Today in Video Game History: Birth of the Magnavox Odyssey
By Kill Screen 256
Today in 1970, Inventor Ralph Baer demonstrates his video game system to engineers at Magnavox.
Two years later Magnavox Odyssey is released.
…and here is the awesome looking Odyssey 2 from 1978.
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The Retroist
July 18th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
Love the today in Video Game History idea AND I love that box.
HFK
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:04 pm
This isn’t an Odyssey but an Odyssey II which came out in ’78.
The Retroist
July 22nd, 2009 at 5:20 pm
HFK – we didn’t have an image on hand when we posted, but it has since been updated.
Luna
September 5th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
I had this and the first one and I swear the only game we had for it was the legend of zelda think I will go dig it out of the old cubby hole.
Rita
April 5th, 2010 at 8:54 am
I had this system. It was so cool. I had KC Munkchin (The Pac Man copy that was short lived when Atari sued), baseball, something with a big dragon, that my have been Zelda. Ahh, that games would be so easy to control again! LOL The Intellivision confused me with all the buttons on the paddles.
Keith
August 28th, 2010 at 1:34 pm
I loved this game system back in the day, is this one for sale or does anyone know were to buy used odyssey2 game system and the games that go with it, thanks.