Most of the games were two player only, and consisted almost exclusively of two white blocks on the screen which the players could move via dial controllers. Most of the games on the Magnavox bear little resemblance to the games of today.
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The system however used cartridges to tell the system which game (or series of games) to play. Most (if not all) of the games were built into the system itself. This made it so pointing the gun at any light source would count as a hit. It would recognize any light source as the screen.
However, you would not need to point the light gun at the screen to be successful. The Odyssey also had the first optical video game light gun, which was made for the Odyssey game Shooting Gallery. Magnavox settled or won many court cases against various companies including Nolan Bushnell for eerie resemblance between Bushnell's Pong and Tennis for the Odyssey. The Odyssey's sales were poor due to bad marketing by Magnavox retail stores and the consumer misconception that the Odyssey only worked on Magnavox televisions. The prototype Odyssey (referred to as the "Brown Box") that Baer got to work in 1968 is now in the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. It was released in Fall of 1972 and was designed by Ralph Baer in 1968. The Magnavox Odyssey is the very first video game system.
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