Forty years ago, Magnavox lifted the veil on the world’s first commercial video game console, the Odyssey. Designed to work with a home TV set, the Odyssey blazed a trail that every game console ...

It also had the major features you expect from a video game. However, there was an earlier console available. the Magnavox Odyssey. This system was black and white, had two wired controllers ...

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 system came with dice, a card deck, play money, and poker chips that could be used with some of the games. 5. Some Magnavox Odyssey games were meant to be educational. Possibly anticipating ...

Magnavox instead packed the Odyssey's box with a stack of colorful screen overlays. These transparent acetate sheets would be placed over your TV screen to create the illusion of game screens like ...

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 ...

Released in the middle of 1972 by Magnavox, before the appearance of Atari's PONG as an arcade coin-op, the Odyssey is the undisputed first video game console. The Odyssey's affect on digital ...

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 ...

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 ...