{"id":868,"date":"2012-05-28T12:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-28T17:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=868"},"modified":"2015-09-29T11:00:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T16:00:15","slug":"inside-the-magnavox-odyssey-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/868\/inside-the-magnavox-odyssey-40th-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Magnavox Odyssey (40th Anniversary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/256101\/inside_the_magnavox_odyssey_the_first_video_game_console.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/pcworld\/inside_odyssey_small.jpg\" alt=\"Inside the Magnavox Odyssey Teardown Slideshow\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Believe it or not, it&#8217;s been almost two years since I did <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/703\" target=\"_blank\">my last tech teardown<\/a> slideshow for PC World.  After 11 visual disassemblies with my haggard workbench as a backdrop, I figured I&#8217;d give the series a rest until an interesting new venue came along.<\/p>\n<p>Fast forward to April 2012 &#8212; it was a beautiful spring day outside, and I had decided to take apart a 1972 Magnavox Odyssey (the first commercial video game console) in honor of its 40th anniversary.  I walked out to my back yard, sat down on the moss, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/256101\/inside_the_magnavox_odyssey_the_first_video_game_console.html\" target=\"_blank\">the result<\/a> is now up on PCWorld.com.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Here are my previous tech teardowns: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/207891\/inside_the_nintendo_entertainment_system.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo NES<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/191766\/inside_the_atari_1040stf.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 1040STf<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/181421\/inside_the_atari_800.html\" target=\"_blank\">Atari 800<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/200083\/inside_the_amiga_1000.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore Amiga 1000<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/152528\/inside_the_commodore_64.html\" target=\"_blank\">Commodore 64<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/162588\/gadget_autopsy_the_nintendo_game_boy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Game Boy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/148391\/article.html\" target=\"_blank\">Nintendo Famicom<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/143520-2\/anatomy_of_an_icon_inside_the_apple_iic.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple IIc<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/147939\/inside_the_worlds_greatest_keyboard.html\" target=\"_blank\">IBM Model M Keyboard<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcworld.com\/article\/146496\/inside_a_classic_the_trs80_model_100.html\" target=\"_blank\">TRS-80 Model 100<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/technologizer.com\/2009\/09\/20\/inside-the-macintosh-portable\/\" target=\"_blank\">Macintosh Portable<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Believe it or not, it&#8217;s been almost two years since I did my last tech teardown slideshow for PC World. After 11 visual disassemblies with my haggard workbench as a backdrop, I figured I&#8217;d give the series a rest until an interesting new venue came along. Fast forward to April 2012 &#8212; it was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,13,21,9],"tags":[84,83,88,82,74,89,90,73,87],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-design","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-news-current-events","category-retrogaming","tag-84","tag-anniversaries","tag-freelance-work","tag-magnavox","tag-magnavox-odyssey","tag-moss","tag-pc-world","tag-ralph-baer","tag-teardowns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}