The 1st generation consoles

The first generation of video game consoles began in 1972, with the launch of the Magnavox Odyssey, and lasted until 1977, when the manufacturers of “pong” type consoles left the market en masse for the introduction and success of microprocessor-based consoles. The idea of an “interactive television” came to engineer and inventor Ralph Baer in 1951, (he is commissioned to design and create Television equipment; one of the ideas Baer proposed is the creation of simple interactive games installed in the television set) while building a television set for Loral Corporation in the Bronx borough of New York. He worked further on this idea in 1966, when he was chief engineer and manager of the Equipment Design Division at Sander Associates, resulting in a simple two-player video game that could be displayed on a standard television set. The game was called Chase, and in it two dots moved across the screen trying to chase each other. After a demonstration before the company's director, Herbert Campman, some funds were raised for the project, which at that point became “official”. In 1967 it was brought before Bill Harrison, the company's director of Research and Development, a gun-shaped controller was built from a toy rifle that was aimed at a target controlled by another player.

1st generation consoles list

This is a list of the most important 1st generation consoles and your characteristics.