Starfury

I'm old too...but not that old. Turns out the model I have is the Odyssey ITL 200

I have an Odyssey ITL 200. Going to try to get an old TV to test it on.

The unit says Odyssey 2 on the box. 1972. The cabinet is white plastic, the controllers are huge and have thick brown cords to plug in. It "works" but not well enough to play games.

The Odysey is part of my in-laws estate. Since I'm the only person that is in any way technical it was given to me to test/sell. I put batteries in the unit, hooked it to the TV and put in a cartridge. It comes on...but the games don't load and I don't get any sort of menu. I think it's using the 40+ year old cable/converter to a modern TV. I'm going to scrounge up an old tube TV and see if that works better. Yes, the unit is for sale but I want to make sure it's good before I do sell it.

I finally got around to connecting the Odyssey 2 that was my in-laws. I put in 6 batteries and a game chip, connected the cable to the converter and used a (cheap) co-ax cable to connect to the TV. It appears to power on and both controllers move the blocks on the screen. The problem is that the sound is nothing but static and I can't figure out how to play the games that are on the other 5 game cards. I can't tell if it's the old cable or the fact that it's connected to a 46" flat screen. I may be able to access an old CRT TV and that may help but any suggestions on how to get it to work would be great.

I still have it; haven't had time to hook it up to see if it works. I think I can just use the converter box it came with and connect to the antenna in port on the TV. I wasn't aware of the "don't discuss price" rule here; I asked because my research didn't give any consistent answers.

The question is: What's it worth?

I took some pics of the box and bits and put them on imgur. http://imgur.com/a/rT1FW

The box it's packed in plus the invoice ($85) says it's a 200 system. It does appear to have been used...barely. The cards/poker chips/screen covers look untouched. There is an adapter with it but I'm not sure how it fits in the box. I'd post pictures here if I knew how.

We were going through my in-laws estate and in the closet was an Odyssey game system. It is in the cardboard packing box and when I brought it home and opened it to test it out...it's still new. Game was bought and then shoved in a closet and forgotten. What is this worth? There's 6 game chips in there, a bunch of cards/plastic sheets to put over the TV and adapters. We don't plan on keeping it and I'm in charge of selling it.