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 ...

(2006.0102.08) NMAH In September 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey appeared in American Magnavox stores, making it the first video game console that could be played at home with your television.

With console prices rising and new games showing very little change from past systems, console generations are beginning to ...

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 popularity of Pong directly helped the sales of the Odyssey console that year, when it was "discovered" that the console had a "similar" game. By the end of the year, Magnavox had sold 100,000 ...

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 ...

Did you know the very first video game console ever made (initial prototype called "Brown Box") was the Magnavox Odyssey? It had a grand total of 6 games, most being some kind of variation of Pong ...

The main exception, and most famous console from this generation, was the Magnavox Odyssey. This console included various plastic overlays you could put on your screen to play different games with ...

While the first true video game consoles were undeniably innovative, the Magnavox Odyssey is, in retrospect, really the only console from this generation that vaguely resembles what home consoles ...

The industry started with the blocky pixels of the Magnavox Odyssey console but grew into one of the most daring artistic mediums out there. There are philosophical games like Planescape ...