The gaming industry is in mourning this week following the news that one of its founding fathers, Ralph H Baer, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for ...

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 ...

No Mario. No Pac-Man. No Grand Theft Auto. No video games. That's what the pop-entertainment landscape might have looked like today without the brainchild of legendary inventor Ralph Baer, the Odyssey ...

Ralph Baer, the 91-year old inventor of the world's first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is pretty sure his legacy is intact, despite various claimants to the honor of bringing video games into ...

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 ...

First released for arcades before being ported to the Atari 2600, among other consoles, Asteroids is the quintessential ...

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 ...

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. While ...