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The Odyssey was released in April 1972 for $100, and was the first home console of any kind, predating ''[[Pong]]''. It was also the first cartridge-based console, but there's a catch: The cartridges don't contain games, they just rearrange the circuitry inside the console to vary the game. And it was the first to have a light gun, but you don't aim the gun at any part of the screen, you just aim it at the screen (or any other light source).
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Production ended in 1975, and it was replaced by the Odyssey 100, which used chips and had sound, but had no cartridges and played only two games: tennis and hockey. Later Odysseys added a game or two, color graphics, and on-screen scoring. These used a combination of discrete circuits and a few chips, and were obsolete after 1976, when General Instruments released the AY-3-8500 ''Pong''-on-a-chip.
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=== Specifications
== Processor ==
* Discrete circuits
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* Later models: Some sort of sound
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=== Games
The cartridges could remove some of the boxes, adjust their size and position, and change their behavior (i.e., turn collision detection on or off). Overlays added background graphics. Each game was a combination of one (or more) cartridge and overlay.
* ''Analogic''
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