The Brown Box Lightgun, 1967–68
- Description
- This toy gun proves that target-shooting games were part of video game history from the very beginning.
- This lightgun was used to play the Target Practice game on the “Brown Box,”[hyperlink] a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Magnavox licensed the Brown Box and released the system as the Magnavox Odyssey[hyperlink] in 1972. The lightgun and four target games were later sold as a separate expansion package.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- lightgun
- Date made
- 1967-1968
- patent holder
- Baer, Ralph H.
- inventor
- Baer, Ralph H.
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 2 1/2 in x 26 in x 6 in; 6.35 cm x 66.04 cm x 15.24 cm
- ID Number
- 2006.0102.06
- catalog number
- 2006.0102.06
- accession number
- 2006.0102
- subject
- Computers & Business Machines
- Family & Social Life
- Popular Entertainment
- Baer
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- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Baer
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center
- Credit Line
- Ralph H. Baer
- Related Publication
- Baer, Ralph H.. Videogames: In The Beginning
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