This week on RetroNuts, the keyboard is the key to a good podcast.

Hello and welcome again to another exciting episode of RetroNuts. I'm your host, Kevin

Bunch and this week we are going to be talking about the great silver beast of the late 70s and early 80s,

the Magnavox Odyssey 2 delightful little platform put out by Magnavox in the U.S. and Philips

in other parts of the world and I brought with me some great experts who also have a great

amount of adoration for this interesting little machine. I guess that really little is it pretty chunky.

It's a chunky boy. It's a fat bear. It certainly is. It's a chunky boy.

It sure is. So who do we have joining us from the middle of the heat dome?

I'm Earl Green. You may or may not know me as the guy behind phosphor dot fossils whether that means

the websites, the DVDs that are long out of print and they're now on YouTube and I also do YouTube

videos where I will play older games for about 10, 12, 15 minutes somewhere in there kind of give

the history of them and you know try not to suck at the game while I am imparting that information.

Sometimes it's just kind of a shut up and drive situation. And who else do we have with us?

I am Jared Petty from Limited Run Games, the top 100 games podcast a few other places and I'm

here because we're talking about the Odyssey 2 which is a weird and strangely radical hardware

design that's just so broken and fantastic that I can't help but be interested in it.

I feel very lucky to be here today. I never quite thought we'd actually get all the way to

Odyssey 2 on RetroNots yet here a few hundred episodes later we are and I'm thrilled.

It's time is now. So I wanted to go around and ask everyone what their experiences are with the

Odyssey 2 and how they came to it and why they're interested in it and I guess you know Jared we

can start with you since you were just typing it up real quick. Yeah so I first encountered the

Odyssey 2 in the early 1980s along with them the launch of other video game paraphernalia that

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