March 2002
Video Game Odyssey
The start of a worldwide obsession: white dots on a TV screen.
By Technology Review
In the United States, people spend about as much money on home video games as they spend going to the movies. And the multibillion-dollar industry shows little sign of slowing down: Microsoft's Xbox, released last November, shipped more than a million units in less than a month. But the first home video game system, Magnavox's Odyssey, took over 20 years just to get off the ground.
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