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.
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NAME
Odyssey 200
MANUFACTURER
Magnavox
ORIGIN
U.S.A.
YEAR
1975
BUILT IN GAMES
tennis, hockey, smash
CONTROLLERS
3 knobs for each player (vertical movements, horizontal movements, english effect)
CPU
discrete components + Texas Instruments chips
BUTTONS
none
SWITCHES
game selection (A, B or C), number of players (2 or 4), channel selection (3 or 4), soundf (ON/OFF), power ON/OFF
SCORE
on screen (small rectangles), on system case (numbered slider)
