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Inside the Magnavox Odyssey2

Let’s take an in-depth look at the Magnavox Odyssey2 video game console and see the way we played in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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The Strategy Games

Contents

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The Hardware
  • 3. The Hardware (Cont’d)
  • 4. The Voice
  • 5. The Games
  • 6. The Strategy Games
  • 7. Playing with the Odyssey2
  • 8. How to Connect the Odyssey2 to a Modern TV Set

What really set the Odyssey2 apart from its competitors were the three strategy games that were available for it: “The Quest for the Rings!,” a dungeons and dragons kind of game; “Conquest of the World!,” a Risk-style game; and “The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt!,” to see which player makes more money out of the virtual stock market. The first two were actually board games where the action, instead of being decided over dice, was decided by playing on the video game console. The third one used the console to randomly set prices of the stocks. The Quest for the Rings! included an overlay to be placed on the keyboard.

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 18: The three strategy games

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 19: The Quest for the Rings! overlay

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 20: The Quest for the Rings! overlay

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 21: The Quest for the Rings! board game

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 22: Conquest of the World! board game

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 23: The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt! board game

Magnavox Odyssey2Figure 24: The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt! investment book

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