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The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. The hardware was designed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates, while Magnavox completed development and released it in the United States in September 1972 and overseas the following year. The Odyssey consists of a white, black, and brown box that ...
The first generation of video game consoles lasted from 1972 to 1983. The first console of this generation was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey. [ 1 ] The last new console release of the generation was most likely the Compu-Vision 440 by radio manufacturer Bentley in 1983, [ 2 ] though other systems were also released in that year.
Website. magnavox.com. Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company. It was purchased by North American Philips in 1974, [1] which was absorbed into Dutch electronics company Philips in 1991. The predecessor to Magnavox was founded in 1911 by Edwin Pridham and ...
Philips Odyssey is the brand name that includes the Philips Odyssey series of dedicated home video game consoles. Magnavox sold a total of 1,773,918 units across the entire Odyssey brand between 1972 and 1981 with a total sales value of around $71,300,000.00. [1] Nearly half of those sales occurred between August 1972 and September 1976 with ...
CD-i. The Compact Disc-Interactive (CD-I, later CD-i) is a digital optical disc data storage format as well as a hardware platform, co-developed and marketed by Dutch company Philips and Japanese company Sony. It was created as an extension of CDDA and CD-ROM and specified in the Green Book specifications, co-developed by Philips and Sony, to ...
e. In the history of video games, the first generation era refers to the video games, video game consoles, and handheld video game consoles available from 1972 to 1983. Notable consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2), the Atari Home Pong, [1] the Coleco Telstar series and the Color TV-Game ...
Magnavox Odyssey controller: Magnavox Odyssey: Connectivity: Magnavox Odyssey controller port Input: 3 knobs, 1 button September 1972 [1] Shooting Gallery: Magnavox Odyssey: Connectivity: Magnavox Odyssey controller port Input: 1 trigger, photodiode: September 1972 [2] Atari CX40 joystick: Atari 2600: Connectivity: Atari joystick port
Successor. Philips Videopac+ G7400. The Magnavox Odyssey 2 (stylized as Magnavox Odyssey²), also known as Philips Odyssey 2, is a second generation home video game console that was released in 1978. It was sold in Europe as the Philips Videopac G7000, in Brazil and Peru as the Philips Odyssey and in Japan as Odyssey2 (オデッセイ2 odessei2).