Hi folks,
As i am in touch with Nicholas Broetzman (long time collector friend) these days, he was telling me that Zack Horton (OdysseyNow) has a better picture of the unreleased "Ski Festival" and will eventually release it in a future pack, but also we were talking about the unreleased Odyssey model, the YD7001.
I don't know if some of you remembers that i did slightly talked about it here on this blog but kept this information for another time, well since i fell awful to suspend the OdySim, it is now finally time to reveal this historical information. I did tell that the picture of this model was already floating around the web for quite some years now (at least 15 years) but NOBODY suspected that this picture was indeed the unknown unreleased YD7001 model:
Even Mr.Baer himself think he didn't knew about this unreleased model as it is also figured in his book: "Videogames: in the beginning"on page.76 (see fig.68). If he knew, why he haven't talked about it in his book ? Same as David Winter Pong-Story website (https://www.pong-story.com/odypics.htm#ody1), if you check out the link, it's the first picture showed. No mention that it's was the YD7001 model.
You can also add these websites:
* https://bamgameonline.com/the-magnavox-odyssey/
* https://thedoteaters.com/?attachement_id=9322
* https://thenvm.org/objects/magnavox-odyssey/
Heck...even the National Videogame Museum which is run by Joe Santulli, John Hardi & Sean Kelly has no mention that the picture is in fact the YD7001.
Well, even myself didn't know about the YD7001 before 2012 and i have to thanks Nicholas Broetzman has he sent me these pictures:
Yes! You are seeing right! Magnavox was going to sell two models of the Odyssey! The one on the top is the YD7001 which was going to be sold at the price of $69.95 and the one on the bottom is the "Deluxe" version (aka the ITL200) and was going t be sold at the price of $99.95.
The YD7001 itself is the same thing as the ITL200 but instead of white, it was beige and the top of it was brown instead of black. Same as both controllers, they are beige and the cords are about half the length. Also, the YD7001 came with 4 game cards instead of six and came with overlays and accessories for 7 games: Table Tennis, Tennis, Hockey, Submarine, Cat and Mouse, Analogic and Simon Says.
Games available separately for the YD7001 were:
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- Football (YD7124) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 3-4
- Ski Festival (YD7172) - HAS CART cart 2 (and 2 diff. overlays)
- Haunted House (YD7173) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 4
- Roulette (YD7174) - HAS CART cart 6
- States (YD7301) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 6
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- Baseball (ITL700) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 3
- Wipeout! (ITL800) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 5
- Fun Zoo (ITL900) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 2
- Interplanetary Voyage (YD7175) - HAS CART cart 12
- Brain Wave (YD7176) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 3
- W.I.N. (YD7302) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 4
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And games NOT available for the YD7001 were:
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- Handball (ITL701) - HAS CART cart 8
- Volleyball (ITL702) - HAS CART cart 7
- Invasion (ITL801) - NO CART INCLUDED cart 4-5-6
- Basketball (YD7123) - HAS CART cart 3
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So a HUGE thanks goes to Nicholas Broetzman for sending me the 3 pictures of the ad/flyer. It's people like him (as many others) that we are preserving the history of video games! ;)
