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From: werner@ut-ngp.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.video
Subject: Odyssey production stopped
Message-ID: <430@ut-ngp.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Mar-84 06:52:38 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 24 06:52:38 1984
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[from the business section of the local paper of March 22]

	Production of Odyssey, a pioneer of home video-game systems
	has been discontinued.  The Odyssey division of Knoxville-based
	NAP Consumer Electronics Corp., which began marketing home video
        games in 1971, will be dissolved because of "general market
        conditions," a NAP representative said.  Odyssey orders will be
        filled as long as supplies last, probably into early 1985.

[ expect to see them at close-out prices soon.  The machine was once
  considered to have great growth capabilities, having a membrane-keyboard
  when noone else had anything similar.  Being of early '70s design, I have
  a lot of respect for the machine, which I just recently acquired (a gift).
  And at close-out prices, it will make a nice addition to any collection
  of "has-beens" and "once-state-of-the-art".   I'll be looking for those
  sales, voice synthesizer and all. ]