The Magnavox Odyssey was showcased on the BBC 's Tomorrow 's World 50 years ago today. It was a basic but visionary design, and led to today's multi-billion-pound industry.
This peripheral is ghostly good.
Xenomorph, a spiritual successor from the Atari Jaguar Alien vs Predator game has been announced from developer Athena Worlds.
AvP on the Jag was pretty ambitious for the time. I always wondered what a smoother (faster) frame rate would have done for that game. nice to see a spiritual sequel is in the works after all these years.
Today, popular control peripheral manufacturer Virpil made the CDT-Aeromax flight stick available for pre-order.
"video game console" is a very loose term to describe this thing. It played pong, albeit poorly, and then a bunch of other games that required the use of overlays on the TV to give the appearance of different games.
Let’s see
Uses a cartridge…..check
Hooks to tv……check
Controllers…..check
Doesn’t play anything but games…..check
Sounds like all the ingredients of a console….check
Actually the Fairchild Channel F is the first home video game console to include interchangeable cartridges.
I remember watching Tomorrow's world every week, i loved it. especially when they did the world reveal of the "compact disc" lol
It looks like the next Bethesda game.