Ralph Baer is a name synonymous with gaming lore, credited with the invention of the Magnavox Odyssey and thinking that digital table tennis was a good idea long before Pong proved him right.

I confess it is tempting to believe that interactive video games, as a concept, would have still existed had it not been for Baer and his Magnavox Odyssey, which shipped in 1972.

Baer is credited with launching the video game console business, creating the first home device, the Magnavox Odyssey. The battery-powered console included a controller with two knobs players ...

Baer's first video game console, dubbed The Brown Box, made its debut in 1972, and was later licensed by Magnavox as the Odyssey game system. It included the game Table Tennis, a forerunner to ...

Seven years before Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs invented the personal computer and decades before we were interacting with Playstation, Wii and Xbox 360, Ralph Baer was playing ping-pong on ...

Ralph and Mark were wondering if the Smithsonian was interested in preserving some of Ralph's objects and papers. Magnavox Odyssey Video Game Unit, 1972. Odyssey was a home video game system based on ...

Baer and his associates called the devices they were developing "boxes" and numbered the various versions one through seven. In 1971, Magnavox became Sanders Associates's first videogame licensee.

The first home video game system had a lot of the right ideas, just not at the right time Drew Robarge The Magnavox Odyssey with its cover box, controllers, and carts. (2006.0102.08) NMAH In ...

The very first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is being recreated in an ongoing project that aims to give others the opportunity to play with the system. The OdysseyNow project is ...