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A little gaming history

In this 1969 movie, inventor Ralph Baer and technician Bill Harrison play around with what would eventually be sold as the Magnavox Odyssey — the first home video game console ever made.

For more information, please see the April 2007 issue of Boys’ Life magazine.

Click here to try an online version of the classic game.

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1. 49 - foot says:
   August 25th, 2008 at 11:30 am

   wow ppl were so dumb then. they didnt know how to make our modern graphics. how sad. stupid pixels.

2. 48 - Genre says:
   August 2nd, 2007 at 10:03 pm

   *annoyed*

3. 47 - XRAY says:
   July 21st, 2007 at 10:23 am

   doesent black and white SUCK!

4. 46 - Sneezy says:
   July 4th, 2007 at 10:13 am

   wow and people said 64’s are ancient i have a maxxplay and it is old and i think the shooting arcade games came from it and the controlor looks like a 64.

5. 45 - Centy says:
   June 17th, 2007 at 3:04 pm

   I thought Pong would stink since it is sssooooooo!!!!!!!!! old, but it rocks!

6. 44 - hot rod says:
   June 16th, 2007 at 10:28 am

   Am I suposed to laugh?

7. 43 - Venom says:
   May 23rd, 2007 at 10:10 am

   is cool

8. 42 - Michael says:
   May 16th, 2007 at 9:52 pm

   I LOVE video games!!!!!!! Do you???!!!

9. 41 - spiderman says:
   May 13th, 2007 at 11:00 am

   so awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

10. 40 - rap says:
    May 11th, 2007 at 4:11 pm

    i didn’t watch it because i knew it would suck

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