What was the first home video game console?

There's a reason Ralph H. Baer earned the title "The Father of Video Games." In 1972, he beat everyone to the punch when Magnavox released the Odyssey. For a hundred bucks, you got a white box that hooked up to your TV and displayed the most basic graphics imaginable. We're talking two white rectangles that served as paddles and occasionally a square that was supposed to be a ball. If that sounds like Pong, you're right. Nolan Bushnell at Atari saw Baer's tennis game and created Pong for arcades in 1972, then brought it home in 1975. The real genius was in Magnavox's accessories. The system came with dice, cards, and play money like some weird hybrid between electronics and board games. Even if their execution involved more arts and crafts than most people expected from their electronics, Magnavox cracked the code on living room gaming and kicked off the first generation of consoles.