Way more interesting were… That honour goes to the aptly-named Shooting Gallery, a hardware/software combo for the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first home video game console. Like the Magnavox ...

The Magnavox Odyssey featured an unconventional design ... American football field, a haunted house, shooting gallery, a casino and more. However, a lot of imagination was required and players ...

The Magnavox Odyssey’s controller had some complexity ... a shooting rifle that players could aim on the screen to play gallery shooting games. The Odyssey would have been the first video ...

Shooting Gallery, in today's games like Call of Duty. Despite its early innovation, the Magnavox Odyssey would be quickly overshadowed by the rapid pace of the market it created. Atari ...

While there was an optional AC power cord available for purchase separately, Magnavox expected that most consumers would power the Odyssey using six C batteries that were included with the system.

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 ...

Close, but the real progenitor of home gaming actually managed to beat out the 1972 release of "Pong" by just a few months: ...

As Baer looked out at the firing squad of suited Magnavox ... develop the Odyssey, a machine that, upon its release in mid-September 1972, would enable kids and adults alike to play computerized ...