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. So, rather than ...

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.

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 ...

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.

Magnavox? Pfft! They were never the same when John Foxx left and Midge Ure took over. That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974.

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 ...

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 ...

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 c… ...