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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...