K.C. Munchkin!

Also known as: Come-Come II (South America), Glouton et Voraces (Europe), K.C. Broyefer! (Canada), Munchikin (Europe)

Developer: Magnavox

It's easy to sit back and call K.C. Munchkin a Pac-Man clone if you've never played it before. At first glance, it certainly looks like one. Even the concept of the game is the same - eat all of the pellets on the screen, and the larger pellets allow you to eat the colorful ghosts that are trying to stop your progress. The big difference in K.C. Munchkin, and it works really well, is that the whole screen isn't full of pellets. There's only a few pellets on the screen at the start of the level…and they move. The more you eat, the faster the remaining pellets move. So instead of simply trying to figure out a way to eat a screen full of pellets in the most efficient way, you're left trying to catch the last pellet on the screen while simultaneously trying to avoid the ghosts. It can be stressful when you pick a fork in the path in hopes that you can cut off that last pellet, only for it to turn in the opposite direction you predicted and now you're sandwiched by two ghosts closing in…but it's also good fun. If you like the basic concept of Pac-Man but want an interesting twist on the formula that's still fun to play today, then give K.C. Munchkin a chance - it's well worth tracking a Magnavox Odyssey2 down for, in my opinion.

Review added: 12/28/2022

K.C.'s Krazy Chase!

Also known as: Come-Come! (Brazil), Crazy Chase (Europe), La Grande Chasse de Broyefer! (Canada)

Developer: Magnavox

I'm a pretty big fan of K.C. Munchkin. I felt like it was an excellent take on the Pac-Man formula. So, color me surprised that when I popped in the sequel, K.C.'s Krazy Chase, and found myself loving it even more. Krazy Chase departs from the concept of eating pellets. In this game, as you take control of K.C. Munchkin again, who is eternally tumbling in circles for some reason, and navigate a maze. In this maze are trees that you can eat, and two enemy types - the dreaded Dratapillar and his pals, the dastardly Drats. Your goal is to eliminate the Dratapillar in each stage. Attacking the Dratapillar head-on will always result in an instant death for K.C. Munchkin, but that blue fella sure does like to eat stuff that doesn't bite back. So, since the Dratapillar's mouth is only on its head, your goal is to sneak up behind the Dratapillar as it weaves through the maze, and eat away at its body until nothing is left. By munching away at the Dratapillar, you may also see the Drats roaming around the maze turn white in color. Likely turning pale from the sight of you gnawing away at their friend. Luckily for you, when those Drats turn white, they can be eaten as well, allowing K.C. Munchkin to find himself mighty full by the end of each stage. Each stage gets faster and more challenging than the previous stage as you advance and the end result is just an absolutely fantastic and addicting game. There are rumors that eating the Dratapillar was a way for the developers to take a shot at Atari (who had sued them over K.C. Munchkin and its likeness to Pac-Man) and their recent success with Centipede. Regardless of the reason for including it into the game, it resulted in one of the best games that you can get for the Odyssey 2, and one of the more addicting games from the early 80s, regardless of platform.

Review added: 06/28/2026

Killer Bees

Also known as: Abelhas Assassinas! (Brazil)

Developer: Magnavox

Killer Bees! is both a deceptively fun and deceptively morbid game. Essentially, you control a warm of twelve white bees. On each stage, you'll see creatures called "Beebots" walking around. The Beebots are like those vacuum cleaning robots - they move until they hit an object, then change directions. The red Beebots move clockwise when they hit an object or wall and the blue Beetbots move counterclockwise when they hit an object or wall. Your goal is to move that swarm of bees over to every Beebot and sting them to death. And I do mean death. The Beebots leave tombstones behind once your bees finish them off. The Beebots also move slower and slower as you sting them more, until they gradually transform into the tombstone, letting you know that those poor robots aren't exactly having a quick, painless demise. I guess you're seeing why I called it deceptively morbid earlier, eh? Anyway, it's not just as simple as just performing murder on the Beebots, though. There are enemy swarms of bees to contend with, too. When the enemy swarms first appear, they're green in color and wander the screen. Eventually, they'll change to a blue color, which is a "bodyguard" stage of their evolution and they protectively hover over the Beebots. Eventually, the enemy swarms will turn red…this is their most dangerous form, as they will aggressively and actively attack your swarm. So, the key to survival in this game is to take out those Beebots as quickly as possible before the enemy swarms can cause you too many issues. You do have a defense against the enemy swarms, though, in the form of the "RoSHa Ray" which zaps those enemy bugs away. The ray is recharged every time you eliminate a Beebot, but the charges do not stack. So, it's to your advantage to use the ray now rather than save it for later. Overall, Killer Bees! isn't a perfect game by any means, but it's more fun than you may initially think…and it's one of those games that will likely have you trying to top your score with "just one more game" long after you planned to stop playing.

Review added: 06/29/2026