Sabertooth Posted December 8, 2014 Report Share Posted December 8, 2014 Ralph Baer, "The Father of Videogaming", passed away this weekend at the age of 92. For those that don't know, Mr. Baer created "The Brown Box" in 1970. This was a rudimentary home console that played "pong" type games. It was released by Magnavox as The Odyssey in 1972. Nolan Bushnell is widely known to have got the idea for Pong from seeing a demonstration of the Odyssey. Atari wound up retroactively licensing the technology from Magnavox to avoid a lawsuit. Baer would later create the first light gun game, the Odyssey 2 and Simon. Here are some articles on his life and passing: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/ralph-h-baer-a-father-of-video-gaming-dies-at-92/2014/12/07/a24c8964-7e6e-11e4-8882-03cf08410beb_story.html http://kotaku.com/the-father-of-video-games-ralph-baer-has-passed-away-1667980395 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RetroVideoGameNerd Posted December 8, 2014 Report Share Posted December 8, 2014 :/We'll miss you. Without you, there's no doubt we wouldn't have Video Games being as good as they are, and were even back then, too.RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RickR Posted December 9, 2014 Report Share Posted December 9, 2014 A true gentleman. R.I.P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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