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 console ...

Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for starting the home console movement with the invention of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 and creating the first ever light gun along with it.

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 ...

Atari's first "Pong" console? Close, but the real progenitor of home gaming actually managed to beat out the 1972 release of "Pong" by just a few months: the Magnavox Odyssey. Originally released ...

That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974. It also created Odyssey, the first home video game console – so pioneering that the ...

It also had the major features you expect from a video game. However, there was an earlier console available. the Magnavox Odyssey. This system was black and white, had two wired controllers ...

Holy moly. Magnavox Odyssey² launched in 1979 as the first major console successor to hit the market. It built strongly on the original Odyssey's strengths, but it didn't have the graphics grunt ...

the Magnavox Odyssey appeared in American Magnavox stores, making it the first video game console that could be played at home with your television. Sold over a period of three years in the United ...

Now a 91-year-old widower, the German-born Baer is the inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first video game console. The Odyssey is predated in the games-on-screens space only by ...

Ralph Baer, the 91-year old inventor of the world’s first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is pretty sure his legacy is intact, despite various claimants to the honor of bringing video games ...