So let’s celebrate Ralph Baer today.
As noted by our friends over at Retronauts (and many others), today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the man many call the father of video games, Ralph Baer. It’s hard to say, but without Baer’s work as an inventor and pioneer that developed the first video game console for the home with the Magnavox Odyssey, the industry would look very different today.
Born in Germany on 8th March 1922, Baer and his family moved to America when he was a teenager. Baer signed up to the National Radio Institute as a radio service technician, and graduated in 1940. Just three years later, he was drafted into the army to fight in World War II, where he served in military intelligence.
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