Events
Magnavox Odyssey- First Console Released
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Price- $100 (equivalent to $585 in 2018)
NA: August 1972
EU: 1973
JP: 1974 (licensed to Nintendo)TV Tennis Electrotennis
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Japan Release (only)
- ¥20,000 (equivalent to $349 in 2018)Home Pong
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NA: 98.95 (equivalent to $450 in 2018)Binatone TV Master
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£35 (equivalent to £231, or $358, in 2018)
UK: 1976
NA: 1976 (licensed to Magnavox)Fairchild Channel F
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US$169.95 (equivalent to $731.00 in 2018)
The Fairchild Channel F is a home video game
console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in
November 1976 across North America at the
retail price of $169.95. It was also released in
Japan in October the following year.Atari 2600
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US$200 (equivalent to $808.00 in 2018)
EU: 1978
JP: May 1983
The Atari 2600 is a home video game
console by Atari, Inc. It is credited with the use of
microprocessor-based hardware and ROM
cartridges containing game code, format first
used with Fairchild Channel F video game
console in 1976. This format contrasts with the
older model of having non-microprocessor
dedicated hardware, which could only play the
games that were physically built into the unit.Bally Astrocade
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US$299 (equivalent to $1.21 thousand in 2018)
The Astrocade is a second generation home
video game console and simple computer
system designed by a team at Midway. It was
marketed only for a limited time before Bally
decided to exit the market. The rights were later
picked up by a third-party company, who re-
released it and sold it until around 1984.Magnavox Odyssey²
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US$200 (equivalent to $750.00 in 2018)
¥49,800
EU: December 1978
JP: 1982
BRZ: 1983
In the early 1970s, Magnavox pioneered the
home video game industry by successfully
bringing the first home console to market, the
Odyssey, which was quickly followed by a
number of later models, each with a few
technological improvements. In 1978, Magnavox,
now a subsidiary of North American Philips,
decided to release an all-new successor, Odyssey².Intellivision
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US$299 (equivalent to $888.00 in 2018)
USA: Test marketed in 1979
EU: 1982
JP: 1982
The Intellivision is a home video game console
released by Mattel Electronics. Development of
the console began in 1977, In 1984 Mattel sold
the Intellivision business to a former Mattel
Electronics executive and investors that would
become INTV Corporation. Games development
started in 1978 and continued until 1990 when
the Intellivision was discontinued.Emerson Arcadia 2001
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The Emerson Arcadia 2001 is a second-
generation 8-bit console released by Emerson
Radio Corp in 1982 following the release of
ColecoVision. It was discontinued only 18 months
later, with a total of 35 games having been released.ColecoVision
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US$199 (equivalent to $505.00 in 2018)
EU: 1982
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries' second-
generation home video-game console that was
released in August 1982. The ColecoVision
offered a closer experience to more powerful
arcade game systems compared to competitors
such as the Atari 2600, along with the means to
expand the system's basic hardware.Atari 5200
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US$270 (equivalent to $685.00 in 2018)
The Atari 5200 SuperSystem, commonly known
as the Atari 5200, is a home video game console
that was introduced in 1982 by Atari Inc. as a
higher-end complementary console for the
popular Atari 2600. The 5200 was created to
compete with the Intellivision, but wound up
more directly competing with the ColecoVision
shortly after its release.Vectrex
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US$199 (equivalent to $505.00 in 2018)
EU: May 1983
JP: June 1983
Vector display-based home video game console
that was developed by Western
Technologies/Smith Engineering. It was licensed
and distributed by General Consumer
Electronics, and then by Milton Bradley Company
after its purchase of GCE. It was released at a
retail price of $199; as Milton Bradley took over
prices dropped, before the video game crash of
1983 and finally retailed at $49 after the crash.Periods
Magnavox Odyssey series
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Discontinued- 11 consoles
US$100–230 (equivalent to $455–1046 in 2018)
NA: 1975—1978Telstar series
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14 models
US$50 (equivalent to $215 in 2018)
NA: 1976—1978Color TV-Game series
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5 consoles
¥8300–48,000 (equivalent to $122–708 in 2018)
JP: 1977—1980Golden age of arcade video games
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Video games were well established in the U.S.
amusement industry, but their popularity was
second to stalwarts of pool and pinball. While
video games had been introduced to Japan soon
after hitting the United States, the Japanese
arcade industry had remained focused
on electro-mechanical driving/shooting
games and a type of slot machine called
the "medal game" that accepted and paid out in
medals.
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