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 September ...

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. About 350,000 Magnavox Odyssey ...

Magnavox decided to release one of their new consoles to answer in kind and thus, the public was introduced to the Odyssey 100 at the same time as Home Pong. It was followed a few months later by a ...

Pitt Professor Zachary Horton holds up the overlay for the Odyssey game Haunted House. The very first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is being recreated in an ongoing project that aims to ...

Before Nintendo 64, before Playstation, before Wii or Dreamcast or Xbox... there was the Magnavox Odyssey. There’s a TV show from the 1970's called “What’s My Line?” It has kind of a quiz show feel, ...

V ideo games are commonplace today, with an estimated 50% of US households alone owning at least one video game console. But when did it all begin?

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 ...