The console that bet on a keyboard. Magnavox’s Odyssey² (Philips’ Videopac in Europe) answered the Atari 2600 with a built-in keyboard, board-game hybrids, a talking voice module and one programmer’s entire library – then outlived its American cancellation in Europe and Brazil. This page is the complete story, from Ralph Baer’s Brown Box lineage to the K.C. Munchkin lawsuit that defined game copyright.
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The Legacy of Ralph Baer – the founding father of home video games, whose Brown Box began the lineage this console inherited.
Its great American rival, the thinking person’s other console: the Intellivision.
