Chronogamer

They are really more appropriately called "4 paddle" games.

 

Hah! Exactly what I was talking about in the Odyssey 200 entry! Thanks for clearing that up!

 

And also thanks for confirming that the Odyssey 300's controls were more advanced than these (although you could only move the paddles vertically).

wow, that NEVER occurred to me, that the Odyssey 300's controls were not really 'advanced' as much as they were 'simplified' -- they only went up and down... an accurate statement would be "The Odyssey 300 system lacks horizontal controls for the paddle!"

 

Since Odyssey 300 was my first ever system, I thought of it as "only natural that one could just move the paddles up and down".

I wasn't referring to the paddle's movement, but rather the fact that you could change the ball's trajectory while using just your movement knobs, ditching that English control that I was never a big fan of. In that respect, the 300 was more elegant, and advanced. Of course the lack of horizontal controls was an over-simplification. Why couldn't they have both controls and the "advanced" deflection system? That's what surprised me in the 400 model, that they decided to go to the previous model instead of improving what they achieved on the 300.

 

On 9/30/2012 at 8:59 PM, Nelio said:

I wasn't referring to the paddle's movement, but rather the fact that you could change the ball's trajectory while using just your movement knobs, ditching that English control that I was never a big fan of. In that respect, the 300 was more elegant, and advanced. Of course the lack of horizontal controls was an over-simplification. Why couldn't they have both controls and the "advanced" deflection system? That's what surprised me in the 400 model, that they decided to go to the previous model instead of improving what they achieved on the 300.

oooh, I see what you mean now. Yeah, if I remember right, the 300 had the deflection angles depending on where you hit the ball with the paddle and I don't remember the 400 having it. I could be wrong. I have started again and these out (and hooking them up to a CRT (through an FM demodulator)) is possible again. (for a long time it was possible only using VCRs that were only good for this purpose. those are very dead now.)