The gaming industry is in mourning this week following the news that one of its founding fathers, Ralph H Baer, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for ...

Fanboy rage isn't new; the console wars have been raging for forty years. We look back over the history of the industry and ask: who won? This is part one of a series, covering the earliest skirmishes ...

The Console Living Room, via the Internet Archive, is letting users relive their childhood by providing emulators for classic video game consoles. Users can play games for the Atari 2600, Atari 7800 ...

The first home video game system had a lot of the right ideas, just not at the right time Drew Robarge The Magnavox Odyssey with its cover box, controllers, and carts. (2006.0102.08) NMAH In September ...

Students at the University of Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Media Lab are re-engineering the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video game console released in 1972. About 350,000 Magnavox Odyssey ...

Pitt Professor Zachary Horton holds up the overlay for the Odyssey game Haunted House. The very first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is being recreated in an ongoing project that aims to ...

Retro A new Atari 2600 is coming that "perfectly honors the timeless spirit of Pac-Man," but I'm more excited for its free cartridge Games 3 years later, my favorite retro game collection is getting ...

Curtis International Ltd. has acquired the iconic consumer electronics Magnavox brand, marking a significant milestone as Curtis International takes the helm of a brand that has been a household name ...

In the competitive scramble among TV-phonograph makers, any new sales idea is as good as gold. Last week Magnavox Co. announced one that it hopes will win nuggets of customer good will: a ten-year ...