A new series of small videos, not really reviews but just some games I happen to really like. This is episodes 10 & 11.

Games: Various Magnavox Odyssey2 & 3, Philips Videopac G7000, G7400 games
Publisher: Philips / Magnavox
Platform: Magnavox Odyssey / Philips Videopac

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 saw 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.

http://www.videopac.org/ - home of Philips Videopac / Magnavox Odyssey

Philips 1982 Videopac 39 ‘Freedom fighters’On www.gp32x.com a news item stating the multi-platform Odyssey 2 (O2) emulator o2em was released for Gamepark's latest console. It doesn't feature an interface or ROM selector, but sample scripts are provided to allow you to run the games.I had some trouble getting it to run at first because my Windows notepad.exe program screwed up the scipts, introducing illegal non-Linux compliant carriage returns. One joystick is emulated with one of the action buttons as a fire button. The full keyboard is not emulated, but the shoulder buttons and the remaining 3 action buttons are configured to work as 0,1,2,3 and 4 in order to start the games. You need the Odyssey 2 BIOS to be able to use the emulator and the Videopac G7000, G7400 BIOSes are supported. I managed to get Timelord+ (Terrahawks), Killerbees+, KC Munchkin, KC's Krazy Chase and Freedom Fighters running perfectly with full sound and zero frameskip.