Nowadays, video game consoles are a ubiquitous piece of hardware in many households. Maybe you have a Switch hooked up in the living room, an Xbox sitting beside your PC, a PlayStation standing ...

First generation: 1972 – 1983 Magnavox. Going all the way back to the origins of home consoles, we are at a point where most games don’t even resemble the experiences we have today.

The world's first video game console was made in East Tennessee. The Magnavox Odyssey, manufactured in Jefferson City, started the video game revolution in 1972 with its innovative design and concept.

Mr. Parkin is a writer and the host of “My Perfect Console,” an interview-based podcast about video games. When I was a child in the 1990s, I began my campaign for my first video game console ...

Specifically, Nintendo announced earlier today that, in the first four days of availability, it had sold 3.5 million units of the new console, which builds on the hybrid “portable, but you can also ...