10 Amazing Philips Videopac & Magnavox Odyssey 2 Exclusives
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- Опубліковано 5 січ 2024
- In this video I look at 10 system exclusives worth playing for the Philips Videopac and its North American sibling the Magnavox Odyssey 2.
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Good memories on the videopac. Thanks dad. RIP. ❤
This was my first system. I have the vivid memory of my teacher asking the class if anyone had a games console. Bunch of kids put their hands up and said Atari or Grandstand. I raised my hand and said a Philips Videopac and he said "That's not a games console" in front of the whole class.
A friend of mine had one when I was a youngster, always remembered the Videopac.
This was the first game system i ever saw at my older. Cousins house. I was awestruck. I begged my parents for moths to buy me one and finally they caved in. I got a 7400 and played all the mentioned games. Eventually I sold it and got a C64. Much later a few years back I was visiting my cousin again and he handed me the Videopack with all the games. Really nice gesture. It now lives in my my gameroom
"Verkehrserziehung" is the best, taught me how to cross the street.
Posting while in hospital, got hit by a car...😐 ;)
Get well soon! 😜
I was so amused as the video kept going. I own the first three titles that you featured, almost expecting to have the majority of the games on your list. Instead, the only other one to show up was K.C.'s Krazy Chase. I seem to own 15 of the 47 games released in the USA, with their original boxes, so I'm almost a third of the way to a complete collection. One day I'll actually play my copy of Quest for the Rings, just to see how the hybrid video and board game works out.
Killer Bees is one of, if not the best, game on the platform. It offers a bit more depth of play than the majority of O2 games and creates that "just one more" obsessive mindset.
Attack Of The Timelords was the first Odyssey 2 game I ever played during a special event at my hometown's local game shop. That game made me get an Odyssey 2! Poor thing was getting almost zero attention at that event too!
Oh my goodness, that's Leonard Nimoy narrating the advert isn't it? Wow! Fantastic! I also remember seeing these in stores when I was a little kid and wanting one very badly, without even knowing what it was. Haha.
It is! I was wondering when somebody would spot that!
My father gave me a Videpac around 15 y.o. I had loads of fun with it. 5 years later I bought a spectrum 48 k, and the Videopac went to the drawer. Can't really say I miss him. Thank you for the video, it was fun to watch these games again 😊
Amazing!
My favorite Videopac game was Pickaxe Pete.
Oh... It feels like it was yeasterday...
The Odyssey2 was my first console (by a few weeks) and remains among my top 2 gaming machines (the TI-99/4A being the other), with their expanded memory "Challenger Series" cartridges being the best on offer. KC Munchkin and KC's Crazy Chase (which compbined Pacman with a snake game) were quite good, PickAxe Pete was great fun for a paired-back Donkey Kong, and Turtles was a truly outstanding Arcade port (one of the best ports of the game available at home). The Classic "Clowns" (Circus?) became PT Barnum, but kept the fun of the original balloon popping mayhem.
Odyssey's biggest deficit was the memory restricton (which meant that games were single player and single life (Turtles being a notable exception). The use of graphic primitives in ROM to save RAM also meant all the games had common sprites (the little dude introduced in Golf, appears in every game where a little dude is required and is pretty much the system's signature character.)
Their board-game/video-game hybrids addressed the meemory deficit, by creating a unique expanded gamelay to varying degrees of success (Quest for the Rings allowed for a pretty immersive Dungeon and Dragons Game with minimalist graphics and real, physical coins to win.
All in all, even taking the shortcomings into account, I'm glad I bought the Odyssey instead of the 2600. It wasn't a home arcade machine as much as the 2600 was, but there was a uniqueness to what it offered that made it a quirky delight to own (and its "The Voice" speech syntheser rivaled the tonal quality of the 99/4A). (the features also included among my favourite classic joysticks...with casing indentation ridges that locked the stick onto the 8 directions, making angled motion more precise than any other console.
A VERY important clsing note about the Odyssey2 is that over half it's games were written by one coder...Intel Salesman Ed Averett. Many of the games you featured in this review were his. he wrote 24 of the original 40 cartridges in just under 4 years.
The Odyssey2 was me and my brother's first console. The TI-99/4a was my first computer too. My favorite O2 games are: Pickaxe Pete, KC Munchkin, Freedom Fighters & Quest for the Rings. For the TI-99 it was: Parsec, Moonsweeper, Jawbreaker II & TI Invaders. I learned BASIC on it and wrote my own Hangman & Breakout games. I have just as many fond memories of these obscure systems as the other much more popular systems I got later. 😊
My first console - my dad randomly bought "the tv game" back in the day. The game I remember best was "Take the Money and Run" which had a bug where you could stand in a particular place and become immune when it was the enemies chasing you phase...we got a woodgrain Atari the next year
Just a few days before this Christmas we have found a boxed Videopac with some cartridges at a garage sale and send them to one of our dearest friends as a present: luckily, it works. It's pure retro fun, we spent a serious Retrochristmas this year!
Back in the day, Pick Axe Pete was my favorite. Still love it, but I've become a KCs Krazy Chase fanboy more recently, especially with it's voice support.
I remember when I was a kid in the 70's and my parents brought my grandfather Christmas shopping qith use and he bought a cartridge for this system as a present not understanding that you needed the game system. He thought you just plugged ther cartridge into the TV, seeing he seen the game playing on the TV in the store. RIP gramps.
Hahahaha, that's a great story!
This take me waaay back. A great piece of kit! I was fortunate to have one of these when I was 7 years old! 😊
I love how the commercials use footage generated by mulit-million dollar rendering mainframes to show the graphics of a primitive 8-colour console. ;-) Haven't watched the video yet but the only 'exclusives' I remember for this junker (prominently displayed at the Woodward's department store in the early 80s) were Quest for the Rings, Pickaxe Pete and K.C. Munchkin. Let's see what I missed.
Killer Bees, Freedom Fighters and Satellite Attack are technically no longer exclusive, as they have already been re-released on Steam through Videopac Collection 1.
I really liked the video, it deserves a part 2.
That's just using emulation though, so yeah, still exclusive.
Great content thankyou for sharing, although i never owned or could afford one of these machines as a teen back then it would of been mind blowing just to have played with one.
Games got boring real quick. But hey, i had the first ever console. How many people can say this?
The original Odyssey was the first games console, not the Odyssey 2.
Was my first console the G7000 I was 8 or 9 years old at the time.
Nice boxes they had the Philips games just like Atari but a bit different.
In the Netherlands the Philips was quite popular more than the Atari 2600 which they then called Atari Video Game system.
Atari was a bit more expensive but I don't remember that very well.
I had one of those. I remember me and my cousin Steve using the editor on the Pacman cartridge making the maze unbelievably easy so you could rack up an incredible score 😂
My parents bought one for christmas 1980 (or thereabouts). Fun system but competition was fierce those days.
Here in The Netherlands it was (kinda) big.
Yeah I heard it was very popular in the Netherlands, no surprise though with Philips being a Dutch company.
Freedom Fighter reminds me a little bit of the vector arcade game/Vectrex port Solar Quest.
I was hoping Crazy Chase and Freedom Fighter would be featured. 1st up Freedom Fighters.
Also brought back memories of games I forgot I had like the pinball game.
There were a few games you picked that were in my list; I like Killer Bees but my fave is Pickaxe Pete. The smashing of two rocks and getting a key gave a great feeling. I thought Videopac games made the 2600 looked advanced but they had great gameplay. This list made me wish I kept the console.
To think they went from this to the CD-i, that pretty big jump in evolution!
Did not know much about it after this i do thanks..
KC Munchkin is no more a straight Pac-Man clone than Ladybug or Lock n Chase, and is probably up there with the best maze games of its era. Crazy Chase is better, but I still enjoy the original.
I agree, but KC Munchkin isn't an exclusive anyway so wouldn't have made this video.
I never were very impressed by the flood of Pong home machines and it’s many copycats. Atari never came to the smaller towns here in Sweden neither. However , we had a tv store that sold Philips , and THIS machine made me and most of my friends interested in videogames.
Could you do a video about the programming on the videopac. I remember we had some kind of programming manual with it? We bought second hand, hacked using eprom reader with a box full of eproms.
How was that 3D oddesy commercial created? SGI machines? That early?
I never heard nothing about the Philips videopac but looks and sounds like a Atari 8 bit computer 🙂
I can't see any similarities personally, it's more like an Atari 2600!
@@TheLairdsLairprobably it was about purely physical appearance of the unit, with a built-in keyboard
It looks a little bit like the Atari 400, but not the other models. He also said "sounds" though, and the Atari 8-bit had terrific audio, this definitely doesn't!
He means why one sees on the screen. And yes, it does look like atari.
@@TheLairdsLair Hey what's only my opinion
So, when was the phillips videopac released in the EU?
1978, as I said at the start of the video. If you want to know more watch the 10 Amazing Facts video linked in the description.
@@TheLairdsLair 78 is odessy i think, not g7000 ??
Videopac and Odyssey 2 were both released at the end of 1978.
Both mc munch man,crazy chase and pick axe pete are the only ones am interested in but it’s just a little thing what’s makes it interesting to me,even popeye couldn’t save that console to being just feel boring in my opinion,
It feels more like playing atari 2600 ET or atari 2600 pacman on a shit rainy sunday,
I do like the aestatics of the console and controllers but that’s it,to me what it needed was getting more arcade ports to it wich should,ve over push the hardware to it’s limits rather then getting low end altered clone derivations of games for it,also i hardly call the odyssey a game console,i consider it more to be a hybrid computer system.
Still trough i do see huge potential in that hybrid game system😁
How we pushed the limits no one has any idea today
Crazy he.. 😏😉
Ah. Brazil... Where dead videogame systems go to live and rock huge market share.
Practically speaking, all Odyssey 2 games are Odyssey 2 exclusives. The hardware limitations forced all ports to be pretty different from the original games.
I think that whoever currently owns the rights to the Odyssey 2 doesn't know they do. You don't see "quick cash" bundles of old Odyssey 2 software like you see with Intellivision or Atari or lots of others.
It's a pity, because I'd love to see Odyssey get the same "treatment" as Atari VCS/ColecoVision Chameleon/Intellivision Amico. I mean obviously there are differences. Atari VCS is legit and a pretty cool product. Coleco Chameleon was 100% scam that ruined the brand. Intellivision Amico is ... somewhere in between? But anyway, ruined the brand.
Come on! I want to see what happens to Odyssey! Scam? Success? Ruined brand? Triumphant revival?
It's just ... Odyssey 2 was just so different and honestly had some weird and quirky different IPs. It has more potential, I think, than the other not-yet-ruined brand, Vectrex. Unfortunately, Vectrex IPs just don't have the same "kick" ... mostly it's just painfully unforgettable that Vectrex isn't Atari (with its many iconic vector graphics games). The Atari Recharged games with their iconic quasi-retro vector graphics look makes Vectrex even less exciting.
But a neo-retro Odyssey 2? That could be weird and quirky and different. It's just ... I don't think it can happen until some lawyer sifts through whatever stack of legal papers happens to confer current ownership of the IP.
Actually, you do, the first Videopac bundle is already on Steam with more coming: store.steampowered.com/app/2193100/Videopac_Collection_1/
The brand and the games are owned by the same people who did TheC64 Mini and A500 Mini amongst other things, they bought all the rights from Atari (bet you didn't know they owned it!) a few years back. They also own the rights to the CD-i and loads of its games too.
I talked about all this a while back in my Videopac Amazing Facts video.
@@TheLairdsLair Ooh, this is cool! This is from after the last I had checked (which was a while ago).
But if it's the folks who did TheC64 and A500 Mini, then they wouldn't ruin the brand in some interesting train wreck way. They'll just release a competent Odyssey 2 Mini if they calculate there's enough demand for it (okay, there probably isn't).
Still, maybe the next Tommy wannabe could buy it off them, for the right price?
They showed me images of a proposed Videopac Mini about 4 years ago, but it seems they never did anything with it.
just a comment - I lke your channel but I hate everything about your openings. the graphics. the font. the voice clip. the music. I literally skip vids because I can't bear to be subjected to your vid opens.
that is all.
Well, you are very much in the minority there I'm afraid. I constantly get comments from people telling me how much they love my intro and when I said I was going to change it there was absolute uproar, so I kept it.
If you really can't bear it that much and can't skip or tolerate a 15 second intro you should probably unsubscribe.