The Game: Hit the hardwood in one of two sports. Roll your big shiny one down the lanes and try to knock down all the pins in Bowling!, or go for a basket in Basketball! Not possible in Odyssey² Basketball!: fouls, three-point shots, free throws, most steals… (Magnavox, 1978)
Memories: Granted, neither the bowling nor basketball games for the Atari VCS which competed for shelf space with this two-in-one Odyssey² title were significantly better, but they would’ve been hard pressed to turn out significantly worse.
Truthfully, Atari’s Basketball had a little more – we’re talking a minute amount here – visual finesse than the same sport’s equivalent on the Odyssey. And as for laying down the ten-pins…it’s sort of like video pinball. Bowling is a sport rooted in physics – the weight of the ball, the amount of force you put behind it, your aim – and no video game can match that experience or even adequately simulate it (it took Wii Sports to 
even begin to get close). Especially not a game where the player’s entire control consists of lining up the ball and hitting the action button to launch it.
Rather like Football!, not the best pair of Odyssey² sports simulations.
