Game Console History

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Magnavox Odyssey (1ST generation)

27 May, 1972

This game console was made in 1972 over 330,000 were sold and the best selling game on it was a table tennis game. Here are a list of games:

  • Baseball
  • Basketball
  • Brain Wave
  • Cat & Mouse
  • Dogfight
  • Football
  • Fun Zoo
  • Handball
  • Haunted House
  • Hockey
  • Invasion
  • Interplanetary Voyage
  • Percepts
  • Prehistoric Safari
  • Roulette
  • Shooting Gallery
  • Shootout
  • Simon Says
  • Ski
  • Soccer
  • States
  • Submarine
  • Table Tennis
  • Tennis
  • Volleyball
  • Win
  • Wipeout

All these games were on the Magnavox Odyssey this is a lot of games for a old game stations.

Most of the games were in black and white and was originally going too be used help military to help with there reflexes. The games were only 2D games which are very basic but it is only one of the first ever game stations.

Brown box (1ST generation)

27 Jan, 1972

In January 27 1972 Magnavox launched Baer's brown box technology as the Odyssey video game console the world's first home video game for only $100. The Odyssey has simple black-and-white graphics. The Brown Box is made out of plastic and the front of it is made form wood

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The brown box also had a gun with it the gun was very basic wooden design and was wired this cost an extra $50

 1 Oct, 1977

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Sega SG-1000 (2ND Generation)

 

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All these games are on the SG-1000 most are black and white. This is one of the world’s best game consoles at its time.

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