Here are the five honorees in the category of Good Idea, Bad Timing. In 1972, Magnavox created the TV video game console with its release of the Odyssey, the forebear of today's Sony PlayStation and ...

Video games are still a young medium ... The main exception, and most famous console from this generation, was the Magnavox ...

Nowadays, video game consoles are a ubiquitous piece ... The very first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, was released only one year later in 1972. Why then did it take so long for home consoles ...

This was the first ever video game console released in 1972. The Odyssey could only display ... more famous and more successful Atari Pong, and Magnavox sued Pong for copyright infringement.