Fair enough point, Steve.

Since I've never owned/played/seen 'out in the wild' any of RCA's or Fairchild's machines, I appreciated the novelty of the Odyssey 2!

It also felt neat to own something designed by Ralph Baer, although I've owned various Simons over the years.

I do/feel similarly with/about the Axlon robots designed by Nolan Bushnell that I own{Petsters}!

The closest I've came to the Studio II/Channel F would be when I came across Atari's home version of Video Pinball.


Considering I didn't have the funds at the time/already have the arcade version, I passed on it!

I enjoyed the VCS when I owned a couple, but never as deeply as either the ColecoVision or NES.

I respect their statuses as the pioneers of the hobby/industry, but just can't get into them fully.

Thanks for the heads-up on some of the Odyssey2's "killer aps", maybe I'll come across another someday!

Although games like River Raid/H.E.R.O./Kaboom/etc. were awesome to play, they just didn't give me "the itch" to commit to the 2600's library.