T.V. in Detroit

[jcole]

$429 for a 19" TV [[cathode ray, not even cable-ready in those days). Yikes

Yeah, but it included games, man.

[msamslex]

Yeah, but it included games, man.

I've got an Odyssey game unit and many of the games but not the t.v. Didn't even know it came installed on Magnavox tv sets.

[Gannon]

Curious, since $1,500 is about the average price for a GOOD High Definition Television in the slightly-larger-than-average size nowadays, too.

Remember, back then it was a leap to get one that huge...only a decade earlier, your family was envied for getting one with COLOR!

[ndavies]

Curious, since $1,500 is about the average price for a GOOD High Definition Television in the slightly-larger-than-average size nowadays, too.

Remember, back then it was a leap to get one that huge...only a decade earlier, your family was envied for getting one with COLOR!

What do you mean a decade earlier? My family got it's first color TV just a couple of years before then. It was a monsterously large 25 inch Zenith. Color TV's were still very expensive and a luxury over the much more common B/W at that time.

[mtm49269]

Around that time , I had a smaller TV that had built in games like pong and basketball. Pretty simple but it seemed cool at the time.

[MCP-001]

Yeah, but it included games, man.

Magnavox, Magnavox, Magnavox...

Wasn't that one of those old 4-bit video games???

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