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Pioneer of Video Games, Simon Dies at 92
Manchester, Dec 8 (AP) Ralph Baer, a video game Pioneer who created both the precursor to "Pong" and the electronic memory game Simon and led the team that developed the first home video game console, has died. He was 92. Baer, a longtime resident of Manchester, died at his home Saturday, the Goodwin Funeral Home in Manchester confirmed today.
Born in Germany, Baer escaped the Holocaust with his family. He started thinking about what later became the home video game console while working as a television set designer in the 1950s. In the next decade, he started working on television games as chief engineer for Sanders Associates, now BAE Systems.
That led to The Brown Box, which was licensed by Magnavox and came out with the Odyssey in the early 1970s. The console, which connected to a television, could play about two dozen games, including one called "Table Tennis" that was a precursor to "Pong." Baer received the National Medal of Technology from President George W.
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Bush in 2006 and was inducted into the US National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010. Before inventing the system that became known as the Magnavox Odyssey, Baer said he often was asked by co-workers how the group would make any money from the project. "People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money for that matter," he said in 2010.
"There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off." A version of The Brown Box is now at the American History Museum at the Smithsonian in Washington, DC. The Smithsonian plans to open a gallery next year with a focus on innovation and is including Baer's workshop. Baer later formed his own consulting business, through which he created or assisted in developing numerous electronic toys and games.
In Simon, still in production today, the player has to duplicate an increasingly complicated pattern of lights and sounds. Baer told The Telegraph of Nashua in 2012 that he kept inventing. He almost couldn't help it. "If you have it in your genes, it's almost like breathing," he said.
Source: PTI
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