The "Videojuel", the last unknow Magnavox Odyssey clone

[slydc]

Hifolks,

 

I know i don't post here quite often but since we are starting a New Year today, what about sharing information regarding an unknown (but will be now known as today) Magnavox Odyssey clone called the "Videojuel".

 

I won't copy and paste what i posted on my blog so here's the link to read about it:

 

https://odysim.blogspot.com/2019/01/happy-videojuelerr-new-year-everyone.html

 

 

And happy New Year everyone! =)

 

 

--- Sly DC ---

 

[TheCoolDave]

I was wondering so I checked it out... WHAT A UGLY console....

[pacman000]

Never heard of an Odyssey clone. Plenty of Odyssey² clones tho.

 

Love that shade of blue, & it's still shaped like an old Pizza Hut building.

 

Mind if I copy a pic from your blog to this forum?

[Flojomojo]

I like the carrying case, kinda. I had a vinyl-and-cardboard-with-a-snap-enclosure case like that for my Matchbox cars.

 

It's jarring to me to see a realistic rifle in a kids' playset like this. I wonder if anyone would be able to transport this thru airport security?

 

[CatPix]

It was very common back then. All Pongs I've seen had realistic or semi-realistic guns. At least the European ones... and the Soviet ones

 

Fun fact :

the Odyssey gun was made BEFORE the console, for an electronic target game.

 

Made by... Nintendo. Yep.

 

I have one, tho, it's the gun for the German Interton Pong systems, with a standard DIN connector instead of the crazy Odyssey connector.

 

 

(source of the pic : http://odysim.blogspot.com/2015/09/nintendo-and-magnavox.html )

 

Real quality stuff even, you really have to "pump" to shoot.

 

 

One of the coolest Pong It's French. The gun is an almost standard "gun with a rifle butt and additionnal cannon " model, that you can use like a hand gun or a rifle.

 

once assembled :

 

 

 

In Soviet Russia, TV shoots YOU ?

 

Edited January 3, 2019 by CatPix

[slydc]

Never heard of an Odyssey clone. Plenty of Odyssey² clones tho.

 

Love that shade of blue, & it's still shaped like an old Pizza Hut building.

 

Mind if I copy a pic from your blog to this forum?

 

Well, there is a few clones of the Odyssey(1) like the Telematch de Panoramic, Kanal 34, etc...

 

Mium...(Pizza Hut)...you're making me hungry! LOL!!!

 

And no problem if you want to copy a picture, they all comes from Ricardo Saucedo.

[slydc]

It was very common back then. All Pongs I've seen had realistic or semi-realistic guns. At least the European ones... and the Soviet ones

 

Fun fact :

the Odyssey gun was made BEFORE the console, for an electronic target game.

 

Made by... Nintendo. Yep.

 

I agree with CatPix as many of Pong consoles had realistic/semi-realistic guns back then.

 

Also, some Coleco Telstar guns like the Telstar Ranger, Telstar Arcade, Telstar Gemini, etc...were made by Nintendo.

 

 

(source: Geek Vintage web site (http://www.geekvintage.com/coleco-telstar-arcade-hardware.php)

 

So this is weird...the very first Nintendo venture in video games were "guns" (ok..toy guns or light guns)

before themselves sold their own Pong consoles.

[high voltage]

I read in some book that Nin distributed the Odyssey in Japan.

[pacman000]