Dastari Creel Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 So as I've gone about tracking my other White Whale, I happened to open my new book Phoenix IV by Leonard Herman. There on Page 58 I was confronted with this. It looks like there wasn't only one picture of the Odyssey 5000 out there. Makes me wonder where Mr Herman found this one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted July 19, 2017 Share Posted July 19, 2017 (edited) I got it from an ad sheet that David Winter sent me. By the way, what do you think of the book? I haven't received the hardcover edition yet. PS: It's actually on page 38 Edited July 19, 2017 by rolenta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastari Creel Posted July 20, 2017 Author Share Posted July 20, 2017 I got it from an ad sheet that David Winter sent me. By the way, what do you think of the book? I haven't received the hardcover edition yet. PS: It's actually on page 38 Yeah, that's a simple typo from writing this up so late at night. It's interesting because around these parts it was long thought that a single Odyssey 5000 image existed from a trade journal that Pboland dug up. It was black and white and fairly grainy. This is a pretty nice find. I haven't read the book too deeply yet. I just flicked through the pages. It's beautifully illustrated. I do have to say that your original version of Phoenix is what inspired me to start looking into video game history. You do such a fantastic overview of the whole subject, but there are so many rabbit holes to tunnel down and get really specific on the details of what happened and when. Out of curiosity, do you know where the Magnavox Odyssey systems were manufactured? I'm my own attempts to look into the history of video gaming I'd love to find people who worked on the original Odyssey whether that was in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, sales, etc. Anyway, appreciate the work that you do for the community. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastari Creel Posted July 21, 2017 Author Share Posted July 21, 2017 Since I don't want to host that particular picture on my own website, I'm going to upload it here, so eventually the picture from my first post will disappear. Just look at this one instead. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rolenta Posted July 22, 2017 Share Posted July 22, 2017 Sorry, can't help you with this one. David Winter may know. Out of curiosity, do you know where the Magnavox Odyssey systems were manufactured? I'm my own attempts to look into the history of video gaming I'd love to find people who worked on the original Odyssey whether that was in manufacturing, engineering, marketing, sales, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastari Creel Posted July 23, 2017 Author Share Posted July 23, 2017 Well, everyone, thanks to Leonard Herman we now have an actual Odyssey 5000 flier to drool over. I really cannot express enough gratitude for this. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BassGuitari Posted July 29, 2017 Share Posted July 29, 2017 Hot damn! Never thought something like that would ever turn up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onmode-ky Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 The Odyssey 5000 is outside the scope of my own plug-n-play games research, but this is a really remarkable find. There's a decent amount of info on the Internet about the rest of the Odyssey series, and there has been for some time, so it's kind of amazing that info on the 5000 has remained so deep in the underbrush, escaping the eyes of the Odyssey fan community for all these years. It's good to finally have a very solid look at what it was planned to be. onmode-ky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+pboland Posted July 31, 2017 Share Posted July 31, 2017 Well, everyone, thanks to Leonard Herman we now have an actual Odyssey 5000 flier to drool over. I really cannot express enough gratitude for this. 20270028_10159046467530203_41547530_n.jpg 20269804_10159046467905203_1938977985_n.jpg WOW! That is a awesome find. Now I want one more than ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dastari Creel Posted August 3, 2017 Author Share Posted August 3, 2017 The Odyssey 5000 is outside the scope of my own plug-n-play games research, but this is a really remarkable find. There's a decent amount of info on the Internet about the rest of the Odyssey series, and there has been for some time, so it's kind of amazing that info on the 5000 has remained so deep in the underbrush, escaping the eyes of the Odyssey fan community for all these years. It's good to finally have a very solid look at what it was planned to be. onmode-ky Except that, I don't think that there's really all that much information on the internet about the Odyssey series. There's a ton online about the original Odyssey, but the 100 - 5000 are fairly obscure. People have detailed their differences in playability, but their hardware specs, marketing history, or engineering history aren't well recorded. Even with the original Odyssey almost everything that we know comes from Ralph Baer, someone who was mostly shut out of the process once Magnavox got the license to design the system on their own. There is so very much left to learn about the history of this entire line. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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