The Magnavox Odyssey’s controller had some complexity and perhaps not enough comfort. It was notably different from what Atari and arcade games would adopt: joysticks and one or a few buttons.

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games.

The Magnavox Odyssey featured an unconventional design that resembled a model spaceship, and its controllers were equally oddball, clunky paddles with twisty dials on either side.

Magnavox Odyssey DS is a port of the first ever home video game system released in 1972, Odyssey. It includes different chips which each chip contains a minigame.

Magnavox did not give up on the Odyssey right away, though. The company saw the incredible success of PONG and released stand-alone video game table tennis machines under the Odyssey brand.

The Magnavox Odyssey was released in 1972 (predating Pong) for home use, and about 350,000 of them were sold before, as Horton says, it faded into obscurity.

Magnavox corrected this in the late 1970s with its Odyssey 2, which eventually featured such games as Pick Axe Pete and Quest for the Rings, but by then it was too late: The age of the Atari 2600 ...

But the the Magnavox Odyssey nevertheless brought computer technology into the home and that was exciting. It proved a market existed for home video gaming, and served no small part in the success ...

The Magnavox Odyssey %26ndash; as you no doubt know, being crack videogame historians and all %26ndash; was the first dedicated home games console, released in 1972, three whole years before Atari ...

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. Sold over a period of three ...