Magnavox, along with Sanders Associates, would eventually sue Atari for copyright infringement. In 1975, Atari released a home version of Pong, which was as successful as its arcade counterpart. Yet, one of the Odyssey’s 28 games was the inspiration for Atari’s Pong, the first arcade video game, which the company released in 1972. Over the next few years, the primitive Odyssey console would commercially fizzle and die out. It was known as “The Brown Box.”īaer, who’s sometimes referred to as Father of Video Games, licensed his device to Magnavox, which sold the system to consumers as the Odyssey, the first video game home console, in 1972.
In 1967, developers at Sanders Associates, Inc., led by Ralph Baer, invented a prototype multiplayer, multi-program video game system that could be played on a television.
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