![]() ![]() Each card could be used for multiple games using the static-cling color overlays. The Magnavox Odyssey was priced at $100 had came with six game cards for Tennis, Football, Hockey, Ski, Submarine, Cat & Mouse, Haunted House, Analogic, Roulette, States, Simon Says and Table Tennis. It also had programmable cards and a pump-action plastic rifle and ran on six "C" batteries. Baer¹s original "Brown Box" used color graphics, but the Odyssey had plastic screen overlays to save on costs. The latter company decided to pursue the project and created the first Odyssey prototype game in 1972. Baer held demonstration meetings with representatives from GE, RCA, Zenith, Sylvania and Magnavox. ![]() The next logical choice was the television manufacturers. However, it would take 10 more years for cable to became a viable market. Initially, Baer was hoping to sell his system to the cable industry. With a few engineers at his disposal, he created a game-playing system he called the "Brown Box," using diodes and transistors from television set technology. In 1966, while working with Sanders Associates, a military electronics development company, Baer pursued his idea with better support. ![]() That company wasn¹t very enthusiastic about Baer¹s idea. While Nolan Bushnell is generally credited as the father of the videogame industry, the title of invetor of the videogame is rightly reserved to Ralph Baer.īaer first began toying with the idea of using television for game-playing back in 1949, while working for Loral. ![]()
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