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  1. Submarine

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    Submarine is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.5.
    • Genres: Simulator
    • Gameplay: Single player

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  2. Wipeout

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    Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. A racing game using both a track overlay and a game board; the game board keeps track of laps and the second player's dot along with the ball dot keeps time. Uses game card number 5.
    • Genres: Racing
    • Gameplay: Multiplayer
    • Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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  3. Dogfight!

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    One of four games packed with Shooting Gallery, a Magnavox Odyssey peripheral. One player moves their dot along a flight path on the overlay, while the other player attempts to shoot it with the light gun. Uses game card number 9.
    • Genres: Shooter

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  4. Empire

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    Empire is a 4X wargame created in 1972 by Peter Langston, taking its name from a Reed College board game of the same name. It was initially created by Langston in BASIC on an HP2000 minicomputer at Evergreen State College. When the host computer was retired, the source code to the game was lost. Subsequently, two other authors each independently wrote a new version of the game, both named Empire. In the decades since, numerous other versions of Empire have been developed for a wide variety of pl
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    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric and Text

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  5. Percepts

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    Percepts is the only known game that Magnavox gave away for free. When you purchased the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 you could get a free game from Magnavox if you registered the purchase by mailing the "free bonus game" coupon to them. Worked with Cartridge #2.

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  6. Roulette

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    Roulette is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.6 and uses play-chips, play money and a layout board with an overlay.
    • Gameplay: Single player

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  7. Handball

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    Extra games released for the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Came in a six pack with Wipeout, Volleyball, Fun Zoo, Invasion and Baseball. Could be bought separately. Worked with Cartridge #8.
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    • Gameplay: Single player

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  8. States

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    States is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.6 and uses 50 state cards with a study map.
    • Genres: Point-and-click
    • Gameplay: Single player

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  9. Tennis

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    Tennis is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.3 and uses an overlay.
    • Genres: Simulator

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  10. Hockey

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    Hockey is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.3 and uses a stadium scoreboard with an overlay.
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    • Gameplay: Single player

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  11. Haunted House

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    Haunted House is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.4 and uses clue cards with an overlay.
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    • Gameplay: Single player

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  12. Analogic

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    Analogic is one of the 12 original games that were shipped with the Magnavox Odyssey system. It runs on Cartridge No.3 and uses play-chips with an overlay. A math game where players can move to either squares depicted on the overlay based on if the number on the square is even or odd and is the sum of the other player's move and another number
    • Genres: Puzzle
    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Auditory

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  13. Prehistoric Safari

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    One of four games packed with Shooting Gallery, a Magnavox Odyssey peripheral. One player sets their dot on overlays of prehistoric animals, while the other player attempts to shoot the dot with the light gun in as few shots as possible. Uses game card number 9.
    • Genres: Shooter

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  14. Shootout!

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    One of four games packed with Shooting Gallery, a Magnavox Odyssey peripheral. One player is a bandit in an Old West town, and moves along a path, stopping at windows for the other player to try to shoot with the light gun. Uses game card number 9.
    • Genres: Shooter

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  15. Volleyball

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    Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. Two players use paddles to knock a ball back and forth on a screen; uses an overlay of a volleyball court, and players must knock the ball over the net for scores to count. Uses game card number 7.
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    • Gameplay: Multiplayer
    • Perspectives: Side view

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  16. Shooting Gallery

    VGFBot in S

    Shooting Gallery was the very first collection of shooting games with a light gun for a home console system. It came on the Magnavox Odyssey Cartrdige No. 10, used a original sized rifle and four different screen overlays.
    • Genres: Shooter
    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: First person

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  17. Invasion

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    Magnavox Odyssey launch title, sold separately. A combination of strategic moves made on a separate game board and tactical combat resolved on the screen; different assaults use different cards. Used game cards number 4, 5, and 6.
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    • Gameplay: Multiplayer

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  18. Killer Shark

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    Killer Shark is a first-person light-gun shooter arcade game that was published by Sega in 1972. The objective of the game is for the player is to repeatedly shoot the approaching sharks. The arcade received moderate success, but gained considerable notoriety after it was featured in the 1975 movie Jaws, seen being played by a gamer at a local beachside arcade in the community of Amity Island. This bit of levity left a major impression on audiences and made Killer Shark the first, and most famou
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    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: First person

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  19. Baseball

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    Baseball is a combined board-video game for the Magnavox Odyssey system that runs with its Cartridge No.3.
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    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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  20. Tennis for Two

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    Tennis for Two is often credited to be the world's first video game.
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    • Gameplay: Multiplayer and Split screen
    • Perspectives: Side view

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  21. Donkey Kong

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    Donkey Kong is not only Nintendo's first real smash hit for the company, but marks the introduction for two of their most popular mascots: Mario (originally "Jumpman") and Donkey Kong. The game is a platform-action game that has Mario scale four different industrial themed levels (construction zone, cement factory, an elevator-themed level, and removing rivets from girders) in an attempt to save the damsel in distress, Pauline, from the big ape before the timer runs out. Donkey Kong is also nota
    • Genres: Platform
    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Side view

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  22. Assassin's Creed

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    Assassin's Creed is a non-linear action-adventure video game, during which the player controls a 12th-century Levantine Assassin named Altaïr Ibn-La'Ahad during the Third Crusade, whose life is experienced through the Animus by his 21st century descendant, Desmond Miles.
    • Genres: Platform
    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Third person

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  23. Galaga

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    The objective of Galaga is to score as many points as possible by destroying insect-like enemies. The player controls a starfighter that can move left and right along the bottom of the playfield. Enemies swarm in groups in a formation near the top of the screen, and then begin flying down toward the player, firing bombs at the fighter. The game ends when the player's last fighter is lost, either by colliding with an enemy or one of its bullets, or by being captured. Galaga introduces a number of
    • Genres: Shooter
    • Gameplay: Single player and Multiplayer
    • Perspectives: Side view

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  24. Pac-Man

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    Pac-Man is a 1980 maze action video game developed and released by Namco for arcades. It is considered one of the classics of the medium, virtually synonymous with video games, and an icon of 1980s popular culture. Players control Pac-Man, who must eat all the dots inside an enclosed maze while avoiding four colored ghosts. Eating large flashing dots called Power Pellets causes the ghosts to temporarily turn blue, allowing Pac-Man to eat them for bonus points.
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    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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  25. Space Invaders

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    Space Invaders is an arcade video game developed by Tomohiro Nishikado and released in 1978. It is one of the earliest shooting games and the aim is to defeat waves of aliens with a laser cannon to earn as many points as possible.
    • Genres: Shooter
    • Gameplay: Single player
    • Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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