#pong console

I bought a new system today which brings my collection up to 50 gaming consoles. The best triangular gaming console money can buy.

Anyone remember Magnavox? That word you still see written on philips products sometimes? Well they actually used to be their own company, and they made things like TVs and video game consoles, in fact they made the odyssey, the first video game console to be sold on store shelves.

After the original odyssey, they released more consoles in the odyssey series, each one given a number. Unlike the original, these numbered consoles did not use interchangeable cartridges, they instead came with preprogrammed variations of the game pong hence the term “pong console”.

One thing about pong consoles, is that many, including all but two of the odyssey series, had the option to be powered by batteries. And I’m not talking about the double As in your modern controller, I’m talking about C batteries, which I didn’t even know about until I heard about them in an episode of angry video game nerd.

“But tron” you might be asking “Why would they give you the option to use batteries?” Because they didn’t sell the console with an ac adapter. That’s right, no ac adapter. You had to buy it separately at a Magnavox dealer (yeah, dealer, like a car dealer but with TVs and music players and shit like that) and what’s more; there was still space in the styrofoam in the box specifically for the adapter, implying that they were originally going to include the adapter but instead thought; “these assholes had the audacity to buy our products, and they will suffer the consequences” and decided to squeeze every cent they could out of their costumers while also wasting their time by making them take multiple trips to the dealer.

No it’s actually just an old pong console.