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 in the summer of 1972 ...

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 ...

The remaining 4 cartridges (which often wound up under ... There is a functioning PC emulator for the Magnavox Odyssey, ODYEMU by David Winter and Paul Robson. According to the claims of ODYEMU's ...

Fast forward a few years after the Magnavox Odyssey's launch ... with rivals Atari Lynx and Sega Game Gear barely managing 4-6 hours. At launch, the Game Boy came with "Tetris." ...

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 ...