[game_preservation] Release date of the Odyssey?

[Andreas Lange]

Dear Devin,
because we recently celebrated the Odyssey anniversary allready 
(http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1247_CSM_Insider_Talk.htm?nId=27) I 
asked Ralph for the exact release date. He answers me "The Odyssey was 
shown to the trade in multiple locations in May of 1972, one of which I 
attended in a restaurant in Central Park in New York (It's all in my 
book)." The first release/ selling day he couldn't remember resp. I 
assume that back then these kind of dates weren't tracked that well like 
today specially for computer games.
btw: On that occasion we have uploaded the whole video, in which the 
well known Brown Box demonstration is only one part of (in the middle) 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKrhbp-syh8&list=UUPY0C1H0jhPFmA1ryHpjIUQ&feature=plcp). 
Interestingly everything is recorded only in 1973, which means that the 
Brown Box demonstration was kind of retrospective.

Andreas

Am 07.08.2012 17:17, schrieb Devin Monnens:

> Do we have a more accurate release date for the Odyssey than 'August 1972'?

> I know there was a big hullaballoo about how nobody knows the release date

> of Super Mario Bros., but one would think there would be better

> documentation from Magnavox (such as Sears ads).

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> -Devin

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