Mark Plays Videopac / Odyssey 2 part 01 of 02

Part 01 of 02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oswY4TmuVQ

The Philips Videopac+ G7400 console was a rare beast, it was released in very limited quantities in 1983 but only in Europa. An American release was planned named the Odyssey³ Command Center but it never so the light of day.

The G7400 console could play all Videopac / Odyssey2 games out there. Three types of games exist. The original G7000 videogames, the plus versions sporting an additional high-resolution background which would only be visible on the G7400. And finally the special G7400 only games with high-resolution graphics very reminiscent of Teletext, BBC Micro or ZX Spectum.

Here I am playing the rare G7400 through my video-grabber with some of my favourite games whilst I comment on the gameplay etc.
Attack of the Timelord (Plus) / Terrahawks (Videopac 51)
Demon Attack
Freedom Fighters (Plus) / Freedom Fighters (Videopac 39)
Frogger
KC Munchkin / Happelaar (Videopac 38)
KC Munchkin Pacman-hack

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[aculturemind]

Man, reading about it, I thought it would've been a real step above the Odyssey2. Freedom Fighters they just added a background. Same game, otherwise. My two Odyssey2 faves were Pick Axe Pete and UFO! . I could play those forever. Munchkin was okay, though I preferred KC's Crazy Chase.

[markvergeer]

@aculturemind There are only a handfull 100% plus games with hires graphics. Some plussed regular games look very nice others are better just plain. KCChase is an excellent game - more creative than the KCMUnchkin one. Still I am a sucker for the latter. Thanks for the feedback!

[dallase1]

Attack of the Time Lords? Is that why Doctor Who is the last Time Lord because all the other Time Lords killed each other off in the wars?

[markvergeer]

LOL, it all comes together. Nice association. Thanks for responding.

[dallase1]

Is attack of the Time Loards the unofficial Honeymooners in space video game? The moon looks like the moon in the beginning of the old TV show the Honeymooners staring Jackie Gleason.

[markvergeer]

Could very well have been the inspiration - we could ask the creator of the game.

[Diskoboy1974]

I thought the G7400/Odyssey 3 was supposed to have built in voice support.

[deliciousdazmo]

#UN#, love your videos, I subscribed :) . My puppets want to say hello.

[atombat]

Im looking forward to getting a G7000, the games look pretty funky :)

[dallase1]

I found a picture of the system and it looks like the Keyboard was even cheaper then the Odyssey 2's Keyboard but added a row of keys above the number keys.

Also it seems they kept those lousy bulky uncomfortable joysticks with those notches that the joystick gets hug up in and makes it hard to play maze games