Magnavox Odyssey 2 - A Look Back!

"So realistic, the court has a built-in gravity field!"

Let's take a minute to break away from being smothered with Xbox360, PS3 and Revolution news to reflect on a truly revolutionary console - The Magnavox Odyssey 2!!!

Magnavox's 2nd outing in the home console arena was a good effort. Coming out five years after the original static cling model, the O2 promoted itself as a home computer! How exciting! Remarkably, many of it's titles were written by a Magnavox salesman who was full of great ideas (presumably removable joysticks not being one of them), the great Mr. Ed Averett.

The Odyssey2 would see some interesting titles and peripherals in it's life. Among them a voice module, Lord of the Rings game, an into to programming cart and a Pac-Man clone that sent them to court.

If you ever want to experience a great pre-Atari 2600 cartridge based console - pick one up!

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