19th January 2014, 9:23 AM
That was 5 minutes long, so I suspect it wasn't a standard commercial to be found during regular TV show intermission.
Sure was interesting. It looked like the girl was having more fun than the boy though :D. Also, fun AND excitement?! I would have settled for one, but it has both!
I do have to say this. It is hard to see the Odyssey as a true console. It was the first home video game system, but it didn't have a CPU. All the cartridges did was slightly alter the behavior of the glowing dots. For the most part, those dots were done internally. I will give it credit for that light gun though. While it was still using the system's built in game code with a slight alteration, it actually was still a functional light gun. It is a piece of history, but it wasn't until the Atari 2600 that we got a true turing complete CPU that do any behavior the system had memory to support.
Sure was interesting. It looked like the girl was having more fun than the boy though :D. Also, fun AND excitement?! I would have settled for one, but it has both!
I do have to say this. It is hard to see the Odyssey as a true console. It was the first home video game system, but it didn't have a CPU. All the cartridges did was slightly alter the behavior of the glowing dots. For the most part, those dots were done internally. I will give it credit for that light gun though. While it was still using the system's built in game code with a slight alteration, it actually was still a functional light gun. It is a piece of history, but it wasn't until the Atari 2600 that we got a true turing complete CPU that do any behavior the system had memory to support.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)