SSG Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 Has anyone ever noticed that the Odyssey/Videopac community is very tiny compared to the Intellivison and Colecovision communities. I wonder if it is because the console is just not that popular among gamers or that the game library just didn't have enough hard hitting games as the others? Also, ever notice that there is alot of "brotherhoods" on this website also? It seems that just about every console that has its own forum has a brotherhood. Are we just not a tight community or is there really a small amount of us? Post what you think below! I am interested in all opinions. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I just bought my Odyssey 2 this past September. The console which is in great shape but the hardwired controllers needed to be replaced and I did, plus 13 games for $40! I really enjoy it and have been playing KC Munchkin, KC's Krazy Chase, UFO, and Alien Invaders Plus for hours. Should definetley be a brotherhood and I am down for it. One of the most underrated consoles that has a great underground fanbase today. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottyDont00 Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 I mentioned the O2/VP brotherhood previously.. I'm ready to get it going... My new shipment of homebrews from Revival studios will be here right around new years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flojomojo Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 There were never many Odyssey 2 players. I remember writing to game manufacturers like Parker Brothers and Activision asking them to make their games for the O2 back in the early 1980s. Predictably, they told me that as much as they liked the Odyssey, there weren't enough potential customers to make it profitable. The number of Odyssey players has likely gone down since then. I wish I still had those letters! If you called it a brotherhood AND sisterhood, you'd double your chances of finding other people to play with. Unfortunately, double nothing is still nothing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hyperboy Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 My first cart based console, I would absolutely join the Brotherhood! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 There were never many Odyssey 2 players. I remember writing to game manufacturers like Parker Brothers and Activision asking them to make their games for the O2 back in the early 1980s. Predictably, they told me that as much as they liked the Odyssey, there weren't enough potential customers to make it profitable. The number of Odyssey players has likely gone down since then. I wish I still had those letters! If you called it a brotherhood AND sisterhood, you'd double your chances of finding other people to play with. Unfortunately, double nothing is still nothing. Honestly I don't think we need a brotherhood. There are too many of them. Just look at peoples signatures. We need something unique since we all love this unique console. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 Another thing is. Why don't we open the group up to the Odyssey 1 and the Odyssey dedicated consoles? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boxpressed Posted December 15, 2015 Share Posted December 15, 2015 My take on console brotherhood from a while back. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/191778-wtb-protection-from-console-brotherhoods/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 15, 2015 Author Share Posted December 15, 2015 My take on console brotherhood from a while back. http://atariage.com/forums/topic/191778-wtb-protection-from-console-brotherhoods/ Nice thread. My intentions are not to start a brotherhood. Just a deadicated user group! Like I stated earlier there are allready to many brotherhoods on AA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 I have an Idea. We can come up with names on this thread then create a new thred with a poll and we can vote on the name! We will have some democracy Post your ideas below: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 What do you mean there aren't very many of us? http://www.videopac.nl/forum/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 What do you mean there aren't very many of us? http://www.videopac.nl/forum/ Compared to the intelly and colecovision forums we're quite small of a community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted December 16, 2015 Share Posted December 16, 2015 Well, I guess that's true when you compare it to the INTV forums, but there still are more than a few people who like to play it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 16, 2015 Author Share Posted December 16, 2015 Well, I guess that's true when you compare it to the INTV forums, but there still are more than a few people who like to play it. Yeah. I can see that. It just seems that there is an overall more active amount of posters on the Intelly, and coleco forums compared to this one. I was trying to create some hype and make things here a little more active than they are. Of course I could always just move to a dedicated forum website for this stuff. It is just a little convenient for this forum to be here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+atari2600land Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 No, don't do that, we need more people who enjoy the Odyssey 2 on this forum as well. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 17, 2015 Author Share Posted December 17, 2015 No, don't do that, we need more people who enjoy the Odyssey 2 on this forum as well. So what could we do to make this forum a bit more active? I don't think having a "brotherhood" would help, but something more open like a User group or something. Beyond that idea we could try a High Score Club type ordeal? I'm open to any ideas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timdu Posted December 17, 2015 Share Posted December 17, 2015 Earlier in the year, AA member REVOLUTIONIKA tried to rally and get a web site going : http://www.odysseyrevolution.com/ It sort of fizzled out... never really got going... On the other hand, His Intellivision web site is active and that seems to be his focus... http://www.intellivisionrevolution.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+pboland Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I think the OD2 community is growing (at least in the states). I know back in the day that OD2 was out shined by the 2600, but there was still a large installed base at the time. I think that is why it's easy to find OD2 stuff on ebay. People like to say it wasn't popular, but if it was as rare as people make it out to be, you wouldn't be able to buy that stuff so easily. Heck, growing up I remember at least two other households that had an OD2 besides us and I only knew of one Atari 2600 household at the time (circa 1979/80). Of course that's right before the atari 2600 really took off because of Space Invaders. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 18, 2015 Author Share Posted December 18, 2015 (edited) I think the safest route if we decide do a "brotherhood" is to just say. "Member of the O2/VP Community". It is a neutral name I think all O2/VP users can agree on. Unless someone has another idea? (Edited to fix spelling errors.) Edited December 18, 2015 by SonicSageGamer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Northcoastgamer Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 I've had my Odyssey 1 & 2 for decades, been looking forward to an O2 HSC for awhile now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nutsy Doodleheimer Posted December 18, 2015 Share Posted December 18, 2015 Totally agree on doing an O2 High Score club. And it will provide a greater challenge as you have one life in most of the games. I am so up for this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 19, 2015 Author Share Posted December 19, 2015 I've had my Odyssey 1 & 2 for decades, been looking forward to an O2 HSC for awhile now. Totally agree on doing an O2 High Score club. And it will provide a greater challenge as you have one life in most of the games. I am so up for this. So if you look back into the older threads in this forum you can see that there once was a O2 HSC but it failed. I think our main challenge is going to be trying to figure out what games the majority of us have (Even though we can use emulators). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtshark7 Posted December 26, 2015 Share Posted December 26, 2015 I would love to be a part of a Odyssey 2 'brotherhood ' but I have no idea what they necessarily do exactly. I been thinking of starting an Odyssey 2 gaming group on Facebook. I would have to gauge interest so it doesn't die out. Also try and come up with way to keep it fresh and interesting. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSG Posted December 26, 2015 Author Share Posted December 26, 2015 I would love to be a part of a Odyssey 2 'brotherhood ' but I have no idea what they necessarily do exactly. I been thinking of starting an Odyssey 2 gaming group on Facebook. I would have to gauge interest so it doesn't die out. Also try and come up with way to keep it fresh and interesting. Sent from my SM-G900V using Tapatalk Post the Link here. You know what they say. If you build it, they will come! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seob Posted December 30, 2015 Share Posted December 30, 2015 Many people seem to forget that the o2 was on par with the 2600 the first 2 years. Games on the 2600 didn't look that more better then the o2 games did. But after these first years, and after the massive support of third party developers things took of on the 2600 side. Resulting in better looking games, because of better programming. I think that if the o2 had had the same support form other developers, it to would have had better looking games, just look at the graphics of revival studio games to see what the o2 is capable of. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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