The Magnavox Odyssey, manufactured in Jefferson City, started the video game revolution in 1972 with its innovative design ...

The Odyssey also introduced the first-ever video game peripheral: a light rifle, made by Nintendo. Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell saw an Odyssey demo and shortly after released Pong.

From analog sticks to motion controls, these are the games that didn’t just launch on a console; they defined what it could ...

What you wouldn't expect to appear in that list is the Atari 2600, a 48-year-old home video game console best known for bringing Pac-Man into the living rooms of millions of first-generation gamers.

A $100 home video game console called the Magnavox Odyssey, which connected to a TV, had been a source of Bushnell’s inspiration. Odyssey did not produce sound or display a score, and the three square ...

Daniel Ahmad, director of research and insights at Niko Partners, points out on X that the Switch 2 is “the fastest selling ...

It even had physics! No wonder why Tennis for Two is considered the great grand-pappy of video games – the parallels between it and 1972’s Pong are clear to see.

Fans of the PS1 will be happy to hear that four of these new additions will be from Sony’s first video game console. More importantly, they are from two of the console’s most iconic franchises.

Nintendo said Wednesday it had sold a record 3.5 million Switch 2 units worldwide in the first four days after the console was launched. “This is the highest global sales level for any Nintendo ...

In an unusual face-off between old-school gaming and modern AI, ChatGPT recently lost a chess game to a video game console from 1970s — the Atari 2600. The match was the brainchild of Robert ...

This portable device was the first-ever video game console that could properly display 3D visuals. Merely 22 games were ever released for the system, with Mario's Tennis, 3D Tetris, and Virtual ...