The Philips G7000 was known worldwide as it followed in the footsteps of the Atari 2600 and the Fairchild F. In USA was known as the Magnavox Odyssey 2 (or Odyssey 2) and in 1983 the Brazilian branch of Philips released it as the ‘Odyssey’ where it became more popular than it ever did in the USA; Tournaments were even held for popular games like “Videopac 44′ – ‘KC’s Crazy Chase’. Television commercials for most of the videopacs games were made such as this Freedom fighters clip.
It was called a ‘Videopac Computer’ as the cartridges were known as ‘Videopacs’ although in France they were called ‘Jolpacs’ and as a ‘Computer’ as it had a fully Aplhanumerical Membraine Keyboard which no other console had at the time. The console used a 8048 intel processor and had 2kb of Ram, 4kb of Rom, although the cartridges only used 2k Roms.
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