odyssey

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Named the Magnavox Odyssey, the console setup included translucent overlays that players stuck on the TV screen to create colorful game boards, such as table tennis, roulette and haunted house.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

With six game cartridges and plastic overlays, the Odyssey setup offered 12 different games when it first retailed for $100—or about $770 in today’s dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 22, 2026

It was designed by another of the Queen's couturiers, Hardy Amies, who later went on to create space-age get-ups for Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film, A Space Odyssey.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

The return of Odyssey Sims, who missed time for personal reasons, and Julie Allemand, fresh off a EuroBasket championship, has brought renewed optimism.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 1, 2025

She’d take the bald-headed witches who turn children into mice—and The Odyssey, with the Cyclops and the enchantress who transforms his warriors into pigs.

From "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke