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.

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.

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 console stereo was a Magnavox. And it looked like the day it was brought home from the dealer. That’s the thing about this lady’s generation.

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 ...