With console prices rising and new games showing very little change from past systems, console generations are beginning to ...

This helps things feel less like its roots reach back to when the latest video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey. The update brings a modern steering wheel with matching LED-backlit gauges and ...

The main exception, and most famous console from this generation, was the Magnavox Odyssey. This console included various plastic overlays you could put on your screen to play different games with ...

the 1978 Magnavox Odyssey 2 and the 1995 Nintendo Virtual Boy. The lab, located in the Information Communication Technology Complex Building, 535 W. Michigan St., is appropriately shaped like a ...

Lost In Cult is an indie publisher that values video games as an art form and a piece of history, and appreciates how they can shape and influence us. Its latest book, The Console Chronicles ...

Quickly conquering the home console market in the ’70s ... Baer, creator of the Magnavox Odyssey), they’re certainly the reason it stuck around. Bushnell’s appearance is slated to be ...

As one commentator has cogently noted, “It is perhaps fitting that the father of the video game, that quintessential American invention, was a refugee from Hitler’s Germany, whose personal ...

The story begins in the early 1970s with the emergence of home consoles, most notably the Magnavox Odyssey and Atari 2600. These pioneering machines introduced audiences to basic games such as ...

Atari's first "Pong" console? Close, but the real progenitor of home gaming actually managed to beat out the 1972 release of "Pong" by just a few months: the Magnavox Odyssey. Originally released ...

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 ...

The industry started with the blocky pixels of the Magnavox Odyssey console but grew into one of the most daring artistic mediums out there. There are philosophical games like Planescape ...

The Magnavox Odyssey 2 in all its glory (Picture ... Nintendo had to pretend the NES was a toy, not a console, so US shops would stock it (Picture: Reddit) The industry in the US was struggling ...