Designed to work with a home TV set, the Odyssey blazed a trail that every game console follows today. The Odyssey launched at $99.99 (about $548 in today’s dollars) in August 1972 and included ...

As a prototypical game console, the Odyssey was only capable of projecting a handful of simple shapes onto your TV screen. Things like colors or images simply weren't possible.

The console itself was more of a success, shifting 100,000 games within its first year and moving around 350,000 units by the time its successor, the cartridge-based Magnavox Odyssey 2, arrived in ...

History [Baer] originally thought of the TV game in 1966. He wound up making seven prototypes and the seventh — called “the brown box” — was the one Magnavox agreed to produce and market.

Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to the world’s first home games-console. Kyle ...