Happy #SciFiSaturday! Not a ton of time with #SciFi stuff this week, save for a bit of classic #QuantumLeap and #StarTrek. I also snuck in some retro gaming time this week on the #Odyssey2 and #NES. How about you? #nerdlyfe

La Búsqueda De Los Anillos es quizás uno de los juegos de estrategia más interesantes de la #videopac
Basado en «El Señor de los Anillos» este cartucho mezcla la acción de un videojuego con la adicción de un juego de mesa #retrogaming #videojuegos #odyssey2 #8bit

Phosphor Dot Fossils: Attack Of The Timelord! (Odyssey2, 1982)
Wait, and attacking Time Lord? But probably not the one you're expecting. Certainly not the one young Earl was expecting. Phosphor Dot Fossils braces for an Attack of the Timelord on the #Odyssey2. https://youtu.be/S-eFFZq1xqw #retrogaming

Phosphor Dot Fossils: Q*Bert (Odyssey2, 1983)
Q*Bert? On the Odyssey2? It was a thing - in certain parts of the world - back in 1983. But can the #Odyssey2 even do cubes? Or does it even have to? Who even needs cubes? Phosphor Dot Fossils dusts off Q*Bert, a delight we simply didn't get in North America. https://youtu.be/-U9qUoEWh6s #retrogaming

Phosphor Dot Fossils: Demon Attack (Odyssey2, 1983)
Most #Odyssey2 games were first-party software, until Imagic - always keeping an eye out for a market hungry for more games - dipped its toes into the water, producing a couple of the rarest titles for the Odyssey2. And this is one of them - Phosphor Dot Fossils attempts to withstand a withering Demon Attack. https://youtu.be/sZGVwZPTd8A #retrogaming

Didn’t I post an Odyssey2 website link on my older Mastodon account before I deleted it?

Ah well, here you go.

https://odyssey2.info/

Looking for more #retro fun in your life? I contributed to this month's issue of DOS and Don'ts---a retro-style text newsletter, all about retro culture. See what I wrote about the #Magnavox #Odyssey2. #nerdlyfe http://dosanddonts.mywebcommunity.org/text/DOSnDonts-010.txt

Ahh, retrocomputing memories shared on #IRC this morning.

Amazing fact: there are at least three people on Metafilter, all participating in the BASIC anniversary thread, who learned programming using an obscure assembler cartridge produced for the #Odyssey2 console.

40 years ago:
IBM introduces the #PCJr,
#Coleco ships the #Adam &
#Infocom disses graphics
These stories and many more on this episode of the VGNRTM w/They Create Worlds' Alex
https://patreon.com/posts/november-1983-96193251
#commodore #sinclair #acorn #atari #odyssey2 #vectrex #apple #amiga #ea #activision

The Philips/Magnavox Odyssey2 keyboard design was actually pretty good for a shitty membrane, but the 7200 moving space to the far corner is kinda bullshit. And would've made the keyboard overlay games unplayable.

But that black & white screen, I can't think of *any* O2 games that didn't use color as their primary game element. There were only a few sprites, all little dudes or spaceships looked the same.

https://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1087
#videogames #retrocomputing #odyssey2

Select Game on YouTube: Steamed Up!
Select Game awakens from its long slumber to test-drive Philips' new Videopac Collection 1 on Steam. There are features. There are bugs. There are opinions. And now...there's video of the game in action. https://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/601-steamed-up/ #odyssey2 #videopac #jopac

Select Game podcast: Steamed Up!
Select Game, the only dedicated Odyssey2/Videopac podcast on the internet, awakens from its long slumber to test-drive Philips' new Videopac Collection 1 on Steam. There are features. There are bugs. https://www.thelogbook.com/selectgame/601-steamed-up/ #odyssey2 #videopac #jopac

In the 1970s, developers hadn't quite figured out how to translate golf into a video game yet. Philips' version on the #Videopac 7000 is one of the earliest renditions, putting aside the amazing Flats/Golf on the PLATO system and some text-only games. It's a plausible attempt, with simple but (mostly) effective controls. Hold fire to power up your clockwise backswing, then release.

#Atari must have approved, as they pretty much copied it for their Golf (1980).

Just as I thought it was safe to leave the 1970s...

... Videopac Collection 1 is out on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2193100/Videopac_Collection_1/. 10 games from the Philips #Videopac 7000 AKA the #Magnavox #Odyssey2 (!)

Presumably there are only 10 games because they want you to buy Videopac Collection 2 when it comes out. (Which I probably will. *sigh*.)

Anyway, here's Air-Sea War, which looks suspiciously like the bomber games on #Atari2600 Air-Sea Battle.

Recently encountered the Odyssey 2 game named "Most Innovative Game of 1982" (per Electronic Games magazine), which feels timely and maybe explains a lot about the last 40 years.