The Brown Box Lightgun, 1967–68
date: label: Date made
content: 1967-1968
name: label: patent holder
content: Baer, Ralph H.
label: inventor
content: Baer, Ralph H.
notes: label: Description
content: This toy gun proves that target-shooting games were part of video game history from the very beginning.
label: Description
content: This lightgun was used to play the Target Practice game on the <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1301997">“Brown Box,”</a> a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system. Magnavox licensed the Brown Box and released the system as the <a href="http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_1302004">Magnavox Odyssey</a> in 1972. The lightgun and four target games were later sold as a separate expansion package.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Popular Entertainment
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content: Baer
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content: Computers & Business Machines
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Baer, Ralph H.. Videogames: In The Beginning
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Ralph H. Baer
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2006.0102.06
label: catalog number
content: 2006.0102.06
label: accession number
content: 2006.0102
objectType: label: Object Name
content: lightgun
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 1/2 in x 26 in x 6 in; 6.35 cm x 66.04 cm x 15.24 cm