IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. When most people think about the ...

If someone asked you to name the very first video game console, what would you say? The Nintendo Entertainment System? No, that launched in 1983, well into the game industry's life. The Atari 2600?

Pitt Professor Zachary Horton holds up the overlay for the Odyssey game Haunted House. The very first video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is being recreated in an ongoing project that aims to ...

What was the first video game console? If you said the Atari 2600, you would be wrong, but we’d forgive you. After all, the Atari was early and widely sold. It also had the major features you expect ...

Students at the University of Pittsburgh’s Vibrant Media Lab are re-engineering the Magnavox Odyssey, the first-ever commercial home video game console released in 1972. About 350,000 Magnavox Odyssey ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Tennessee — Before Nintendo and Atari, before pixels danced across screens in arcades and bedrooms, before gaming became a multi-billion-dollar industry, it began in silence. No sound ...

There’s a great piece of sleuthing and historical recreation over at The Videogame History Foundation, where Kate Willaert chronicles her attempt to track down the first video game commercial. She ...