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 ...

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 ...

Baer’s so-called “Brown Box” was an early prototype of what would come to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video-game console. Those four simple words not only ...

That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974. It also created Odyssey, the first home video game console – so pioneering that the ...

(2006.0102.08) NMAH 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 Magnavox Odyssey was the first home console, lasting from 1972 to 1978, succeeded by the Odyssey 2. The PS2, best-selling console ever, lasted from 2000 to 2006. Nintendo Switch has the ...

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

The popularity of Pong directly helped the sales of the Odyssey console that year, when it was "discovered" that the console had a "similar" game. By the end of the year, Magnavox had sold 100,000 ...

Did you know the very first video game console ever made (initial prototype called "Brown Box") was the Magnavox Odyssey? It had a grand total of 6 games, most being some kind of variation of Pong ...

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 ...