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I agree, I am very unfair. I'll be the first to admit these "reviews" are extremely subjective and based on fairly short sessions with the system. Taking away points is a silly thing to do and is meant more to be humorous. Since I did invite voting for the system in the comments and since you are the first to voice an opinion then I will restore the points. Oh, and I actually LIKE the Odyssey! Honest! You will see.

Dang, I knew I should've eBay'd all my Odyssey stuff before doing this!

Thanks! You just made my day!

Sent ya two seperate paypal payments for two orders today. Let me know if there are any problems. Oh, the payments came from Michael McCourt on Paypal. Just so ya know.

heheh, thanks scogey. I think the 70s will go by quickly enough. It's the 80s that I think I'll be in forever! Actually, I just thought about it and I take it back. The 80s might move a little quicker. What's slowing me down so much in the 70s is getting my 7 year old son to play these 2-player only games with me. We do have surprising fun with some of them (none that I've talked about yet) but every bad one reinforces the "crap game from hell" feeling that makes him not want to try any more of them. I shudder to think how hard it's going to be to get him to play anything from this era after he plays a few RCA Studio II games.

That "screenshot" is actually a scan of the Odyssey's overlay for the game Tennis. (A painstakingly composited scan as the overlays are all too big for my scanner.) Those players never move from their spots. The Odyssey Overlays are like what the Vectrex system used to add color. It is a sheet of plastic that clings to the video screen. All the action takes place behind it. If I can get a good picture of the Odyssey in action with the overlays on it, I'll post it. EDIT: There, above is an actual screen shot of the game in action. You can see that the overlay just adds a little flavor while the Player Spots and Ball Spot does their thing underneath.

This is really interesting stuff which I've never seen explained before. I'm going to risk asking a question and sounding like an idiot. Is the horizontal blanking period the time during which the electron beam is going back to the other side of the screen to start the next scan line? Kind of like a vertical retrace only a little shorter? Instead of sending it back to the other side why didn't they just move it down one row and have it draw things on its way back?

These adventure editors look really neat. Do you have to draw everything yourself or do they come with graphics libraries? Wait, I guess I can go look that up for myself! Good luck on solving your memory problem!

That's so cool about Atari Basketball! I never knew that about the AI, probably because I never got that far ahead. Heh.

I think the whole PC to <insert console here> theme is a good one. A lot of PC gamers don't know what has come over to consoles and a lot of console gamers aren't aware of what has been ported over from the PC. (and vice versa).(if that makes any sense).

Wow. Glad your mom is doing OK. What a scary story!

Cool. Didn't know about Giants OR Elite Force for the PS2. Thanks for talking about them!

After having the CC2 for about two and a half weeks, I finally received my MMC and jumped right in today. The menu generator is fine, though my only dissappointment (and this is not with the CC2 itself) was that it only recognized two of my Atari 7800 roms (Double Dragon 7800 and Rampage 7800). Of course, I'm in no hurry, the 1024 other Atari 2600 roms that it did recognize will keep me busy for a long time. Anyway, this thing is great. Now, can anyone sell me their Intellicart?

Word Search Staring at 16 different game titles. Are the remaining 10 all different? Does silver have anything to do with the answer?