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 ...

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 ...

Some might consider its horizontal control stick and handle scheme ahead of its time. Others might consider it an obtuse concept that becomes hell on the arms after 30 minutes of play. The controller ...

V ideo games are commonplace today, with an estimated 50% of US households alone owning at least one video game console. But when did it all begin?