Odyssey²

- Speedway! is a vertical scrolling racing game against the clock. The player controls the car with the joystick, pushing up to accelerate it (the longer, the faster), left and right to control direction and down to break. The faster the car goes, the higher the score. Collisions halt the score, but not the clock. The player has two minutes to run,...

OUT OF THIS WORLD! (Odyssey2 Reentry Basic Interstellar Training Simulator) The mother ship orbits the planets as you and your opponent maneuver your space landers to the surface. Fire your thrusters intermittently to conserve your fuel. You'll need it to blast off and link up with the mother ship as it changes speed and direction. Three different...

- Matchmaker! (selected by pressing "1") is a regular Memory game. A matrix with 20 letters appears on the screen and the player has to find pairs of symbols hidden by the letters. Two counters will be displayed: time and number of matches. In two players mode (selected by pressing "2"), the players share the matrix and the one who makes more match...

MATH-A-MAGIC! Makes addition, subtraction, multiplication and division fun to practice! It even presents primary level algebraic challenges! The computer presents the problems and evaluates the answers! It even sings out with a musical cheer for every ten correct solutions! Digital scoring! Full sync-sound action! One or more players. ECHO! The...

Hockey!: five field players and one goalkeeper are displayed at each side of the field. The player closest to the puck will be displayed holding the hockey stick and will be controlled by using the joystick. The goalkeeper will follow his movements. Making body contact will immobilize the players, and they can be separated by using the directional...

BOWLING! A true electronic simulation! You go straight for the pins--or hook from either side of the alley! but once you commit to the hook--you're on the hook! There's no going back. Digital scoring! Sync-sound action! Two to four players. (Lanes change color to let you know when it's your turn.) BASKETBALL! For ultimate realism, there's even a...

BLOCKOUT! You have ninety seconds to break through a fourth dimensional barricade--but you have to outwit electronic demons who have the power to stop you cold! BREAKDOWN! You have one minute to bust all the blocks on the screen--but you better be quick--because electronic demons keep putting them back. Challenge another player--or just try to...

ARMORED ENCOUNTER! An astonishingly realistic simulation of armoured warfare! The electronic tanks not only look like tanks and sound like tanks--you even control them like tanks! (You turn a car by turning the front wheels. You turn a tank by slowing one tread and speeding up the other.) This careful attention to real life detail even extends to t...

A Labyrinth Game is exactly what the title defines. The player has to move a pawn from the left side of a labyrinth to the exit on the right side. Each match consists in a series of 10 and the labyrinth always changes when starting a new game. The pawn is controlled with the joystick and the "action" makes it move faster. There are 16 possible vari...

Turtles, also known as Turpin, puts you into the role of the maternalistic turtle who tries to save the kidturtles from a bunch of bad bugs (or, in some versions, bad cars). It takes place in a Pacman-esque labyrinth, with turtle boxes in the centre and corners of the screen. Run into a box to release the turtle kid inside. Opening a box makes a li...

In Loony Balloon, the player controls a kid carrying a swaying balloon crossing a playground. To get out of the playground, he must reduce the balloon's sway, or it will burst when he crosses the exit. To do so, he must earn 50 points by playing in the various amusements of the playground. There are four kinds of amusements: a rocking horse, a s...

Air Battle is a flight simulator set in the World War I era. The player controls a biplane from an inside-the-cockpit perspective. The player starts the game with the plane on ground. The plane will start moving and a flashing light will indicate when the plane has achieved enough speed to take-off. Once in the air, the player must try to take d...

In Chinese Logic the player has to move a sequence of numbers (9 to 0) from the point A of a pattern of lines to point D (or B in the variations). The numbers must be placed in point D in the same descending order. There are two other points to which the numbers can be moved, B and C. If one or more numbers are parked in one of the points, the p...

4 in 1 Row is a translation of the Connect Four board game. Two players (Pussycat and Hounddog) take turns dropping colored (red or green) discs in an eight-column six-row grid. The object is to place 4 discs in a row, either vertically, horizontally or diagonally. An strategic indicator number on the right side of the screen, besides each name,...

Put yourself in Popeye's place. You've got a daffy girlfriend who goes by the name of Olive Oyl. Right now, she's got you running in circles, chasing hearts and notes all over the place. Then, there's that blubber-brain, Brutus, who's out to get you. While you're dashing around, he's taking shots to knock you overboard. And if that's not bad enough...

It's tough to be a frog! Life isn't all lazy days and lily pads--it abounds with dangers. Can you help Frogger survive some perils and spring him home to safety? First hop your frogs across a busy highway. Then cross a raging river to reach the safety of home. But your frogs will have to leap away from one danger after another before they're safe....

Demon Attack is an arcade action game with gameplay similar to Space Invaders. You control a laser cannon at the bottom of the screen, and need to destroy wave after wave of brightly colored demons. The demons bounce around the screen in bizarre patterns, and try to destroy your cannon with bombs or lasers. When you shoot a demon, it will be replac...

Type & Tell! lets the player type in a word or a message and then have the words spoken back to them by utilizing the Odyssey 2's voice module. Garble! - Players take turns typing in one letter at a time, The idea is to form sentences by just using the sounds the individual letters make. Sound Waves! - Players type in random letters trying to...

This game takes place in a time when knights were bold and castle crumbling was one of the most popular sports. In this Artillery clone, two players must try to destroy each other's castle with their catapults. By pressing any direction in the joystick, the player launches a boulder toward the opponent. The longer the stick is held, the farther...

The player has arrived at Vulcan Rock, an artificial planetoid defended by a laser-eyed space serpent and other minions of the evil Extra-Terrestrial Alliance. Now he must defend himself from them, as well as the volcano itself. Controlling his spaceship with the control stick and shooting laser blasts with the action button, the player must avo...

COMPUTER GOLF! A nine hole, par 36, electronic golf course for one to four players. Realistic electronic golfers hit long drives and fairway shots! They pitch and chip up to the green! Suddenly--the screen changes automatically to show a close-up of the green itself. Putt out--then go on to a new hole with a different layout and challenge! This is...

Keyboard Creations! lets the player type in a main message which will continually scroll across the screen. The game also lets the player set up an "alarm" message which can pop up every 30 seconds. The player can also set a digital clock to keep track of time. The instruction manual suggests the following games that can be played: Movie Madn...

Pachinko! is based on the Japanese gaming device of the same name. The players are shown right below a giant Pachinko game. Five cups are placed across the screen, with two rotors, one at each side, and the Magic Mountain in the middle. The object of the game is to bounce the balls inside the cups to earn points. Each player has an energizer, used...

P.T. Barnum's Acrobats! is another variant of Bally Midway's 1978 arcade game Clowns. Three rows of colored balloons are displayed at the top of the screen, moving back and forward: a blue, a yellow and a red row. The players control two acrobats jumping over a teeter, moving it in order to avoid the acrobats from crashing into the ground. Once...

In this sequel to K.C. Munchkin!, our hero confronts the dreaded tree-eating Dratapillars of Venus! The player controls K.C. in a top-down maze. K.C. must defeat Dratapillar, a multicolored centipede, by eating each of its round segments from the rear, avoiding to touch its head. K.C. must also avoid Dratapillar's assistants, the Drats. When K.C...