Magnavox odyssey

Video games have become a ubiquitous, billion-dollar industry, but all of the Playstations, Xboxes and Wiis can be traced back to the work of Robert Baer and his "Brown Box." He died Saturday.

🎮 Game mode: ON! Did you know the Magnavox Odyssey was the first commercial home video game console? It was developed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates and released by Magnavox in the US in September 1972. It cost $100 (equivalent to about $611 today), with a total of 28 games distributed on 11 different game cards, including table tennis, football and basketball. What was your first game console or favourite video game?

Odyssey for the home - the first Pong

The first video game consoles, starting with the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. Also shown are: the Odyssey’s follow-up; the Intellivision; the Fairchild Channel F; the Atari 2600 and 5200; and the ColecoVision.

Magnavox Odyssey magazibe game catalog 1980.

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Clipping found in St. Louis Post-Dispatch published in St. Louis, Missouri on 12/4/1979. Magnavox Odyssey at Stix, Baer, and Fuller, 1979

The history of gaming is one of surprising depth and complexity. While many might assume that video games were simply invented in the late-'70s and progressed from there, the truth is stranger and more fascinating.

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Magnavox Odyssey 2 Video Game Console by Derek T.

In all likelihood, you probably didn't forget about this one, it just came out way before you were born, or you remember that one kid who had one that you hated. Regardless, this disco-tastic mother right here is ground zero for console gaming. You may think Atari was first - and you would be wrong. Making it's debut in 1974 the odyssey is 2 years older than Atari's arcade version of Pong, and 3 years older than the 2600 console. Magnavox even got Atari to settle an infringement case that…

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Magnavox Odyssey 2 magazine ad.

Magnavox Odyssey ~2 [1972]

// Armored Encounter - 1978 - Magnavox // Air-Sea War and Battle are two games that were released together as the fourth cartridge in the official Philips line of games for the Philips Videopac. In North America, the same game was released as Armored Encounter! / Subchase! for the Magnavox Odyssey² console. SRC: Wikipedia #Magnavox #retrogaming #gaming #oldschool #Odyssey2

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