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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 ...
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 ...
Magnavox Theatre. Magnavox Theatre is an American television anthology of comedies and dramas that aired seven hour-long episodes on CBS in 1950, alternating weekly with Ford Theatre. [1] The first episodes were live, with filmed episodes later on. Episode six ( The Three Musketeers ), according to CBS, was the first hour-long film made in ...
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 ...
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.
Take the Money and Run! The Great Wall Street Fortune Hunt. Thunderball! Turtles! 🗣. Type & Tell! 🗣. UFO! Volleyball! War of Nerves! Only three games: Nimble Numbers Ned!, Power Lords and Sid the Spellbinder! were released on Odyssey 2, but not on Philips VideoPac.
K.C. Munchkin!, released in Europe as Munchkin, is a maze game for the Magnavox Odyssey 2. Its North American title is an inside reference to then president of Philips Consumer Electronics, Kenneth C. Menkin. Designed and programmed by Ed Averett, Munchkin is very heavily based on Namco's 1980 arcade game Pac-Man, but not a direct clone.
Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra. Magnavox Presents Frank Sinatra (or Ol' Blue Eyes Is Back) is an NBC musical television special starring Frank Sinatra broadcast on November 18, 1973. The special was written by Fred Ebb, directed by Marty Pasetta, and produced by Howard W. Koch. [1] [2] The announcer for the special was Hank Simms. [2]