Designed to work with a home TV set, the Odyssey blazed a trail that every game console follows today. The Odyssey launched at $99.99 (about $548 in today’s dollars) in August 1972 and included ...

As a prototypical game console, the Odyssey was only capable of projecting a handful of simple shapes onto your TV screen. Things like colors or images simply weren't possible.

The Sony Trinitron KX-45ED1, aka the PVM-4300, is thought to be the largest CRT TV ever sold to consumers, delivering a 43-inch visible diagonal on its 45-inch tube.

The console itself was more of a success, shifting 100,000 games within its first year and moving around 350,000 units by the time its successor, the cartridge-based Magnavox Odyssey 2, arrived in ...

The Magnavox Odyssey was showcased on the BBC 's Tomorrow 's World 50 years ago today. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to today's multi-billion-pound industry.

Lo and behold, you could play games on your TV. ... In 1982, Magnavox’s newest console, the Odyssey², took center stage at the Knoxville World’s Fair.

Magnavox? Pfft! They were never the same when John Foxx left and Midge Ure took over. That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974.

History [Baer] originally thought of the TV game in 1966. He wound up making seven prototypes and the seventh — called “the brown box” — was the one Magnavox agreed to produce and market.

This Pi for instance sat in a vintage Singer TV, but the CRT was replaced with a modern LCD. Our favourite though it this Chromecast driving a 1978 GE model . Posted in Raspberry Pi Tagged console ...

Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to the world’s first home games-console. Kyle ...