The Odyssey 100 was an analog video games system which used four Texas Instruments chips. It did not use cartridges and played just two games: TENNIS and HOCKEY. this video games was powered by six batteries, or by AC adaptor.The Odyssey 100 is a very basic system and don't have the features of the million-sellerPONG systems of the next years. The knobs were fixed: there were no detached controllersyet. There was no digital scoring: the players mark their scores via two little plastic cursors on the system. The serve couldn't be changed: it is automatic. This could looks strange compared to the last Atari PONG systems which already had digital on-screen scoring. In fact, this was aloof a question of technology. On-screen scoring would require appropriate added components, which would require addition of the cost of the system. Nevertheless, on-screen scoring was added in latest systems although the last attempts to use ancient graphics. The last Magnavox video game system to offer digital on-screen was the Odyssey 300 in 1976.
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