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 ...

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 ...

Because of several ownership changes and operations spanning from California to Virginia, many people had no idea the scope of what Magnavox did. That's why, 10 years ago, James Smith, former ...

The Internet Archive has launched a beta version of the Console Living Room, a new initiative that makes hundreds of classic video games available for free, in-browser play. Part of the Internet ...

The first piece of tech gear that I could call my own wasn’t a computer; it was a game console–an original Sega Master System. I remember it, and the often-cheesy marketing that so appealed to my ...

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 ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Magnavox Odyssey DS Magnavox Odyssey DS is a port of the first ever home video game system released in 1972, Odyssey. It includes different chips which each ...