At the age of 92 years died an American inventor and engineer, known as “the father of video games”. Ralph Baer, the German-born, spent his entire adult life in the United States. Where he created a device known as the Brown Box, which in 1972 was placed on store shelves as the Magnavox Odyssey – the first home game console in history.
Before Baer began work on his console was the domain of electronic entertainment arcades. Simple, poor graphics slot machine games presented enough to the young enthusiasts technologies and new forms of entertainment to draw the entire grid pennies. About playing at home, on your own terms, independently managing their own time could only dream of. Something like “game console” not yet exist. Computers were too expensive and impractical to be able to mass audience interest.
That all changed in 1972, when the sale came just Magnavox Odyssey game with Table Tennis (table tennis). It was a few months before the premiere of Pong , often mistakenly considered to be the first home-console, which gained massive popularity.
Baer’s work enabled the creation of a huge global market, the value of which is estimated at about $ 100 billion. It all began with the fact that someone thought, “why exactly the image that appears on the TV screen, you can not control?”.
Sam Baer did not finish their business to create the world’s first console. During his life he has been awarded more than 150 patents, including on popular in the 80s “laser gun”. With this device, allowing eg. To shoot the flying ducks on the TV screen, Nintendo has used the first or one of the fakes – Pegazus fashionable in Poland.
Achievements Baer, its contribution to world science and business have been widely appreciated. In 2006, he received from President George W. Bush medal National Medal of Technology , awarded for contribution to the development of important new techniques and technologies. Four years later, he was admitted to the Association National Inventors Hall of Fame , which brings together the most influential inventors in the United States.
Information about his death, said family and loved ones. Baer died at his home in Manchester, New Hampshire.
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