This catalog, scanned for me by Greg (Dr. Demento), is somewhat larger than
the previous one and devotes a 2-page spread to each of their titles. Therefore,
you actually get to see the great box art for each game in larger detail. Odyssey
games had very unique packaging and I think that they had some really awesome
artistry on them. You can judge that for yourself below!
The cover and the back cover, respectively. One of Magnavox's really big
selling points was the keyboard that the console had. Yes, it had a keyboard,
and YES, it sucks. It's still fun though.
A decent photograph of the system. Note that it says you got three
games to play with your new system, Speedway, Spin-out and Crypto-Logic.
These games all came on the same cart, and therefore it's the O^2 Equivalent of VCS
Combat since it was the pack-in.
The Voice is a module that fits over the top of the console and
clicks into the cartridge slot, allowing you to play speech synthesis games. I've never
seen of of these things, but I understand them to be fairly rare and somewhat cool. As
was the case with Mattel's Intellivoice, only a handful of games were available
for it. I have no idea if the three games mentioned in the catalog ever appeared.
Featured: Football
Featured: Bowling, Basketball
Featured: Baseball
Featured: Computer Golf
Featured: Alpine Skiing
Featured: Hockey, Soccer
Featured: Volleyball
Yes, the titles from all the games had exclamation points after them, and
no, I don't care. :)
