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The Magnavox Odyssey is the world’s first commercial home video game console. It was first demonstrated in April 1972 and released in August of that year predating the Atari Pong home consoles by three years. It is a digital video game console though is often mistakenly believed to be analog due to misunderstanding of its hardware design (see Design).The Odyssey was designed by Ralph Baer who began around 1966 and had a working prototype finished by 1968.
