The Magnavox Odyssey featured an unconventional design that resembled a model spaceship, and its controllers were equally oddball, clunky paddles with twisty dials on either side.

The Odyssey console was a little monolith of black and white plastic with a small, stylish strip of wood paneling. Connected to the main unit via a pair of thick, beige cords were the two ...

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 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 Pitch With mere days left before the dawn of 2008, there’s precious little time left to celebrate a geek milestone: the silver anniversary of the incomparable Magnavox Odyssey gaming console ...

As stated by [don] above, the Magnavox Odyssey used discrete logic. It didn’t have a CPU. The RCA Studio II video game console used the 1802 CPU. Compared to it’s contemporaries, ...

However, there was an earlier console available. the Magnavox Odyssey. This system was black and white, had two wired controllers, and while it didn’t quite have cartridges, ...

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 ...

By 1981, the Odyssey line had sold more than 1.7 million units, generating over $71 million. In 1982, Magnavox’s newest console, the Odyssey², took center stage at the Knoxville World’s Fair.

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 ...