These reviews are great, though they show that the Odyssey really was quite primitive. It makes the 2600 look like a powerhouse which was really only designed to play Pong and Tank variants. It (supports two "player" objects and 2 "missile/ball" objects in hardware along with support for a symmetrical background - the rest being done by the underpowered processor.
But then that's the difference - the 2600 had a actual processor matching Von Neumann's stored program concept while the Odyssey is really only a finite state machine.
These reviews are great, though they show that the Odyssey really was quite primitive. It makes the 2600 look like a powerhouse which was really only designed to play Pong and Tank variants. It (supports two "player" objects and 2 "missile/ball" objects in hardware along with support for a symmetrical background - the rest being done by the underpowered processor.
But then that's the difference - the 2600 had a actual processor matching Von Neumann's stored program concept while the Odyssey is really only a finite state machine.