Classic Game Room HD – SHOWDOWN IN 2100 AD for Magnavox
August 17th, 2010 | 
Author: Classic Game Room HD reviews SHOWDOWN IN 2100 AD for the Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game console from 1979! This game is like Westworld meets Logan’s Run meets Outlaw for the Atari 2600. Gunfighters duke it out in an authentic acre of the old west in the future with metal pyramids and dradels made of clay. A rarity for the Philips Videopac G7000 / Odyssey 2, this game plays as both a one player game and 2 player game! If you ignore both controllers the computer will actually play itself and explode. Who doesn’t like to watch some computer on computer action, ahhh yeah! MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY 2! Showdown in 2100 AD is one of the better titles on the O2 and is very enjoyable to play because it is so silly. Bullets bounce off trees back into your fact, it takes 10 seconds to fire and you can jump up and down on your enemy’s corpse after you slaughter them. As far as 2 player games from 1979 go, this one is still worthy of playing with friends today. If you can find the game cartridge for Showdown in 2100 AD for the Magnavox Odyssey 2, and this review shows gameplay footage of the game, then you’ll love it! Classic Game Room is the retro reviewer that reviews games like Showdown in 2100 AD with HD gameplay and footage showing the awesome details of this radical game as it is reviewed. “Classic Game Room is the best reviewer on YouTube” says the San Franmisco Picayune, April 32, 2243 edition.
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the magnavox is ok but the atari 2600 is alot better, i think that all the games on the magnavox look a bit tacky compared to atari
How many times did I wind up shooting myself in this game? THe ricochet effect was awesome!
I know this is 7 months too late but how can you be put to boredom?
Dancing on the corpse. Classic.
I highly doubt that there will be any showdowns in 2100 ad because most of us will have been killed by the robotrons.
Just bought this game tonight.
It is so rudimentary……………and so dang FUN!!
I kinda beg to differ.
And in fact tacky is a great quality in products from the 70′s and 80′s its one of their great touches, like K-9000 (a cheesy 80′s film)
Thank you soooo much for posting this. I remember kicking my older brother’s ass at this game when I was a kid. All cool kids had Nintendo… we had the Odyssey 2. Also, what the vid doesnt show is if you stand right next to a tree you can shoot right thru it.
1:02 HeadShot
ohh i used to play this all the time on the odyssey 2 clone “philips G7000″ wich was realeased in europe.. boom headshot!! hehe ;-P
1:45 is that the first known videogame act of teabagging? i used to love this game
skynet
My sister and I use to play this. We’d just do one shots into the trees to see how many ricochetes would happen before someone got hit.
I always thought the trees were made from Aluminum, not plastic.
Yes…touch the same colour tree and you reload.
We also use to shoot all our bullets and then fight like Rocky Balboa because how they draw their guns looks like how they punch. Then we’d play “Eye Of The Tiger” and punch each other into the coloured trees to shoot one another.
does anyone know of anyway to emulate this game or know where to buy the console?
THIS SUCKS LOL
This reflecting thing is really cool, and a thing that every game should have today.
I love it when one accidentally shoots themselves when the bullets ricochet off the trees and hits the guy who fired it. XD
Mr. IncomeCompany, LOVED the Galaxy Rangers reference! :D ~Gives you a cookie.~
its just too ridiculous making reviews of these 0.0.000002 versions of advanced Paint xD
They are shooting miniaturized ping-pong balls at each other.
I loved the art for the games on the boxes.
you should review the retro game challenge
I loved this game when I was a kid. Nice trick: When you kill your opponent and he falls dead near the right or left edge of the screen, you have a few seconds where you can continue shooting him and he’ll be crushed against the edge into a little box. Great fun. ;)
I love the ricocheting bullet gameplay mechanic.
Magnavox had a really shitty console, but they had some damn good graphic artists doing the box art, back in the day.
Odyssey could give Atari a run for their money, when it came to box art. They blew Intellivision and their early 70′s Sears Catalog looking boxes, out of the water. I still think Pick Axe Pete is still my favorite box art from that era.
Looks like they get pregnant when shot down.