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 ...

Magnavox did not give up on the Odyssey right away, though. The company saw the incredible success of PONG and released stand-alone video game table tennis machines under the Odyssey brand.

Whether you love or hate gaming culture, it’s undeniably a large part of most people’s childhoods and hobbies even into adulthood. From the Magnavox Odyssey – the first home-use video gaming console – ...

About 350,000 Magnavox Odyssey units were ever sold, according to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The OdysseyNow Project aims to recreate the console and reconnect it to ...

The Magnavox Odyssey was released in 1972 (predating Pong) for home use, and about 350,000 of them were sold before, as Horton says, it faded into obscurity.

But the the Magnavox Odyssey nevertheless brought computer technology into the home and that was exciting. It proved a market existed for home video gaming, and served no small part in the success ...

Ralph Baer, one of the unsung heroes in the history of video gaming, has died at age 92, according to Gamasutra. Baer developed the Brown Box (which became the Magnavox Odyssey) and came up with ...

The frontier of the technology industry is frequently cruel to its pioneers. Consider these five products: Magnavox Odyssey, Xerox Star, Commodore Amiga, Apple Newton, Gateway Destination ...

The Magnavox Odyssey %26ndash; as you no doubt know, being crack videogame historians and all %26ndash; was the first dedicated home games console, released in 1972, three whole years before Atari ...

Additional to the 14 games that comprised the original collection, the Museum has added the 1972 games console Magnavox Odyssey as well as Pong, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Tempest, Yar’s Revenge ...