website/content/museum/magnavox-odyssey-200.md

title, categories, origins, years, cpus, params

title	categories	origins	years	cpus	params
MAGNAVOX Odyssey 200	Pongs	U.S.A.	1975	discrete components	name image logo company company_name specs tabs forum_thread photos adverts links docs related software oc_id source Odyssey 200 /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey200_2s.jpg /media/museum/logos/magnavox_odyssey200_logo.gif /companies/magnavox MAGNAVOX label value NAME Odyssey 200 label value MANUFACTURER Magnavox label value ORIGIN U.S.A. label value YEAR 1975 label value BUILT IN LANGUAGE tennis, hockey, smash label value KEYBOARD 3 knobs for each player (vertical movements, horizontal movements, english effect) label value CPU discrete components + Texas Instruments chips label value SPEED none label value CO-PROCESSOR game selection (A, B or C), number of players (2 or 4), channel selection (3 or 4), soundf (ON/OFF), power ON/OFF label value RAM on screen (small rectangles), on system case (numbered slider) label value COLORS Black & white label value SOUND Built-in speaker label value I/O PORTS RF TV video output label value OS 6 x C cell batteries label value POWER SUPPLY 9V AC external PSU label value PERIPHERALS no photos adverts software links docs 1236 title subtitle text image ODYSSEY 200 Thanks to [www.pong-story.com](http://www.pong-story.com) for this picture /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey200_2.jpg title subtitle text image PHILIPS ODYSSEY 200 This is the Philips model released in Europe. /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey200_1.jpg title subtitle text image BOX /media/museum/photos/magnavox_odyssey200_box_1.jpg title subtitle text image GERMAN ADVERT German advert for the Philips Odyssey 200 model. Thanks to [Dieter Koening](http://www.dieterkoenig.at/ccc/) for this picture /media/museum/pubs/magnavox_odyssey200_german-pub_1.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 200 USER MANUAL null /media/museum/docs/couvs/odyssey200_manual.jpg **ODYSSEY 200 USER MANUAL**\ written by Magnavox  compiled/archived by Unknown\  type of document : ZIP\  size : 200 KB\  source : www.old-computers.com /museum/magnavox-odyssey-100 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-2000 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-300 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-400 /museum/magnavox-odyssey-500 /software/hockey-389 /software/smash /software/tennis-388 1270 url date https://web.archive.org/web/20230614011041/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=1270 2023-06-14

In 1975, Magnavox released an improved version of the Odyssey 100: the Odyssey 200. It was same as the Odyssey 100 but with two additional chips from Texas Instruments, which added a third game called SMASH and some on-screen scoring.

The Odyssey 200 could be played by two or four players (first system to offer this feature), and displayed very basic on-screen scoring using small rectangles (it still had the two plastic cursors to record the scores). Each time a player marked a point, his white rectangle would shift on the right. The winner was obviously the first whose rectangle would reach the rightmost position on the screen (15 points).

Although the scores were not yet digital, the Odyssey 200 remained more advanced than the first home version of Atari PONG because it played three different games for two or four players.

---

Source: www.pong-story.com