It's Critter Time!

mongreldog wrote: Sat Jul 12, 2025 1:06 pm oh also I'm queer.

Yes, hello!

Okay, the video game crash is coming, sales are low, and this console can't compete with Intellivision, Colecovision, or SG1000, let alone the gorilla that is Atari. Sure, we can cram more memory into the cartridge, but the Videopac hardware doesn't allow for more expansion than that. 🤔 What if we ...

Oh, I forgot. Magnavox marketing insisted on putting an exclamation point in every game title.

https://odyssey2.info/i/boxes/us_blockout-breakdown-f.webp

Speaking of the weird ideas that Videopac had... Okay, so now it's time to clone Breakout. Every console needs a bounce-ball-off-paddle game ...

Another "Challenger Series" game, also single player. UFO was Videopac's best game before K.C.Munchkin game along.

https://ralphiesfunhouse.com/cdn/shop/files/50022_front_cafee53b-00b4-47f8-a5ea-3340c24f38c1_640x.jpg?v=1751065165

When Nintendo marketed their games in the U.S., they chose a style ...

Hands down, the most famous game for the Vidoepac is K.C. Munchkin. Released a year before Atari converted Pac-Man for the 2600, and two years before Intellivision's Lock and Chase, the Videopac had an early start on the maze-chase genre. And a strong opening it was.

https://odyssey2.info/i/boxes ...

The Videopac fandom is dying! 😦

Before there was a Philips CDI ... Magnavox had an entry in the 8-bit era. Branded as "Odyssey²" in the US, for some reason, even though no one remembered their Odyssey Mark-I pong-machine from the 1960s. And as Videopac in Brazil in other countries.

https ...

Zavala is my tribute to the TI-99/4a, a computer that is far more famous for its legacy than for itself. Its Visual Display Processor (VDP) would live on in the Colecovision and MSX, and thus would later define how Sega would design their own game consoles. The AGY sound-chip design went on to ...

Nexus of Torment was made in the tradition of porting obscure console games to DOS. I am a simp for hit-scan weapons in low-rez 2-D.

https://xinjinmeng.itch.io/nexus-of-torment

Meian Metric was my first shoot-em-up. Again, I wanted to invoke a stark minimalism. I learned a lot while making this and applied that to my next game.

https://xinjinmeng.itch.io/meian-mandate-01157