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MAGNAVOX Odyssey 300	Pongs	U.S.A.	1976	General Instruments AY-3-8500	name image logo company company_name specs tabs photos links docs comments related software oc_id source Odyssey 300 /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey300_1s.jpg /media/museum/logos/magnavox_odyssey300_logo.gif /companies/magnavox MAGNAVOX label value NAME Odyssey 300 label value MANUFACTURER Magnavox label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1976 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE Tennis, Smash, Hockey label value KEYBOARD two built-in knobs label value CPU General Instruments AY-3-8500 label value SPEED None label value CO-PROCESSOR game selection, skill level (1, 2 or 3), power/reset label value RAM On screen label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value SIZE / WEIGHT Unknown label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output label value OS 6 ''C'' batteries label value POWER SUPPLY External power supply (9v) label value PERIPHERALS No label value PRICE 69$ (USA, 1977) photos software links docs title subtitle text image ODYSSEY 300 /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey300_1.jpg title subtitle text image FUNCTION SCHEME /media/museum/photos/magnavoc_odyssey300_sketch.jpg title url text www.atariarchives.org http://www.atariarchives.org/bcc2/showpage.php?page=278 This excellent web site has a scan of an old article about some Odyssey systems title url text www.pong-story.com http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey_other.htm Odyssey dedicated page. Excellent website. title url cover text ODYSSEY 300 - INSTALLATION AND GAME RULES null /media/museum/docs/couvs/magnavox_odyssey300_manual_cover.jpg **ODYSSEY 300 - INSTALLATION AND GAME RULES**\ written by Magnavox  compiled/archived by Olivier Boisseau\  type of document : PDF\  size : 1.6 MB\  source : www.old-computers.com author date text Dan Cochran (Leesport, PA) Thursday 14th July 2011 Oh wow, I got one of these for Christmas around 75/76. Everyone was transfixed (for about two days). Like other dedicated-chip game systems, its major drawback was lack of other games to play. Boredom set in within a year. But what thrill when I first played it! /museum/magnavox-odyssey-100 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-200 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-2000 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-400 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-500 /software/hockey-621 /software/smash-619 /software/tennis-620 1281 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230614011037/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1281 2023-06-14

After both Atari and Magnavox released their first pong systems (Odyssey 100, Odyssey 200, Pong) in 1975, Magnavox continued with the Odyssey 300 in 1976, which was one of the first system to use a single game chip containing the major circuitry of a PONG system. This system was Magnavox' answer to Coleco Telstar, the first game to use the GI AY-3-8500 chip.

From the manual:
"Odyssey 300 literally turns your TV screen into a challenging electronic playground, and it attaches to any size or brand... black and white or color.
Odyssey 300 features games of Hockey, Tennis and Smash, and as an extra challenge has switchable skill levels of Novice, Intermediate and Expert which automatically adjusts the player size, speed of the ball and deflection of the ball."