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.

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.

Once upon a time, we would run home from the bus stop to watch Gargoyles and Brady Bunch reruns on the family TV, a late-1970s console Magnavox number that sat on the floor and was about 50% more ...

A gamer from Saudi Arabia can now add this world record to his sprawling console collection. News. ... category of most gaming consoles connected to a single TV. ... for almost 25 years. Better ...

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 ...