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Posted on Jan 6th 2013 at 12:36:02 AM by (Zagnorch)
Posted under odyssey2, magnavox, odyssey, retro, old school

Hey now!

I've been alluding to a significant retro pick-up for a couple weeks now, and I figured it's time for the big reveal:




A complete boxed Magnavox Odyssey2 system with hardwired controllers, and CIB Speedway! / Spin-Out! / Crypto Logic! pack-in game, along with:




CIB games:
-   Match-Maker! / Logix! / Buzzword!
-   Cosmic Conflict!
-   Bowling! / Basketball!
-   Pac-Man K.C. Munchkin!
-   Computer Golf!
-   Football!
-   Space Alien Invaders Plus!

   
Loose games:
-   Baseball!
-   Blackjack!
-   Blockout! / Breakdown!


Um... why do all the game titles end with exclamation points? That''s kinda annoying, you know? It's like the ALL CAPS of the pre-internet era or something.


But I digress. Here's the topper:





-   An almost-CIB Quest for the Rings set (one piece is missing). Finally, an O^2 game whose title doesn't end in an exclamation point. That's because it's so cool, it doesn't have to shout about how cool it is. Of all the games I got with the system, this is the one I'm most interested in giving a whirl.


While the entire collection's cosmetic appearance could use a fair deal of cleanup, I figured I got a decent deal paying $80 for the lot.


Where did I find all this, you ask? Well, it originally belonged to my best friend, who kept it locked away in his attic for a couple decades. Weird thing is, I knew he had it ever since I've known him, but never thought to ask him about it, even after seriously getting into vidya collecting. Then, a few weeks before Christmas, he told me he was planning to sell it, and asked if I could offer it for sale to "those guys on that video game site you hang out at" on his behalf. I told him I'd think about it.

Well, I DID think about it-- which quickly turned into me thinking of other O^2 collectors on the site and how they love to gloat about their ownership of such an interesting bit of retro hardware, and lord it over the have-nots at every opportunity (you KNOW who you are). That's when I realized that I wanted to lord it over the have-nots too, and laugh at them for being the underprivileged little peons that they are. Because I'm nothing if not compassionate.

Anyhoo, I called my bud to let him know my interest, he mathed out a price, I agreed to it, we tested it out to see if it still worked, I threw him the four Andys, he threw me the whole shebang,  and now I'm better than all you pathetic non-O^2-owning losers in every single way.




The cold, hard truth hurts, doesn't it?

'Late



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Comments
 
Welcome to the cool kids club, 'Norch. Enjoy the big boy chairs Wink
 
Quest for the Rings!!! is one of the best looking CIB games out the imo. Not a great gaming pickup Zag.......but a really awesome collecting piece!!
 
That is odd, a system and games that defiy gravity and is able to stick to a wall.
 
Whoa, what the-- that's not how they looked in the preview.

BRB
 
Nice.  Getting a Quest for the Rings with all the tokens can be a pain in the butt, too.  Got to get UFO! next.
 
I don't know who all those people are who hold their O^2 collections over everybody's head, but welcome to the cool kids club! Seriously, we're the best!
 
I'm...part if a cool kids club? That must have been an accident. Wink
Congrats on the pickup! Many games on the ol' O^2 are not exactly classic, but Killer Bees! alone is an exclusive worth the system IMHO. And the speech modulator, if you can find one, makes the experience far more hilarious.
 
There is definitely less interest in the Odyssey2 versus some of the other consoles of the era.  It could be due to the limited number or games, the fact that many of the Parker Bros releases didn't always work on the consoles, or that most people didn't even realize it existed back then.  But I would recommend every gamer/collector spend some time on the O^2 at some point.
 
@Techie413: 1978 was just a bad year to exist for VG hardware companies that were not named Atari.  Things were very different back then and most hardware companies were struggling to get an identity while providing clones that kids who played arcade games would recognize.  I mean, look at the amount of consoles released from 1977 to 1984.  Ridiculous.  No wonder the market crashed.

I think that if more people could here the startup sound that the O^2 made the popularity of it would increase dramatically.



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