My first Grail find. Odyssey 3 Prototoype

[vespertillio]

Posted: Sun Mar 16, 2003 8:04 pm Post subject: My first grail find.(Not Atari but unbelieveably cool)

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Woohoo, I'm usually looking for Atari stuff, but other gaming system interest me too and today I found somethng very cool. A prototype Odyssey3 system. Couple that with a protoype speech adapter and Power Lords cartridge and you can color me stoked. I just had to tell folks as I know absolutely nothing about this system. Excuse me now. I'm off to learn more and maybe even plug it in. Cheers all.

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

Photos, please. Not being skeptical or anything, just kinda drooling a bit. Thanks.

[wberdan]

trust me this dude is for real- he posted pictures over at atariage- prepare to drool

willie

[Tempest]

It's real. Finding one is certainly cause for celebration, but not unheard of. They're far more common than say a CX-2000 or Atari 2700.

Tempest

[vespertillio]

Rather than post them here I will just link to the ones over at AtariAge. Here ya go:

http://www.atariage.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22696

Thanks for looking. It's always cool to share great experiences like this.

Cheers all.

[Arcade Antics]

Thanks for looking. It's always cool to share great experiences like this.

Cheers all.

Very nice find!!! Congrats!

*goes to get drool cup for Earl*

[chocobokick]

Oh neat! I have a soft spot for Odyssey stuff since it was my first system. I've seen that power lords proto before though, we might have it around here somewhere.
I like all the colored "Odyssey" words

[Aswald]

You should contact o2william about this- he runs an Odyssey website!

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

I'm stunned. Not just stunted, as many have speculated.

[o2william]

I echo Earl's sentiment. :)

According to Classic Consoles Center, there are maybe 8-12 of these protos known to exist. I guess it's 9-13 now?

It proves two things... 1) there are still MAJOR finds waiting to be uncovered out there, and 2) I should have scoured Knoxville before moving out of the Midwest (since that's where most O3's have been found). Where'd this one turn up by the way?