Nowadays, video game consoles are a ubiquitous piece of hardware in many households. Maybe you have a Switch hooked up in the ...

Did you know the very first video game console ever made (initial prototype called "Brown Box") was the Magnavox Odyssey?It had a grand total of 6 games, most being some kind of variation of Pong ...

If someone asked you to name the very first video game console, what would you say? The Nintendo Entertainment System? No, that launched in 1983, well into the game industry's life.

Fifty years ago today, an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World introduced the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first ever home video games console. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to ...

The very first videogame console! What? I thought that was Atari's Pong? Nope. While the home version of Pong is the system most often remembered by video game players who had their first ...

First generation: 1972 – 1983 Magnavox. Going all the way back to the origins of home consoles, we are at a point where most games don’t even resemble the experiences we have today.

Specifically, Nintendo announced earlier today that, in the first four days of availability, it had sold 3.5 million units of the new console, which builds on the hybrid “portable, but you can also ...

While the first true video game consoles were undeniably innovative, the Magnavox Odyssey is, in retrospect, really the only console from this generation that vaguely resembles what home consoles ...

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