+ VIDEO – It was invented in the early 70s the first ping pong games used on any TV screen. But also the musical memory game Simon. Ralph Baer died during the weekend
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It was unknown to the public, yet without it millions of people could probably not spend long hours in front of a screen to build cities, delving into the battles of the Second World War or much fighting zombies or rabbits. Died at 92 years, Ralph H. Baer was considered the father of video games. It was he who had the idea to transform a CRT TV screen game console by plugging him two analog sticks.
Ralph Baer is not, however, remained This single invention and should it be as one of the leading designers of Simon musical memory game. And he also helped design many use of technology in the world of video games, such as scanning faces or voices. While its latest invention, an electronic tricycle for children, is expected on the French market in 2015. In total, Ralph Baer filed throughout his life more than 150 patents. Retired since 1987, he now exerted a consulting business.
The “Brown Box” becomes “Odyssey”
But it’s good for his first game invention, first dubbed “box brow” and “Odyssey” during its launch in 1972 by Magnavox, Ralph Baer will probably remain in the memories. The invention indeed is known to all and offers while two games particularly simple form: a ping pong game and a handball game.
If 130,000 copies of the first console will be sold in the United States the first year, is initially Atari that will draw the most profit by launching soon after a game called Pong. Marketing will be worth Atari being attacked for plagiarism by Ralph Ralph and Magnavox. The latter will win the trial and later Magnavox Company systematically attack those who come out too close to Odyssey of the mind games. Developed in the late 80s, the president of Nintendo, ironisera explaining that “Magnavox is not video games, but the trial”
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Arriving in the US in 1938
His real name Rudolf Heinrich Baer, he was born March 8, 1922 and had fled the Nazis in 1938 and settled in the United States. After following a correspondence course, he repairs radios before being assigned to military intelligence and sent to Europe. At the end of hostilities, returning to the United States, he worked in several technology companies including a television manufacturer.
When he got the idea for his first game in 1966, he was employed by Sanders and Associates, which produced components for military surveillance devices (anti-submarine systems and electronic anti-radar.). He then led a department of 500 people
End of Summer 66, in Manhattan
And of course, the birth of the first video game has its own urban legend. It was at the end of the summer of 1966, while he was sitting outside a Manhattan bus terminal and waited a colleague Ralph Baer had the idea of his playing. He then started detailing the idea, on a yellow notebook using a No. 2 pencil. It came out a memo of 4 pages, detailing a “game box” that allowed people to have fun with action games or sport on any US television screen
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Her employer, Sanders and Associates, which produced components for the armed monitors, allocates $ 2,000 financing and two employees to develop his idea. Ralph Baer filed its first patent video game (bringing the number 3,728,480) in March 1971. It was granted in April 1973 although Odyssey was marketed from the summer of 1972.
William A. Higinbotham, the other father of video games
Paternity trials are commonplace in the world of inventions. The title “father of video games” was long attributed to Nolan Bushnell “inventor of the game” Pong “, which is actually inspired by the” Brown Box “. However, the title of” father of the video game “now attributed Ralph Baer is also challenged by some who recall that in 1958 a university named William A. Higinbotham creates an interactive game called “Tennis for Two” which will then be presented to the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton on Long Island.
asked about this other invention, Ralph Baer has always said not to have been aware. But unlike the game of Ralph Baer, of William Higinbotham was not used on a TV.
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