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I am not sure, I think it was some kind of Nintendo console maybe. Made in the 80's?
The Odyssey, idea created in 1966, finished in 1972. :)
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What was the first console ever made?
The first home video game console was the Magnavox Odyssey.
Who invented the video game console an which year?
In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and designed by Ralph Baer The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first video game console. It was first demonstrated in May 1972 and released that fall, predating the Atari Pong home consoles by several years. The Odyssey was designed by Ralph Baer, who had a working prototype finished by 1968. This prototype, known as the "Brown Box", is now at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Is Nintendo the oldest video game company?
No, Nintendo is just the oldest home console developers. Sony are older, but they started making consoles after Nintendo so they don't count. Nintendo is the oldest video game company. Nintendo was founded in 1889 and Sony was founded in 1946. Sega was founded in 1940 as Standard Games which would make it older than Sony also. Nintendo has also been in the video gaming business longer than any current company. They started in the video gaming business in 1973 when they released the the light gun arcade game Laser Clay Shooting System. In 1974 Nintendo secured the rights to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey game console (which was the first home video game console) in Japan. In 1977 Nintendo created it's first home console which was called the Color TV Game 6. It was never released outside of Japan. In 1980 they released their first handheld console the Game & Watch. It was a series of 60 different handheld video game units released between 1980 and 1991. The first one released in 1980 was simply named Ball. It was a game where you juggled balls in the air for as long as you could without dropping any.
How were video games first created?
a game called pong was the first home video game and the first game EVER made and it was made in good old USA
What was the first home video game?
The first home video game was introduced by a physicist called Willy Higinbotham in October 1958 at the Brookhaven Nation Laboratory in New York. This video game was similar to a tennis match and it was played on the Oscilloscope.
