Inside the Magnavox Odyssey2 - The Strategy Games of 9

The Strategy Games

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.

Figure 18: The three strategy games