2/17/2024 0 Comments Magnavox odyssey 300![]() But Baer and his team of engineers were the first, and it all started in that room of unimpressed Indiana executives half a century ago. ![]() Today, more than 3 billion people play video games. Baer saw the TV in the corner of his living room and thought there was so much more we could do with this.”įifty years after the Odyssey went on sale for $99.95, the practice of playing on our screens has grown into a $300 billion global industry. “All you could do is sit back and watch the nightly news or Andy Griffith or whatever these networks deemed worthy of your attention. “When this thing was being pitched, there were only three broadcast networks,” says Alexander Smith, video-game historian and author of 2019’s They Create Worlds: The Story of the People and Companies That Shaped the Video Game Industry. More than inventing the idea of a modern video game, Baer was about to introduce the world to the concept of interactivity, years before the buzzword was coined. Over the ensuing months, Baer and technician Bill Harrison would make frequent trips to Fort Wayne to help develop the Odyssey, a machine that, upon its release in mid-September 1972, would enable kids and adults alike to play computerized simulations of volleyball, hockey, target shooting (hence the rifle), golf (the real putter), and, most famously, pingpong in their own living rooms, basements, and bedrooms. Those four simple words not only instantly lifted the gloom in the room, not to mention eventually fulfilled Baer’s dream of transforming the TV industry-but Martin’s decision in that Indiana boardroom would go on to fundamentally alter everyday life for generations to come. The vice president and general manager for console products, Martin had the conviction of a businessman who saw dollar signs: “We’re going with this.”īaer’s so-called “Brown Box” was an early prototype of what would come to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video-game console. That lone enthusiastic smile belonged to Gerry Martin, whose opinion was the only one that mattered. But once again, Baer’s audience seemed underwhelmed.Īs Baer looked out at the firing squad of suited Magnavox executives seated around the long, dark conference table, all he saw were glum faces. It was essentially the world’s first video game. Two dots, one on either side of the line, represented pingpong paddles zipping up and down to “hit” the third dot (the ball) back and forth. To his mind, it was all on the screen next to him: one white vertical line bisecting the black field and three white dots. Still, Baer persisted in his belief that his machine would change the way people thought about their televisions. Baer was an engineer from New Hampshire, and he had just finished a demonstration of his latest invention, a presentation that had previously been rejected by several companies, including Magnavox. As with all previous Odyssey units, power is delivered via an AC adapter or six "C" cell batteries.On July 17, 1969, German-born Ralph Baer found himself standing beside a 19-inch TV at the front of the Magnavox corporate boardroom in Fort Wayne holding a putter, a plastic rifle, and a mysterious box wrapped in brown wood-grain vinyl tape. Odyssey 500 offers automatic serve, displays digital on-screen scores between plays, and provides manually adjustable ball speed control. Interestingly, while Magnavox exploited the "mismatching" of players and playfields to market the Odyssey 500 as having a fourth game, the remaining five possible game combinations were not advertised or documented. The Odyssey 500's manual acknowledged that the player graphics, being of different sizes, essentially represented different difficulty options. Unlike the Odyssey 400, however, the 500 does not support four onscreen "players." ![]() In addition to the Smash, Hockey, and Tennis games, Odyssey 500 featured a fourth game, Soccer, by using the squash player graphics with the hockey playing field. The three players and three playfields were each chosen by separate toggle switches games were thus selected by matching the player to its appropriate playfield. The 500 featured color graphics (the first Odyssey game unit to do so) and replaced the standard paddles with sprites representing the athletes of its various games: a tennis player, a squash player, and a hockey player. The Odyssey 500 is essentially a deluxe version of the Odyssey 400 with several crucial improvements. The Magnavox Odyssey 500 (model number: 7520) was released in 1976 as Magnavox's high-end companion to the Odyssey 300 and Odyssey 400 systems.
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