Odysseus Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 SO i read that Nintendos first venture was to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey system in Japan in 1974. Kind of odd. Does anyone know anything more about this. This console would be a peice of history. It would have stared Nintendo into the market and would also have Spread the odyssey even further away Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godslabrat Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 SO i read that Nintendos first venture was to distribute the Magnavox Odyssey system in Japan in 1974. Kind of odd. Does anyone know anything more about this. This console would be a peice of history. It would have stared Nintendo into the market and would also have Spread the odyssey even further away Wikipedia mentions the Odyssey link (providing it's accurate) but I was always under the impression that EVR Race was the first video-game related venture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny_boy Posted March 25, 2010 Share Posted March 25, 2010 (edited) Related to this, it's interesting to note that Nintendo's first home consoles were the Color TV Game series, from 1977 to '79. Each dedicated console played a type of game. http://en.wikipedia....i/Color_TV_Game 1977 - Color TV Game 6 contained 6 variations of "Light Tennis" (or Pong) 1978 - Color TV Game 15 15 slightly different versions of Light Tennis 1978 - Color TV Racing 112 bird's-eye-view racing game, steering wheel and gearshift or two small controllers for multiplayer 1979 - Color TV Game Block Breaker ported version of "Block Breaker", arcade game based on Atari's Breakout 1980 - Computer TV Game port of Nintendo's first video arcade game, Computer Othello Edited March 25, 2010 by johnny_boy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Odysseus Posted March 25, 2010 Author Share Posted March 25, 2010 See thats why this kinda matters. If they were involved with odyssey it beat EVR race by a year. Kinda odd. Im trying to confirm this with Ralph Baer. He had never heard of it though that doesnt make it not true Was it on wikipedia. I read it elsewhere Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Video Posted March 27, 2010 Share Posted March 27, 2010 Nintendo may have marketed it, but the TVGAMES series was their first system I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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