Magnavox Odyssey
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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 rel
A Magnavox Odyssey with a controller
An Odyssey controller
Table Tennis game for the Odyssey with the console on a CRT television, without any overlay
The inside of the Magnavox Odyssey showing its motherboard and battery compartment
Pong
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Pong is a 1972 sports video game developed and published by Atari, Inc. for arcades. It was created by Allan Alcorn as a training exercise assigned to him by Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell. Bushnell
Magnavox Odyssey
…as well as the 1978 Magnavox Odyssey 2. One of the 28 games made for the system, a ping-pong game, was an inspiration for Atari's successful 1972 Pong arcade game, in turn driving sales of the Odyssey. Patents by Baer and the other developers for the system and the games, including what was termed by…
An upright cabinet of Pong on display at the Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Atari engineer Allan Alcorn designed and built Pong as a training exercise.
The Pong prototype that was used in the tavern
The former site of Andy Capp's Tavern in 2023, which was replaced by the Rooster T. Feathers comedy club in 1984