Then many competitors have emerged in freely using the patents filed by Ralph Baer. Include Atari, Nolan Bushnell and the man who has long believed that he was the inventor of Pong video game. Except that Pong was based very largely Baer work. It then spent a few years in the courts to enforce their rights. He has always managed to find a friendly settlement or win his trial. Even Nintendo had to give him a few million reluctantly.
Imagine, Ralph Baer invented in 1968, the first video game with guns which can be drawn on the screen. He is also credited with the invention of the Simon game in 1978. A game where you have to reproduce a musical and light sequence more complicated. But that’s not all! The digitization of voice or facial in video games of the 1980s, it was he.
He then participated in the creation of many toys. For example, he invented in 1987 a teddy bear can interact and talk with friends who are on a TV screen! We had to play a VHS video cassette containing a cartoon for the Pooh responds. He also invented a doormat who speaks, photo frames talking and lots of other toys …
Ralph Baer died at the age of 92 years. He lived in the same house for 55 years. And it was not the money that interested him. His biggest regret is that his wife has not had time to see the president of the United States give him the National Medal of Technology. Until the end of his life, he made only one thing: to invent. In 2015, for example, is an electronic tricycle for children that will be sold in France.
There are 5 or 6 years, I sent an email to Ralph Baer to check information. I was not certain that a man over 86 years should answer by email or know even use a computer. I had an answer in the time that followed. And we could even exchange a few emails that day. I then said that old age had nothing to do with age. I wish Ralph Baer to be at peace with his wife and friends who preceded him.
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