The gaming industry is in mourning this week following the news that one of its founding fathers, Ralph H Baer, has passed away at the age of 92. Baer was a true pioneer of the medium, responsible for ...

Forty years ago, Magnavox lifted the veil on the world’s first commercial video game console, the Odyssey. Designed to work with a home TV set, the Odyssey blazed a trail that every game console ...

Curtis International Ltd. has acquired the iconic consumer electronics Magnavox brand, marking a significant milestone as Curtis International takes the helm of a brand that has been a household name ...

Oh man, the iFixit crew just hopped up another step on the Stairway to Awesome. They have opened up and explored a Magnavox Odyssey 100, successor to the world's first home games-console. Kyle Wiens ...

Today, creating a ground-breaking video game is akin to making a movie. You need a story, graphic artists, music, and more. But until the middle of the 20th century, there were no video games. While ...

Funai Corporation, Inc. today introduced the new Magnavox 4K UHD Roku TV series designed to work with Google Assistant devices. Available in Spring 2019, the series will offer display sizes ranging ...

The Odyssey pre-dates Space Invaders by six years and its controllers were suitably alien: huge boxes with two knobs to adjust your horizontal and vertical position. Ah, the 1970s. A decade of ...

The first home video game system had a lot of the right ideas, just not at the right time Drew Robarge The Magnavox Odyssey with its cover box, controllers, and carts. (2006.0102.08) NMAH In September ...

What was the first video game console? If you said the Atari 2600, you would be wrong, but we’d forgive you. After all, the Atari was early and widely sold. It also had the major features you expect ...

Although it runs only sixth among the nation’s television makers, New York’s Magnavox Co. outdistances most of the field in spectacular sales growth. With the exception of 1963, it has broken its own ...