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You mean like the Magnavox Odyssey, which Bushnell always freely admitted to ripping off?
by empressplay 6mo ago
You mean like the Magnavox Odyssey, which Bushnell always freely admitted to ripping off?
- JKCalhoun 6mo agoI never saw the Odyssey—unless it was that one night when I saw something in the window of a closed shop that was the first pong-like video game I had ever seen. You're probably right, the Odyssey is probably as good a contender as Pong. But somehow everyone knows "Pong" (and of course Atari).
- jnaina 6mo agoThere was also the IBM Simon, the first smartphone, before the iPhone came about. History tends to remember the product that made the category matter, not the one that technically got there first.