Magnavox (Latin for "great voice", stylized as MAGNAVOX or sometimes Magnavox in Australia) was an American electronics company. It was purchased by North...
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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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Odyssey series (redirect from Magnavox Odyssey 200)
Magnavox Odyssey is the general brand name of Magnavox's complete line of home video game consoles released from 1972 through 1978. The line includes the...
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Pong (section Lawsuit from Magnavox)
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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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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consoles of the first generation include the Odyssey series (excluding the Magnavox Odyssey 2), the Atari Home Pong, the Coleco Telstar series and the Color...
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Philips Videopac+ G7400 (redirect from Magnavox Odyssey3)
to the Philips Videopac G7000, the European counterpart to the American Magnavox Odyssey². The system featured excellently tailored background and foreground...
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Philips Computers (section Magnavox)
grey notebook) Magnavox M16034GY System 160 Magnavox M1101GY System 110 Magnavox M38044GY System 380 Magnavox M58044GY System 580SX Magnavox Headstart 286...
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Interton Video 2000 LeapFrog Leapster LeapPad LeapTV Magnavox / Philips Magnavox Odyssey Magnavox Odyssey 2 / Philips Videopac G7000 Mattel Intellivision...
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Magnavox Theatre is an American television anthology of comedies and dramas that aired seven hour-long episodes on CBS in 1950, alternating weekly with...
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Philips (redirect from Phillips-Magnavox)
listing on the New York Stock Exchange. Acquisitions included Signetics and Magnavox. It also founded a multidisciplinary sports club called PSV Eindhoven in...
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which became the basis for early microcomputer games. May 3 – Magnavox initiates their “Magnavox Profit Caravan” series of traveling shows to demonstrate all...
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the 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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products in the US, along with Funai-licensed brands including Philips, Magnavox, Emerson Radio, and Sanyo. Funai is the main supplier of electronics to...
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was a Danish American engineer, inventor and entrepreneur. He founded Magnavox Company and Jensen Radio Manufacturing Company. Peter Laurits Jensen was...
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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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technology to contemporary major TV manufacturer Magnavox. This resulted in the 1972 release of the Magnavox Odyssey—the first commercially available video...
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K.C. Munchkin! (category Magnavox Odyssey 2 games)
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...
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a license from Magnavox production of its own Pong clone game consoles. Magnavox created the original concept for Pong for its Magnavox Odyssey console...
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Greeneville, Tennessee (section Magnavox)
to 2005, Magnavox—an electronics manufacturer best known for its television sets—operated its main three facilities in Greeneville. Magnavox was at one...
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AM stereo (section Magnavox System)
the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) selected the Magnavox system as the official AM stereo standard. The FCC's research is immediately...
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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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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...
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its 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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the first efforts to create video game consoles after the release of Magnavox's Odyssey became available in the United States and Europe. January 31 –...
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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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year. By 1975, Atari had released a Pong home console, competing against Magnavox, the only other major producer of home consoles at the time. Atari engineers...
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games on a television screen in 1966, which later became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Inspired by the table tennis game on the Odyssey, Nolan...
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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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