Would it be safe to retrobright my 1972 Magnavox Odyssey by leaving its cover (no insides just the cover) in the sun for a while? Kinda new so I would appreciate tips if it is possible, too. My odyssey isn’t in the best condition color-wise so I’d like to restore it too is former glory. Thanks!

⚠️SOLVED ⚠️Before I state the issue, I’d like to say that I’m a complete noob at this point.

My overlays for my Odyssey won’t stick to my CRT for some reason. I tried many, none stick, is this a TV problem or an overlay problem. Thanks

Hello all

I primarily collect Magnavox odyssey and am looking for rarer foreign systems if anyone had one for sale! Also any US or foreign advertising (I have some).

Thanks for anyone who has anything Im looking for:

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I was reading an article on the history of skateboarding video games, and the article had stated the first skateboard game was on the Magnavox Odyssey. It was called Skateboard Party. However, I can not find anything on this game. Does anyone know any information regarding the game?

Finally got one. From reading around, the blak has a run 1, 1a, 1b, and 2. Why does mine read 11? Both inside and the bottom read this.

On my odyssey, which is a run 1 blak, whenever the left player presses reset the ballspeeds to near screen center very quickly and serves from there when reset is pressed. Right reset works as expected, does anybody know what might be causing this? It makes games like submarine quite challenging for the attacker.

I just got my Odyssey 2, but I'm having trouble hooking it up. It's the earlier model with the box and the strange video connector. I tried replacing it with an rca cable and plugging it into the rf port like I do with my Atari 2600, but I don't get anything on the screen and no audio. My main tv is a ~2008 Polaroid that Atari games show up perfectly on, my other tv is much newer and Atari games don't work on it but the odyssey 2 makes garbled nonsense so at least it's alive. I can add pictures if you want, please help.

Anyone ever had an odyssey 500 where everything works except smash the ball disappears and never comes back after the first point?

I picked up an original Odyssey tonight, has almost everything included. Missing is one of the two styrofoam layers, but has all the pieces. Most important missing is the Game Cord, sigh. Doing a bit of searching I see that it is a proprietary connector. While I have both an Odyssey 2 and an Odyssey 300, both of their pin-style plugs go direct into the console, and I don't think I'd want to pull that off since both work great.

I see a link to using a paper clip, which certainly is odd, but I don't have a spare end plug to try. I see some other soldering mods that folks have done as well.

Does anyone have updated or more modern advice, as most of the advice seems to be 5+ years old? None of the old eBay links seem to work much any more, and I'd love to try getting the console hooked up to my TV.

Hi!

I'm interested in the differences between the various game cards for Odyssey. Particularly, when I try to search for all the games, I find that many of the concepts for the games are described, but given that different games share cards, I'm wondering what each card ACTUALLY does - for example, the basic Table Tennis game on Card 1 clearly has a dot that moves back and forth and bounces off the dots controlled by the players. But then the Tennis game, which I would think would have the same behavior, uses Card 3. So how do Card 1 and Card 3 make the Odyssey behave differently? Meanwhile, Analogic also uses Card 3, but there's no ball to bounce. It seems like Analogic and Simon Says would have the same behavior where players just control the two dots. I think I'm missing something, so I'd love to read a description of how each card behaves. Is that out there anywhere?

I came upon a working Odyssey in almost amazing condition. It has all of its components and the box has respectable wear and tear.

It still has the manual and I’m pretty sure it may have still had the batteries in it from the 70’s which It has some corrosion around the battery springs but still works completely.

Does anyone know what I could do with it? Can I sell it for a decent price? Or do I just hold on to it until it’s museum worthy?