In the BBC Tomorrow's World episode, first broadcast 50 years ago, he goes on to demonstrate the world's first home-video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey.

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.

Explore the revolutionary journey of the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console, and its impact on the gaming industry.

In September 1972, the Magnavox Odyssey appeared in American Magnavox stores, making it the first video game console that could be played at home with your television.

The very first videogame console! What? I thought that was Atari's Pong? Nope. While the home version of Pong is the system most often remembered by video game players who had their first ...

Many potential consumers were under the impression—sometimes encouraged by Magnavox salesmen—that Odyssey would only work on Magnavox television sets. Despite these setbacks, Magnavox Odyssey made its ...

The main exception, and most famous console from this generation, was the Magnavox Odyssey.

While the first true video game consoles were undeniably innovative, the Magnavox Odyssey is, in retrospect, really the only console from this generation that vaguely resembles what home consoles ...

Fifty years ago today, an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World introduced the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first ever home video games console. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to ...