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 ...

As stated by [don] above, the Magnavox Odyssey used discrete logic. It didn’t have a CPU. The RCA Studio II video game console used the 1802 CPU. Compared to it’s contemporaries, ...

In 1977, a judge ruled in Magnavox’s favor, citing that Baer’s patent for the Odyssey was the “pioneering patent of the video-game art.” By then it mattered little, at least for the Odyssey. On the ...

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.

The Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first home video game console, pre-dated Atari and was decidedly low-tech. It came with a deck of cards, dice, and plastic scenes that users taped to their ...

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 Company Description When most people think about the first video game, they think of Pong, the ping-pong arcade game released by Atari in 1972. However, months earlier, Magnavox had released ...

The Pitch With mere days left before the dawn of 2008, there’s precious little time left to celebrate a geek milestone: the silver anniversary of the incomparable Magnavox Odyssey gaming console ...

Students at the University of Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Media Lab are re-engineering the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video game console released in 1972.

Magnavox? Pfft! They were never the same when John Foxx left and Midge Ure took over. That’s Ultravox. Magnavox is a US tech company most famous for tellies that was swallowed up by Phillips in 1974.

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 ...