Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's ...

The popularity of Pong directly helped the sales of the Odyssey console that year, when it was "discovered" that the console had a "similar" game. By the end of the year, Magnavox had sold 100,000 ...

In a very real way, Pong started the video game revolution. ... Pong seemed like a good choice, so he whipped up a handheld console with a Raspberry Pi Pico W and a 240×135-px LCD display.

Before the NES and even before Pong, the Magnavox Odyssey braved the frontier as the first home video game console. Here's what it was capable of.