Popular games for platform Odyssey
Baseball is a combined board-video game for the Magnavox Odyssey system that runs with its Cartridge No.3.
Extra game released for the Odyssey in 1973. Came in a pack of six with Interplanetary Voyage , Brain Wave, Win, Wipeout, and Volleyball. Worked with Cartridge #8
One of four games packed with Shooting Gallery, a Magnavox Odyssey peripheral. One player sets their dot on overlays of prehistoric animals, while the other player attempts to shoot the dot with the light gun in as few shots as possible. Uses game card number 9.
This is some sort of a capture the flag game. Instead of a flag, the object is to capture the enemy general. Two armies share the screen, the Army of Northwestonia in the upper left corner and the Army of Southeasternia in the lower right corner. The players control the general of the army with the joystick. The robots in each army are controlled by the computer, and their mission is to capture the enemy general.
Keyboard Creations! lets the player type in a main message which will continually scroll across the screen. The game also lets the player set up an "alarm" message which can pop up every 30 seconds. The player can also set a digital clock to keep track of time.
In Brain wave you must shoot down the invaders and dodge the incoming. Use dice to decide the next move.Watch out for falling air craft because it can kill you just as quick as the gun fire can. This game forces you to think and of course take a chance.
Players move their dot to symbols on the overlay to fill out their "Win card", while their dot is invisible until the reset button is pressed.
Simon Says is one of the 12 original games that was shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.2 and uses cards with an overlay. In Simon Says, one player holds a deck of cards (provided with the game) with depictions of several body parts and must then indicate them to the other players by saying something like "Simon says... touch your right hand". The other players will then rush to the specified place as quickly as possible, the winner being the one to touch the most body parts before his/her opponent.
One of four games packed with Shooting Gallery, a Magnavox Odyssey peripheral. One player moves their dot along a flight path on the overlay, while the other player attempts to shoot it with the light gun. Uses game card number 9.
States is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.6 and uses 50 state cards with a study map.
Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. A combination of strategic moves made on a separate game board and tactical combat resolved on the screen; different assaults use different cards. Used game cards number 4, 5, and 6.
Hockey is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.3 and uses a stadium scoreboard with an overlay.
Extra game released for the Odyssey in 1972. Came in a pack of six with Wipeout ,Volleyball , Invasion , Handball and Baseball. Worked with Cartridge #2
Cat and Mouse is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.4 and uses stick on numbers.
Ski is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.2 and uses stick on ski markers with an overlay.
You play a miner named Pickaxe Pete, and you start off in the middle of the screen with a pick-axe. There are three doors from which boulders are coming, bouncing down the mine-shafts; every time Pete destroys one of these he gains 3 points, although the axe wears out after a while and disappears. When two boulders collide, they explode, and out comes either a pick-axe which floats to the bottom of the screen, a key which floats to the top, or nothing. If Pete has no axe, you can either jump over boulders (gaining him 1 point), or get to the bottom of the mine to retrieve a new axe (gaining a 5-point bonus). If he collects a key then he can enter the doors, which lead him to the next level.
Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. A racing game using both a track overlay and a game board; the game board keeps track of laps and the second player's dot along with the ball dot keeps time. Uses game card number 5.
Trans American Rally is a racing game released in 1983. It is avaliable only for the Odyssey Videopac +.
Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey is the ultimate space thriller in the best tradition of the genre. You're the pilot of a space fighter, accidentally catapulted into a parallel universe populated by hostile alien creatures; and they're not happy to see you! To get out of this hell, do your best, to destroy hordes of enemies. Be prepared to be part of this world, if you want to survive. Develop and upgrade your space fighter with a wide range of role-play features. Destroy to survive! Survive to return home!
Shooting Gallery was the very first collection of shooting games with a light gun for a home console system. It came on the Magnavox Odyssey Cartrdige No. 10, used a original sized rifle and four different screen overlays.
Interplanetary Voyage is an Action game, developed and published by Magnavox, which was released in 1973. The player guides their dot, which has momentum, to planets to complete missions given by cards with a maximum number of moves allowed.
Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. Two players use paddles to knock a ball back and forth on a screen; uses an overlay of a volleyball court, and players must knock the ball over the net for scores to count. Uses game card number 7.
Table Tennis was developed from 1966-1969 until eventually releasing as the pack-in game for the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 and is one of the earliest known sports games, notably the inspiration for Atari's Pong.
Percepts is the only known game that Magnavox gave away for free. When you purchased the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 you could get a free game from Magnavox if you registered the purchase by mailing the "free bonus game" coupon to them. Worked with Cartridge #2.