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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...
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    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...
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  • includes the original Magnavox Odyssey console, the Magnavox Odyssey series of dedicated home video game consoles, and the Magnavox Odyssey 2 ROM cartridge-based...
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    of games for the Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game console. In the United States the following 47 game titles were released by Magnavox. Alien Invaders -...
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    the Philips Videopac G7000, the European counterpart to the American Magnavox Odyssey². The system featured excellently tailored background and foreground...
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  • number 1,105,924 for telephone receivers. Six decades later, Magnavox produced the Odyssey, the world's first home video game console. On January 29, 2013...
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    electronic ping-pong game included in the Magnavox Odyssey, the first home video game console. In response, Magnavox later sued Atari for patent infringement...
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  • Notable consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2), the Atari Home Pong, the Coleco Telstar series and...
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  • The first console that played games on a television set was the 1972 Magnavox Odyssey, first conceived by Ralph H. Baer in 1966. Handheld consoles originated...
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  • Fairchild Channel F. This was followed by the Atari 2600 in 1977, Magnavox Odyssey² in 1978, Intellivision in 1980 and then the Emerson Arcadia 2001,...
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    technology to contemporary major TV manufacturer Magnavox. This resulted in the 1972 release of the Magnavox Odyssey—the first commercially available video game...
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  • This is a list of light-gun games, video games that use a non-fixed gun controller, organized by the arcade, video game console or home computer system...
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  • consoles Magnavox Odyssey, the first commercial home video game console Magnavox Odyssey 2, second generation home video game console Odyssey, an expansion...
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    which later became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Inspired by the table tennis game on the Odyssey, Nolan Bushnell, Ted Dabney, and Allan...
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    released in the early 1970s. The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey, and the first arcade video games were Computer Space and Pong. After...
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    blueprint for the first home video game console, licensed by Magnavox as the Magnavox Odyssey. Baer continued to design several other consoles and computer...
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  • generation and the rarest game on the Magnavox Odyssey 2. It is considered the holy grail of the Magnavox Odyssey 2 video game system due to its rarity...
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    equipped with an EPOCH TV-1 video processor, uses a 16-color palette. The Magnavox Odyssey 2 is equipped with an Intel 8244 (NTSC) or 8245 (PAL) custom IC, and...
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    numerous home video game consoles since the first commercial unit, the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Historically these consoles have been grouped into generations...
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  • Race – Spin-out – Cryptogram (category Magnavox Odyssey 2 games)
    and Cryptogram. In the United States, it was distributed for the Magnavox Odyssey² as Speedway / Spin-out / Cryptologic. Race is a fairly simple game...
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  • Pickaxe Pete (category Magnavox Odyssey 2 games)
    for the Magnavox Odyssey² as Pick Axe Pete!. In Brazil, it was re-branded as Didi na Mina Encantada (Didi in the Enchanted Mine) for the Odyssey. Pickaxe...
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  • Odyssey units sold per year contradict those of official figures disclosed by Magnavox in 1974. 1972 in games "Agreed Statement of Facts". Magnavox Company...
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    inventions and licensed them to Magnavox, which commercialized it as the first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972. Separately...
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  • beginning of the first generation of video game consoles with the Magnavox Odyssey, both in 1972). During this time there was a wide range of devices...
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  • Frogger (category Magnavox Odyssey 2 games)
    Frogger is a 1981 arcade action game developed by Konami and published by Sega. In North America, it was distributed by Sega/Gremlin. The object of the...
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  • of the final product was granted to Magnavox, a home electronics company, and sold under the name Magnavox Odyssey. The company was founded in Waltham...
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    generation of consoles were on sale between 1972 and 1980 and included the Magnavox Odyssey, Telstar, Home Pong, and Color TV-Game. Typical characteristics of...
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    consoles was introduced with the first generation video game console Magnavox Odyssey in 1972, using jumper cards to turn on and off certain electronics...
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    Trail and the Magnavox Odyssey console are first publicly tested in this period. March 11 – A preliminary agreement is signed between Magnavox and Sanders...
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  • K.C. Munchkin! (category Magnavox Odyssey 2 games)
    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...
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