engineer, holder of over 150 patents, talented inventor who ushered in the era of playing on a console at home.
Ralph Baer, the man who invent the first console, proved that the TV can also be used for purposes other than displaying the signal from the antenna, died on Saturday 6th December 2014, at his home in Manchester (New Hampshire). Information about his death was confirmed by the immediate family.
Ralph Baer was born in 1922 into a Jewish family in Germany. Hostile situation forced him to flee from the Nazis. Hence Baer in the early years was brought to Holland, and then moved to America, where he settled down and gave up his passion – electronics.
He made many interesting inventions – light guna, gun-shaped controller, which is considered First peripheral equipment for video game consoles, interactive game Simon, and others.
However, his greatest achievement is considered to design a system Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 – the world’s first fixed reproduction console games at home. This device was the groundwork for the further development of the video game industry as we know it today. Below you can watch a film presenting material testing Baer Brown Box in 1969, the prototype of the Magnavox Odyssey console:
The work of Ralph Baer was awarded – in 2006, US President George Bush, Baer awarded the medal “National Medal of Technology and Innovation “- the highest honor awarded in the United States for technical achievement.
His passion for virtually the end of his days – In 2008, at the annual meeting of game developers in San Francisco was awarded the Game Developers Choice Award Pioneer.
We appreciate the enormous contribution that Baer brought to the development of the video game industry. If not for him, who knows how to look consoles today’s market?
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