#Tech: Ralph Baer, the serial inventor who built the world's first game console
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Updated July 14, 2013 ● 332 views
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via arstechnica.com
Now a 91-year-old widower, the German-born Ralph Baer is the inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first video game console. The Odyssey is predated in the games-on-screens space only by experiments like Willy Higinbotham's Tennis for Two and the coin-op dud Computer Space.
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#Tech: Ralph Baer, the serial inventor who built the world's first game console
Updated July 14, 2013 ● 332 views
Now a 91-year-old widower, the German-born Ralph Baer is the inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first video game console. The Odyssey is predated in the games-on-screens space only by experiments like Willy Higinbotham's Tennis for Two and the coin-op dud Computer Space.