The Magnavox Odyssey Commercial from 1972 #VintageComputing #Gaming
Posted on YouTube by A Critical Hit! The Magnavox Odyssey console came out in 1972.
The Magnavox Odyssey is the first commercial home video game console. It was developed by a small team led by Ralph H. Baer at Sanders Associates and released by Magnavox in the United States in September 1972 and overseas the following year. The Odyssey consists of a white, black, and brown box which connects to a television set, and two rectangular controllers attached by wires. It is capable of displaying three square dots on the screen in monochrome black and white, with differing behavior for the dots depending on the game played, and with no sound capabilities. Players place plastic overlays on the screen to create visuals, and the one or two players for each game control their dots with the three knobs and one button on the controller in accordance with the rules given for the game. The Odyssey console came packaged with dice, paper money, and other board game paraphernalia to go along with the games, and a peripheral controller—the first video game light gun—was sold separately.
The first video game commercial too. Produced by Magnavox, digitized by David Winter, file distributed by Ralph Baer, first uploaded by Video Game Saga, color corrected by Kate Willaert.
You can read up on Odyssey via Wikipedia.
