up the joint. | | | I barely play it anymore but it's still better than Magnavox's CDi game machine. |
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http://www.epinions.com/content_35667414660
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| | The Dot Eaters - Player 3 Stage 2 - Classic Video Game History |
| | Magnavox must pull their best-selling game off the shelves, and the O2 never recovers from the loss. | | | Their answer is a resdesign of a machine orignally prototyped by the company in 1977, featuring 24 built-in games. | | | Unfortunately, no number of exclamation marks in the titles of the games can prevent the Looming! |
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http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/play3sta2.htm
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| | Odyssey2 |
| | The Odyssey 2 may be best remembered most for it's Pac Man-like game; KC Munchkin and the Atari lawsuit that followed. | | | The Odyssey2 had a unique feature to it, a build in keyboard to play some more educational games and you can even edit some of your different games too thanks to all the options the system as. | | | The Odyssey2 was a great idea for it's time but Atari wasn't going to sit back and let Magnavox take over. |
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http://ryangenno.tripod.com/sub_pages/Odyssey2.htm
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| | Classic Consoles |
| | Odyssey² was released in 1978 to compete with the Atari 2600. | | | But, like everyone else, they saw that cartridge-based video game systems were the wave of the future. | | | Only a few games--Quest for the Rings, The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt, and Conquest of the World, for example--showed the potential of the system by combining complex video game play with board game elements to make truly engaging games. |
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| | Also work on Coleco's ARCADE and COMBAT home games and on Magnavox' Odyssey2 game. | | | He signs guest book for Magnavox Odyssey demo and plays the Odyssey ping-pong game hands-on. | | | I help Coleco get into the video game business in a big way with their Telstar game. |
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http://www.ralphbaer.com/video_game_history.htm
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| | A Guru's World #28: Videogame Consoles - SLCentral |
| | The Odyssey2 used a number of preset characters, similar to what a handheld LCD game would use, that made a lot of the games look the same, but because of this idea the graphics were better overall and lacked the flicker that Atari VCS games were often plagued with. | | | It allowed for four players, had four games built into ROM, a fair quantity of cartridges and even came with a cartridge for BASIC so user could use the optional keyboard to write programs in BASIC and save them to the optional tape recorder. | | | First off, RCA's Studio II was black and white only and how could that compete with Atari's full color VCS? |
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http://www.slcentral.com/agurusworld/28/page2.php
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| | Home computer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Magnavox Odyssey² (1978) (aka Philips Videopac G7000) (first with full QWERTY keyboard) | | | The patents registered for the Magnavox Odyssey, despite its all-analog electronic construction, affected Atari 2600, Mattel, Activision, Nintendo and several arcade game manufacturers) | | | Atari 2600 (aka Atari VCS) (1977) (first very successful console, largest video game library) |
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| | GameSpot:Video Games PC Xbox 360 PS3 Revolution PSP DS PS2 PlayStation 2 GameCube GBA PlayStation 3 |
| | The Magnavox Odyssey2 used programmable 2K ROM game cartridges so that each game could be designed with unique sound and music. | | | Previously, games were limited to the palette of sounds hardwired into the specs of the console itself. | | | Atari's Asteroids hits arcades, and like Space Invaders, it employs a thumping, repetitive rhythm that speeds up as gameplay intensifies. |
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http://www.gamespot.com/features/6092391/p-2.html
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| | Ozyr's Odyssey2 Archive |
| | A lot of games for the Odyssey 2 were very similar to Atari 2600 games, but with much simpler graphics and gameplay. | | | There were also more games released over in Europe, where the system was slightly more popular than in the United States. | | | - Shortly after Atari introduced the 2600, Magnavox came out with its own cartridge-based game system, the Odyssey 2. |
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http://www.ozyr.com/o2/o2us.html
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| | Magnavox |
| | MAGNAVOX MRD200 / 37S DVD PLAYER / 5.1 AMPLIFIER | | | Magnavox MPC-270 Personal CD Player with 45-Second ESP | | | Magnavox 26 LCD widescreen TV w/DVD player 26MD255V/17 |
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http://www.auctionlistings.biz/auctions/Magnavox/Hughes+Defense+Communications
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| | ClassicGaming.com - The Odyssey2 and What Could Have Been |
| | You are not aware that the Atari 2600’s graphics can contain a little more detail than that of the Odyssey 2. | | | All things considered you realize that the Odyssey2 is by far the best buy and you get it like everyone else did that Christmas. | | | where Magnavox made successful business decisions and kicked Atari and Intellivision butt! |
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http://www.classicgaming.com/features/articles/o2chance
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| | Philips Videopac G7000 - the European Odyssey |
| | Dozens of games were developed for the Videopac, the bulk by Philips and Magnavox, and some by third parties like Parker and Imagic. | | | That was a pity, because this game was much more fun then Atari's Pac-Man. | | | The genius behind half of the games was Ed Averett, who also had the box-office hit KC Munchkin to his name. |
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http://computermuseum.50megs.com/brands/g7000.htm
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| | spelforum.nu - Artiklar |
| | Nintendo: Leksaksföretaget får 1975 licens att sälja Odyssey i Japan som Nintendo Color TV Game 6. | | | Efteråt bildade Nolan Bushnell tillsammans med Ted Dabney företaget Atari. | | | Magnavox kallade den helt blygsamt ”The Ultimate Video Game System”. |
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http://www.spelforum.nu/artiklar.asp?visaartikel=8
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| | ClassicGaming - A Member of The GameSpy Network |
| | John Hunter takes a crack at dispelling the myth that the Magnavox Odyssey2 games never used the often hyped keyboard. | | | John Hunter takes you through a trip in to an alternative universe, where Magnavox made successful business decisions and kicked Atari and Intellivision butt! | | | William Cassidy and Wayne Hunt teamed together to rewrite the original O2 section of the museum, which is now chock full of new info! |
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http://www.webwarper.net/ww/www.classicgaming.com/features/articles
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| | ModemSpeedTest Presents Video Game Console History |
| | The second generation of Odyssey consoles had a cult following but never gained the popularity of Atari. | | | It was the best-selling of a variety of Atari competitors, including the Bally Astrocade and the Fairchild Channel F, which used the same basic technology as the 2600. |
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http://www.modemspeedtest.com/videogames/1978.htm
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| | VIDEOPAC.ORG Home of The Philips G7000 |
| | However the original odyssey 2 console was never released as it had been developed with 24 built in games, but the major competitors for the home games market ATARI had just released the Atari VCS (2600) which allowed interchangeable games on ROM. | | | In 1974 Philips obtained the US company Magnavox which had been the company behind the release of the worlds first TV game system, Ralph Baers Brown box, which was released in 1972. | | | in 1982 The worlds fair in Knoxville, Tennessee the Magnavox stand was showing the latest Odyssey hardware and games, specially made for the event was Otto The robot, who later went on visiting Hospitals and schools with Jim Cofield and Mearl Eakins an odyssey sales manager. |
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| | The Wisdom of Frank G |
| | This was one of the first "home computers" in that it had a membrane style keyboard on its surface that was going to make this video game system easier to sell to parents based on its "educational uses" | | | Shortly after the Intellivision came out, Magnavox decided to give it another try and shipped out the Odyssey2 around 1980. |
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| | IT’S EVERY VIDEO GAME IN THE WORLD - But Have We Gone Too Far? |
| | I was never a fan, as most of the games were cheap knock-offs of the popular Atari games, which were in turn cheap knock-offs of the original arcade favorites. | | | The Odyssey looked kind of cool though, so it gets points today for sheer style. |
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| | vanderzande.com » magazines » game on |
| | De Atari 2600, Magnavox Odyssey2, Mattel Intellivision en de Colecovision met voor die tijd superieure graphics en het hitspel Donkey Kong van Nintendo. | | | De tijd van de spelcomputers die een televisietoestel als scherm gebruiken. |
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| | VideoGameReview.com - Simon & Schuster Outlaw Golf Reviews |
| | I have been playing computer golf since the Magnavox Odyssey2/Atari 2600 days and have been following the Links franchise since the Atari 800/Commodore 64 days and have played most versions including all of the Modern Links and EA's Tiger Woods releases. | | | The most fun I have had playing a computer golf game! | | | Being an actual golf player I tend to compare computer golf to real golf in many ways. |
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http://www.pcgr.com/Gamecube/PRD_156255_4177crx.aspx
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| | Digital Press - Emulators and ROMs |
| | Before you can play Odyssey2 games on your PC, hopefully it makes sense that you first need to obtain the necessary files. | | | This tutorial will teach you how to play Magnavox Odyssey2 games on your Windows-based PC by using the O2EM emulator and O2EM Launcher front-end. | | | I hope that you found this tutorial helpful. |
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| | AtariAge Forums -> Which vintage non-Atari console is your favorite? |
| | And as I never got a chance to play any other than Videopac back then, first time I played Atari 2600 in beginning of the nineties. | | | I had an Odyssey 2 for a while, and I enjoyed it, but the Coleco remains my favorite on that list... | | | Or Philips Videopac G7000 to mee! As I never heard about such thing as Odyssey before late internet age. |
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| | Magnavox Odyssey |
| | was the production of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game... | | | ClassicGaming.com -- the home of classic gaming on the net. | | | The Magnavox Odyssey is the first home video game console, predating the... |
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| | Stephen had two actual “games” on this computer — a primitive, text-heavy football game, and an Olympic Decathlon game (the javelin throw was a real bitch, I remember). | | | The first Odyssey system, developed in the early seventies, was the genesis for those early Pong games, and now the new model was a quantum leap in graphics and game variety (again, relatively speaking). | | | Soon Stephen moved on to bigger and better things with the arrival of the Magnavox Odyssey2. |
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http://pressuredrop.blogspot.com/2003_10_05_pressuredrop_archive.html
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| | Classic Home Videogames Museum: Second Generation: Magnavox Odyssey2 |
| | Magnavox also released a voice module to enhance the Odyssey2 gaming experience. | | | The Odyssey2's various capabilities don't quite match up to the Atari VCS--it is slower, has a lower resolution, and has only one voice for sound versus two in the VCS. | | | But Magnavox pushed the Odyssey2's full keyboard, and its ads proclaimed "The Keyboard is the Key." This appealed to a few players, but the arcade licenses of the other systems drew far more supporters. |
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http://gamesmuseum.h-body.org/history/gen2/odyssey2/odyssey2.html
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| | AllCommunity.com - Games: Video Games: Console Platforms: Classic |
| | Games: Video Games: Console Platforms: Cheats and Hints | | | Andrew Krieg's Video Game Hunter's Oasis - Contains cartridge lists for: the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, 800/Xl/Xe/XEGS, Lynx, and Jaguar; Colecovision ; Mattel Intellivision ; Magnavox Odyssey2 ; Sega Master System ; RCA Studio II; and the Nintendo NES, Super NES, and Virtual Boy. | | | The Odyssey² Homepage - A source for Odyssey2 information, pictures, reviews, and more. |
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http://search.allcommunity.com/Games/Video%5FGames/Console%5FPlatforms/Classic
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| | Philips P2000 in TutorGig Encyclopedia |
| | The Philips 'P2000T' home computer was Philips' first real entry in the home computer market, after the Philips Videopac G7000 game system (better known in the U.S. as the Magnavox Odyssey2) which they already sold to compete with the Atari 2600 and similar game systems. | | | Basically the P2000T was a Z80 based home computer that used a Teletext display chip to produce the video picture and a small Dictaphone cassette recorder for mass storage. |
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| | Interview with Chuck McGee - GameCritics.com |
| | Eventually, the Atari 2600 hit the scene and all of my friends who had more money than me got one. | | | It was one summer when my parents finally broke down and purchased the Magnavox Odyssey2 to help my constant ramblings about home and arcade games. | | | It might have also been the steady audio stream from my cassette player of "Pac-Man Fever" by Garcia and Buckner that told them I needed to channel that energy somehow. |
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| | Magnavox Odyssey2 Items for Sale |
| | Odyssey 2 Cartridge Software with Box & Doc $5 each (3 for $10) *Speedway/Spinout/Crypto Logic Multimode Game (2) *Computer Golf *Showdown in 2100 A.D. *Odyssey 2 Instruction Booklets $2 each (3 for $5) Alien Invaders Plus Cosmic Conflict Speedway/Spinout/Cryptologic |
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| | Web Wanderer: January 18, 2003 |
| | Charles in San Francisco found this "history of home video games" site. | | | Fairchild Channel F, and RCA Studio II Second Generation (1977-1981) "Golden Age": Atari VCS/2600, Bally Professional Arcade, Magnavox Odyssey2, Mattel Intellivision, Milton-Bradley Microvision, and Emerson Arcadia 2001. |
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| | Omniseek: /Games /Video Games /Console Platforms /Classic / |
| | Contains cartridge lists for: the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, 800/Xl/Xe/XEGS, Lynx, and Jaguar; Colecovision ; Mattel Intellivision ; Magnavox Odyssey2 ; Sega Master System ; RCA Studio II; and the Nintendo NES, Super NES, and Virtual Boy |
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| | Magnavox Odyssey^2 |
| | Send mail to KC with questions or comments about this web site. | | | Here's a shot of "The Voice", the Magnavox Odyssey2 voice synthesizer module, with its original box: |
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http://www.computercloset.org/MagnavoxOdyssey2.htm
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| | Philips Cctv |
| | Images of Odyssey2 Images to compliment the wikipedia article on the Magnavox Odyssey2, sold in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000. | | | Health, Energy, and Success for You with a Flexible Living Food Diet. |
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| | ~-www.game-industry.nl.tt-~ :: View topic - Puntje van kritiek |
| | Bij het stuk over de Magnavox Odyssey uit 1972 is een plaatje gebruikt van de Magnavox odyssey2 die pas in 1978 uitkomt. | | | Het plaatje van het pong scherm kloptniet bij 1958, dit is een scherm van ongeveer 1976. | | | Overigens is het wel een zeer mooie site! |
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