Still in 1975, Magnavox appear with bigger improved version of the Magnavox Odyssey 100: the Magnavox Odyssey 200. It was same as the Magnavox Odyssey 100 but with two added chips from Texas Instruments, with addition of a third game: SMASH and some on-screen scoring. The Magnavox Odyssey 200 could be played by 2 or 4 players (first video game system to offer this), and displayed actual basic on-screen scoring using tiny rectangles (it still had the two artificial cursors to store the scores). Each time a player marked a point, his white rectangle would about-face on the right. The champ was obiviously the first whose rectangle would reach the rightmost position on the screen. Although the scores were not yet digital, the Magnavox Odyssey 200 remained added advanced than the last home version of Atari PONG because it played three alternate games for two or four players.
1975 marked as a starting of a continued history. Both Atari and Magnavox release their video games systems,
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