DreyfussLugado @mikesperry.com · 20/09/2026We had a Magnavox Odyssey console game when I was a kid. This was console in which all the games were hard-wired into it, but it had 6 jumper boards that you would plug into it, which would make different internal connections to change the behavior of the unit, thus giving you different games. /1 100
DreyfussLugado @mikesperry.com · 20/09/2026The graphics were just white blocks on a black screen. No color or other shapes. There were plastic overlays that you would tape to your TV screen for the different games. There was a tennis game (essentially Pong, long before Pong was a thing), a haunted house game (you move your cursor into /2 100
DreyfussLugado @mikesperry.com · 20/09/2026different windows of the overlay, trying to avoid the ghost) and a number of other games. It had two controllers, hard plastic with sharp corners, shaped a bit like truncated pyramids. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...americanhistory.si.eduMagnavox Odyssey Video Game Unit, 1972When most people think about the first video game, they think of Pong, the ping-pong arcade game released by Atari in 1972. However, months earlier, Magnavox… 010