CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA (03/30/84)
From: Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>
[from the business section of the local paper of March 22]
Production of Odyssey, a pioneer of home video-game systems
has been discontinued. The Odyssey division of Knoxville-based
NAP Consumer Electronics Corp., which began marketing home video
games in 1971, will be dissolved because of "general market
conditions," a NAP representative said. Odyssey orders will be
filled as long as supplies last, probably into early 1985.
[ expect to see them at close-out prices soon. The machine was once
considered to have great growth capabilities, having a membrane-keyboard
when noone else had anything similar. Being of early '70s design, I have
a lot of respect for the machine, which I just recently acquired (a gift).
And at close-out prices, it will make a nice addition to any collection
of "has-beens" and "once-state-of-the-art". I'll be looking for those
sales, voice synthesizer and all. ]
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