Pictorial history of vidgame consoles

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This month marks the 40th anniversary of the home video game console. Ralph Baer built the "Brown Box" (seen here) which eventually evolved into the Magnavox Odyssey of 1972. In celebration of the anniversary, Wired put together a nice gallery of images from the history of home video games.
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