The Magnavox Family

Updated November 9, 2008

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Odyssey

What a cool game machine!! This First Odyssey had the games inside the console and they weren't eproms but little boards full of capacitors, resistors and the like all placed in rows as seen in picture below.


The controllers for the Odyssey are huge and the wires thicker than a pencil - look at the size of the plug! You could apply "english" and you had horizontal and vertical control over the ball. Each controller had it's own reset button. The picture on the left shows the sleek simple styling of the Odyssey.
 


Here is a picture of the inside of the Odyssey with all the built in circuit boards. The "cartridges" on the right were just shorting boards routing the console to play the right game.

These are a few of the different game pieces used for playing some of the games for the Odyssey and on the right are the variuos TV overlays for the screen to simulate colour. The overlays came in 2 different sizes depending on the screen size of your TV, both sets came with the one I found, thanks to Steve and Mike! One of the overlays is a beautiful dart board layout.

If anyone can be of help here I am looking for the TV switchbox, #8 shorting cart and power supply that unfortunately did not come with my find. Everything else seems to be there including 2 box sets that seem to have been bought seperate from the initial set-up. Please e-mail me if you can help.

Magnavox Odyssey ^2

 


In Mint Condition The Odyssey 2 "The Voice" Model

Hardware

System with voice module