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The Magnavox Odyssey 2 (stylized as Magnavox Odyssey²), also known as Philips Odyssey 2, is a home video game console of the second generation that was released in 1978. It was sold in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil and Peru as the Philips Odyssey and in Japan as Odyssey2 (オデッセイ2 odessei2).
This is a list of games for the Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game console. Magnavox games. In the United States the following 47 game titles were released by Magnavox. [1]
Eleven dedicated Odyssey consoles were produced before a follow-up non-dedicated console in 1978, the Magnavox Odyssey 2. [4] While it showed the potential of video game consoles and was an early part of the rise of the commercial video game industry, the Odyssey is not generally considered a major commercial success. Magnavox produced no more ...
The generation began in November 1976 with the release of the Fairchild Channel F. [1] This was followed by the Atari 2600 in 1977, [2] Magnavox Odyssey² in 1978, [3] Intellivision in 1980 [4] and then the Emerson Arcadia 2001, ColecoVision, Atari 5200, and Vectrex, [5] all in 1982. By the end of the era, there were over 15 different consoles.
On this day in economic and business history... The era of video games began rather quietly one day in August of 1972, when the first Magnavox Odyssey consoles began to show up in Magnavox stores ...
Magnavox Odyssey 100. The Magnavox Odyssey 100 dedicated console was announced in the Spring of 1975 with first shipments on October 30 [2] and a launch price of $99.95, [5] [6] although pricing dropped quickly with pricing listed at $80 by June 1976 [7] and by Christmas of 76 as low as $39.95. [8]
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972. The first generation of home consoles were generally limited to dedicated consoles with just one or two games pre-built into the console hardware, with a limited means to alter gameplay factors.
The predecessor to Magnavox was founded in 1911 by Edwin Pridham and Peter L. Jensen, co-inventors of the moving-coil loudspeaker at their lab in Napa, California, under United States Patent number 1,105,924 for telephone receivers. [2] Six decades later, Magnavox produced the Odyssey, the world's first home video game console.