The Story of the Unreleased Magnavox Odyssey 3

[@JustWasted3HoursHere]

The Odyssey 1 had tennis, hockey (aka tennis), football (aka tennis), car racing (aka tennis), skiing (aka tennis), cat and mouse (aka tennis), Simon says (aka tennis) and one or two other tennis games. I never knew anyone who had one and never saw one in a store. I'm glad the console competition figured out that this was not going to last very long without vastly expanding its capabilities.

[@DJSpecialSauce]

I love your videos, this is another good one! So let me get this straight... their idea of next-generation gaming was to showcase the same limited square, triangle and circle shaped sprites with stick characters on top of colorful backgrounds? Even the O3 original game Flashpoint looked sub-par. It shows that they really didn't know what they were doing. This system would have absolutely bombed regardless of a crash or not.

[@dragokills6990]

I absolutely love that old news clip at the start!

[@louiseogden1296]

Also that classic 70s logo graphics. That's a TV ident in another universe.

[@joejacobsonwales]

I didn't even know Philips made a console before the CD-i until quite recently, thanks for helping me fill in some gaps!

[@retropalooza]

That's what we do, we fill gaps - rocky balboa

[@hyp3rvirus]

vintage consoles and games were more cool than PS5 souless era.

[@marccaselle8108]

I get that the oddysey 2 was meant to compete with the atari 2600. Here is food for thought. In the very early 90s, (1991, and 1992, specifically) for every used Odyssey 2 system i would see at the flea market, i would see at least 5 to 10 atari 2600 systems, you could buy for 20 bucks or less at the time.

[@marccaselle8108]

I never saw any commercials for the odyssey but that's because when I was born the Odyssey was no more

[@richardadams4928]

Despite the sparse graphics, Pick Axe Pete was a lot of fun. So were UFO, KC's Krazy Chase, and the unfortunately short-lived KC Munchkin (SO much better than Atari's awful Pac-Man).

[@retropalooza]

Kc Munched pacman for sure

[@geekstorian]

very nice presentation. I knew about the Odyessy 2 , I never knew they pushed through with a 3rd one. Given it was primarily released in Europe and by name I would never associate it I can see why I may have totally missed this one being from the states.

[@chinablue1699]

We had the odyssey 300 which was pretty much a stripped down version of the Odyssey 1 , we got it as 'old new stock' and it was... boring . I played on it once and then it got put in a box and never seen again as my neighbor had an Atari 2600.

[@skywarp727]

This has to be one of the earliest attempts of an online function. Talk about ahead of it's time. Very forward thinking. Great video.

[@Asterra2]

I privately hope that the ill-fated Odyssey3 will someday be picked up by retro developers as a "what if" platform for homebrew games. But on paper, let's face it: The Odyssey3 (1983) is just an Odyssey2 (1978) with the added ability to have a single, static, 2x-resolution layer of background graphics. That's where all the extra RAM goes. Still just a single, extremely limited sound channel. Still just 16 colors. A faster CPU? One wonders why. Maybe the horsepower was needed to display the new background graphics. But if there's really more to it, we never saw it unlocked in any games. So maybe this is ripe territory for some homebrew efforts.

[@TheLairdsLair]

People have made homebrews for the European version of the hardware.

[@litjellyfish]

Seems it did not focus on having much more powerful sprites so I guess the idea was to use the beefed up CPU to handle software scrolling / sprites. Much like the spectrum did

[@marccaselle8108]

It's so 70s sounding and looking

[@cdoty]

Interesting decision to focus on the background, whereas the games that followed focused more on the foreground and main character sprite.

[@litjellyfish]

Seems these was just same game as for 7000 where they just added a hires background. So it makes sense it was like this. So you should not compare it with new games that was for that system

[@shoolima7131]

thanks for making the video! I just got an odyssey 2 with a voice module

[@TheLairdsLair]

Awesome, you'll have a lot of fun!

[@johneygd]

10 points for philips as for atleast releasing the G7400 in europe,phew🤣

[@retropalooza]

Apparently the amico still is gonna ship.....8:42 what the heck board is that? Says odyssey 2 but I don't believe it

[@TheLairdsLair]

Amico will never ship, I just left the Amico Facebook group because those guys are just delusional. It's a modern FPGA recreation, a little video easter egg.

[@retropalooza]

@@TheLairdsLair thanks for the update. I agree with you they are dillusional. Still waiting for my refund. Still amazed tallaricos out doing concerts and not in prison. The rich just get richer gotta love those bankruptcy laws

[@JesterEric]

Is the Norseman game the same one that was released for MSX by Electric Software? Another one of their MSX games Shark Hunter had an unreleased Videopac version

[@wadmodderschalton5763]

The Philips Videopac G7400 feels more like the Magnavox Odyssey 2.5 or Odyssey 2+. (1:51, 7:47, 9:26, 13:54, 14:52, 16:21)

[@lexingtRick]

But I thought the Odyssey 2 had a controller memory. The console without a cpu.

[@whoeverest_the_whateverest]

1:41 how the heck this phrase hasn't yet become an overused ultrapopular meme like other 21st century humor sources and/or ytp classics

[@nicholasantonson7296]

Classic 1970s ads and 1980s.

[@marccaselle8108]

Love those old ads that I never got to see.

[@NesNyt]

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[@TheLairdsLair]

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