Magmavision2000

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So I was looking at a German thread about Pong consoles, and one user claimed that Nintendo sold the Odyssey in Japan and made the plastic housing for the rifle peripheral. Can anyone confirm this? If so, are there any surviving examples?
- July 21, 2020
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2. bluejay
  
  Edit: Did some searching online and it does seem that Nintendo did acquire the rights to sell the odyssey in Japan, around 1974. There are very few websites that do say that, and none of them are super credible, but I have yet to find an article that says that it didn't happen. However I did find out that Nintendo sued Magnavox to try and invalidate Ralph Baer's patents for the video game, but lost. However this happened in 1985 so Nintendo had good reason to, regardless on whether they partnered with Magnavox more than a decade ago.
  
  July 21, 2020
  
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3. masschamber
  
  this probably would have been easier to research pre mario odyssey
  
  July 21, 2020
  
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4. joeatari1
  
  Ich bin ein Berliner!
  
  July 21, 2020