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569: The Odyssey2

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Development and Launch of the Odyssey II

This chapter discusses the development and launch of the Odyssey II video game system. It mentions the initial delays and the involvement of Ralph Baer in convincing the upper management to continue pursuing the system. It also talks about the performance of the console in the market and how the internal game dev team was broken up but saved by the Averitts who developed a significant portion of the game library.

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