Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Magnavox Odyssey 300 (1976)

Magnavox worn several Texas Instruments chips, each having a unique function (overlap detection, on-screen scoring, and many more). Atari had the gain of with the first chips often called "PONG in a chip," but the chips were not available to other manufacturers. Each different Atari system used a unique chip. Of course, a few discreet components interfaced the chip to the system (video modulator, player controls, etc). These chips replaced most of the numerous components used in analog and digital systems. Although Atari chips were a smart purpose, the idea of integrating complex circuits into a track piece was a mutual idea at that time, and other video game manufacturers would soon release their video game chips.

Magnavox continued with the Odyssey 300 in 1976, which was one of the first video game system to use a single game chip containing the major circuit of a PONG (after the 1975 Atari PONG video game system).

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