4th May 2015, 11:16 PM
This is from ebay. I got some new Odyssey 2 games, for the first time in a bit over a year I believe. Shipping was only about $3.15, so this package was only a bit under $12 total, quite reasonable! That's part of why I got all four games. (I didn't previously have any of these four titles.)
Odyssey 2
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Armored Encounter! & Sub Chase! - complete, $1.25
Baseball! - complete, $1
Freedom Fighters! - complete, $5.50
Blackjack - complete, $1
The first two of these four games are two player only games, so I won't play them often, but I'm sure they'll come in handy sometime. Both have the expected great O2 covers, which is awesome of course; the O2 has some of the best boxart ever, on both its systems and games. Armered Encounter/Sub Chase is Magnavox's take on Atari's Combat. It's supposed to be okay, but not quite as good as Combat. Baseball is a basic baseball game. I like baseball, but these 2nd gen ones are really simple... still, it's definitely cool to have, to see what baseball games were like in the '70s; both of these games are from '78, so they're early releases for the system.
The latter two games are the main reasons I got these games, Freedom Fighters especially. Blackjack is a decent video blackjack game, though there are lots of other options for videogame blackjack of course. Still, it's a fine version of perhaps the only casino game I find tolerable (not that I've ever been to a real casino or ever gambled, I haven't).
But Freedom Fighters... Freedom Fighters is a 1982 release, and the O2 games from '81 to '83 are the system's best, and most complex, games. Freedom Fighters is a sort of Asteroids / Defender side-view shooter. You have a spaceship, and have to destroy enemy spaceships and missiles while picking up stranded spacemen. It's a pretty good game and plays great, as usual for the O2, with one issue" the controls are weird. One controller moves you around the screen, you see, while the other "scrolls" the screen to move you around in hyperspace. Now, this isn't Defender, there is no persistent level. Instead, you're just moving the enemies off screen and replacing them with a new random batch of enemies. It can be useful for if the screen is cluttered with bullets you want to get away from, though. Of course, switching between controllers is clumsy, I'm not used to it yet. (Oh, the button on either controller fires.) Otherwise though, this is a good game for sure. The game recommends two player co-op, but you'd really need to work together well to not get killed quickly... and as usual on the O2, you only get one life per game here, get hit once and your score resets. As with many of the games from '81 and later, you can enter your name, though it's pointless because that's lost when you turn the system off of course.
Anyway, Freedom Fighters was my most-wanted O2 game, so I'm quite happy to get it. The other stuff might be neat sometime, and it's always great to have more boxed O2 games because of how cool those boxes look, but Freedom Fighters is the main draw.
Odyssey 2
--
Armored Encounter! & Sub Chase! - complete, $1.25
Baseball! - complete, $1
Freedom Fighters! - complete, $5.50
Blackjack - complete, $1
The first two of these four games are two player only games, so I won't play them often, but I'm sure they'll come in handy sometime. Both have the expected great O2 covers, which is awesome of course; the O2 has some of the best boxart ever, on both its systems and games. Armered Encounter/Sub Chase is Magnavox's take on Atari's Combat. It's supposed to be okay, but not quite as good as Combat. Baseball is a basic baseball game. I like baseball, but these 2nd gen ones are really simple... still, it's definitely cool to have, to see what baseball games were like in the '70s; both of these games are from '78, so they're early releases for the system.
The latter two games are the main reasons I got these games, Freedom Fighters especially. Blackjack is a decent video blackjack game, though there are lots of other options for videogame blackjack of course. Still, it's a fine version of perhaps the only casino game I find tolerable (not that I've ever been to a real casino or ever gambled, I haven't).
But Freedom Fighters... Freedom Fighters is a 1982 release, and the O2 games from '81 to '83 are the system's best, and most complex, games. Freedom Fighters is a sort of Asteroids / Defender side-view shooter. You have a spaceship, and have to destroy enemy spaceships and missiles while picking up stranded spacemen. It's a pretty good game and plays great, as usual for the O2, with one issue" the controls are weird. One controller moves you around the screen, you see, while the other "scrolls" the screen to move you around in hyperspace. Now, this isn't Defender, there is no persistent level. Instead, you're just moving the enemies off screen and replacing them with a new random batch of enemies. It can be useful for if the screen is cluttered with bullets you want to get away from, though. Of course, switching between controllers is clumsy, I'm not used to it yet. (Oh, the button on either controller fires.) Otherwise though, this is a good game for sure. The game recommends two player co-op, but you'd really need to work together well to not get killed quickly... and as usual on the O2, you only get one life per game here, get hit once and your score resets. As with many of the games from '81 and later, you can enter your name, though it's pointless because that's lost when you turn the system off of course.
Anyway, Freedom Fighters was my most-wanted O2 game, so I'm quite happy to get it. The other stuff might be neat sometime, and it's always great to have more boxed O2 games because of how cool those boxes look, but Freedom Fighters is the main draw.