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 ...

The RCA Studio II video game console used the 1802 CPU. Compared to it’s contemporaries, it was primitive enough to be mistaken for something like the original Odyssey. Report comment ...

The Magnavox Odyssey was showcased on the BBC 's Tomorrow 's World 50 years ago today. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to today's multi-billion-pound industry.

The Magnavox Odyssey, manufactured in Jefferson City, started the video game revolution in 1972 with its innovative design and concept.

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's what it was capable of.

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 ...

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 ...

The Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first home video game console, pre-dated Atari and was decidedly low-tech. It came with a deck of cards, dice, and plastic scenes that users taped to their ...

Magnavox released its own simpler, dedicated Pong-inspired console, the Odyssey 100, in 1975. In doing so, it contributed to a massive console glut that led to the first great video game market ...

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's what it was capable of.