Editing Magnavox Odyssey 2 (section)

===United States===
The console sold moderately well in the U.S. Prior to the nationwide release of the [[Mattel]] [[Intellivision]] in 1980, the console video game market was dominated by the competition between the Odyssey 2 and [[Atari 2600]].<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Video Game Timeline |magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]] |issue=102|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|date=January 1998 |page=120}}</ref> It remained one of the three primary consoles from 1980 to mid-[[1982 in video gaming|1982]], though a distant third behind the Atari 2600 and Mattel Intellivision.

To sell would-be customers on its resemblance to a [[home computer]], the Odyssey 2 was marketed with phrases such as "The Ultimate Computer Video Game System", "Sync-Sound Action", "True-Reality Synthesization", "On-Screen Digital Readouts" and "a serious educational tool" on the packaging for the console and its game cartridges. All games, aside from Showdown in 2100 AD, produced by Magnavox/Philips ended with an exclamation point, such as ''[[K.C. Munchkin!]]'' and ''[[Killer Bees!]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=HYPE! |author=William from The Odyssey 2 Homepage |url=http://www.the-nextlevel.com/odyssey2/articles/hype/index.php |access-date=2 February 2010}}</ref>

No [[third-party developer|third-party]] game appeared for the Odyssey 2 in the United States until [[Imagic]]'s ''[[Demon Attack]]'' in 1983.<ref name="eg198306">{{cite news | url=https://archive.org/stream/electronic-games-magazine-1983-06/Electronic_Games_Issue_16_Vol_02_04_1983_Jun#page/n37/mode/2up | title=Programmable Arcade | work=Electronic Games | date=June 1983 | access-date=6 January 2015 |author1=Katz, Arnie |author2=Kunkel, Bill | pages=38–42}}</ref> The lack of third-party support kept the number of new games very limited, but the success of the Philips Videopac G7000 overseas led to two other companies producing games for it: [[Parker Brothers]] released ''[[Popeye (video game)|Popeye]]'', ''[[Frogger]]'', ''[[Q*bert]]'' and ''[[Super Cobra]]'', while [[Imagic]] also released ''[[Atlantis (video game)|Atlantis]]''.