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Console generation 1 · 1978–1978
Magnavox Odyssey² won it. Across all 1 machines the generation sold 2.0 million units. No Game of the Year award in this database was handed out before 1990, so this generation sits entirely outside the award record.
This generation ran to 1978, and the earliest Game of the Year award we can source anywhere is from 1990. The zero is the edge of the record, not a statement about these machines — the awards of that era were printed in magazines that were never transcribed. Why so little survives from before 2000 →
| Console | Maker | Released | Units | GOTY awards on it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Magnavox Odyssey² | Magnavox/Philips | 1978 | 2.00M | 0 |
A game that shipped on three machines of this generation is counted for all three, because the question is how much award-winning software each box could play — not which console had it exclusively.
Updated 2 October 2026 · Source: the Meta Awards database, where every award row cites where it was published.