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Subject: Odyssey (computer-game) production terminated
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Date: Fri, 30-Mar-84 01:20:19 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar 30 01:20:19 1984
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From:  Werner Uhrig <CMP.WERNER@UTEXAS-20.ARPA>

[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. ]
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