Company | Philips |
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Type | Video games |
Year | 1979 |
CPU | Intel 8048 microcontroller |
Speed | 1.79 MHz |
RAM | 64 bytes (8048 internal RAM) + 128 bytes |
ROM | 1 KB (system BIOS) |
Media | cartridge |
Controllers | Two 8-directions self-centered joysticks with fire button |
Graphic modes | 154 x 100 |
Colors | 12 |
Sound | Beeper |
The Magnavox Odyssey², known in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil as the Philips Odyssey, in the United States as the Magnavox Odyssey² and the Philips Odyssey², and also by many other names, is a video game console released in 1978.
In the early 1970s, Magnavox was an innovator in the home video game industry. They succeeded in bringing the first home video game system to market, the Odyssey, which was quickly followed by a number of later models, each with a few technological improvements. In 1978 Magnavox, now a subsidiary of North American Philips, released the Odyssey², their new second-generation video game console.
More than 60 games were released to this system.