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The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. The hardware was designed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates, while Magnavox completed development and released it in the United States in September 1972 and overseas the following year.
While the home version of Pong is the system most often remembered by video game players who had their first experience in the '70s, the original home video game system (and the system...
The Odyssey 400 is an updated version of the Odyssey 200 with automatic serve and on-screen digital scoring features added. The console plays the same three games as the Odyssey 200—Squash (known as Smash), Tennis, and Hockey—and has the same three control dials for vertical movement, horizontal movement, and "english" control.
The Magnavox Odyssey 2 (stylized as Magnavox Odyssey²), also known as Philips Odyssey 2, is a second generation home video game console 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).
In 1972, Magnavox released the first home console, the Odyssey, a $99.95 system that resembled nothing so much as a home appliance and included 12 primitive games without sound or color. It was...
Forty years ago, Magnavox lifted the veil on the world’s first commercial video game console, the Odyssey. Designed to work with a home TV set, the Odyssey blazed a trail that every game...
In this site you’ll find a comprehensive page devoted to each of the 28 games produced for the Odyssey in 1972 and 1973, including high-rez downloads of every game element, from overlays to cards and gameboards (and sometimes even 3D models).
Fifty years ago today, an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World introduced the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first ever home video games console. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to...
“ODYSSEY is thought, action, and reaction.” So proclaims an advertisement for the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first home gaming system. Based on a 1967 prototype by Ralph Baer known as “ The Brown Box ,” the Magnavox Odyssey sold only around 300,000+ units at $99.95 each , about $570 in today’s dollars.
A personal favourite in our collection, the 1972 (1973 for us in the UK) Magnavox Odyssey is the grandfather of home video game consoles. The console was created by Ralph H. Baer, who had begun the designing process in 1966!