[game_preservation] Release date of the Odyssey?
Henry Lowood
lowood at stanford.edu
Thu Aug 9 13:14:59 EDT 2012
Frank,
Correction: Article is available /on-line/ (for pay) at
newspaperarchive.com. :) It's available at various places on
microform and paper.
I checked the Chicago Tribune database, and they have a 1 July 1972
article on the Odyssey. I have attached it. This article is saying
"expected" release in "late August" in Chicago and 18 other market areas.
Henry
On 8/9/2012 9:59 AM, Frank Cifaldi wrote:
> BREAKING NEWS!
>
> Via the July 27, 1972 edition of The Daily Herald (Chicago):
>
> "Available to Magnavox dealers in August, Odyssey's initial price tag of
> just under $100 will include 12 different games."
>
> This was in a report about Magnavox's annual zone meeting for its dealers.
> There you go!
>
> Article is available (for pay) at newspaperarchive.com.
>
> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Philippe Dubois, association MO5.COM,
> Président <samurai at mo5.com> wrote:
>
>> **
>>
>> Thanks everyone for your answer.
>>
>> The biography of M.Baer just came out in France this month through the
>> edition "Pix'n Love", i'm sure it will be delightful to read it in details
>> ;)
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> -----------
>>
>> Cordialement,
>>
>> Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM, Président
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Aug 9, 2012 11:25 AM, "Philippe Dubois, association MO5.COM,
>> Président" <samurai at mo5.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone !
>>> How can it be possible for M.Baer, with all the respect i have for him,
>> not to know the exact date the Odyssey was publicly launch and available in
>> stores ?
>>
>> Because he had nothing to do with that. Remember, he was with Sanders.
>>
>> The Odyssey's launch, distribution, etc. was a Magnavox issue.
>>
>> What about the date when M.Baer showed up the tennis game to M.Bushnell so
>> he went into the idea of cloning this as "Pong" ?
>>
>> He didn't show anything, Magnavox did.
>>
>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> -----------
>>> Cordialement,
>>> Philippe Dubois, Association MO5.COM, Président
>>> --
>>> Maybe we just have different philosophies but I'm going to have to
>> strongly disagree here. The only thing we know as solid fact right now is
>> that sometime between May 3 and August 30, the Odyssey was in at least one
>> store. Saying "by August" is safe, I agree, but I fail to see how saying
>> the first sale was in August is any safer than saying the first sale was in
>> July. We just don't know.
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> August is safest at the moment because the ad is thus far our earliest
>> proof of a unit physically being in a store. Again, it doesn't mean it was
>> for sale - it could have been a demo unit - but even if it wasn't
>> necessarily in stock, it was likely available for order. If we have some
>> type of earlier proof a unit was in a store, we can revise the estimate.
>> That's why I personally think August is "safe" and the best available time
>> period. If someone can dig up earlier availability at a Magnavox dealer,
>> all the better...
>>
>>> ===================================================
>>> Bill Loguidice, Managing Director; Armchair Arcade, Inc.
>>> ===================================================
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>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Frank Cifaldi <fcifaldi at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Why is August the safest estimate? And do we want a "safe estimate" or
>> do we want an exact range?
>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:30 AM, Bill Loguidice <bill at armchairarcade.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think right now August is still our safest estimate, though you're
>> right, it could certainly have been released sooner. Even the ad - which at
>> least proves the system was at dealers by August - doesn't necessarily mean
>> it was for SALE in August (it's a relatively modest "come see" - you would
>> think they would advertise something so "cool" with the TVs and indicate
>> its actual availability).
>>
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