Odyssey

With the mad craze to buy these new video game systems, such as the Playstation 3, I can’t help but laugh and be nostalgic for a moment about my first video game system: The Odyssey. Have you ever even heard of it? I haven’t met many people who actually had this one, but from what I remember, the games were slim pickins. It must have been 1980 when my family got this one.

The Atari 2600 and the Intellivision were classics too, but the Odyssey was simply awful! Just look at the console! Instead of Pac-Man, they had a cheesy version of it called “K.C. Munchkin”. Check out this great commerical for it…What a Pac-Man rip off!

The glorious, and ultimately most dorky days of my life, occurred when I got the 8-bit Sega Master System in 7th grade. This was Nintendo’s rival, and I chose this over the Nintendo…on purpose. I’m still trying to figure out why, but I delved into those role playing games as if my own life depended on it.

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