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Stille Wasser oder: Ralph H. Baer rockt ;)

2006/09/11

Angeregt von Platos Blog über den guten Herrn Ralph H. Baer habe ich mal die Wikipedia konsultiert und will euch das Gefundene nicht vorenthalten. Ein wenig gekürzt habe ich für euch :)

"Ralph H. Baer (born March 8, 1922) is a German-born American inventor, noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry. He invented the home console for video games.

Two months before Kristallnacht, he escaped from Germany with his family. In America he was self-taught and worked in a factory. He graduated from the National Radio Institute as a radio service technician in 1940. In 1943 he was drafted to fight in World War II.

Baer graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Television Engineering (unique at the time) from the American Television Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1949. He worked for a few electronics firms and started his own company before joining Sanders in 1958, where he stayed until retiring in 1987.

Baer is best known for leading the development of the Brown Box, the first home video game console. After being sold to Magnavox and being renamed Magnavox Odyssey, the console was released to the public in 1972. Baer, who has a background in television work, developed the system in 1966 for the defense-electronics company Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire. It was licensed to Magnavox and for a time was Sanders' most profitable line, even though many in the company looked down on game development.

Baer created the first light gun for home television use, known as the Shooting Gallery. He also invented Simon, an electronic pattern-matching game that was immensely popular in the late 1970s and 1980s. He is now partnered with Bob Pelovitz of MicroPROS Technology Solutions, and they have been inventing and marketing toy and game ideas since 1983."

Das nenne ich mal eine Vita! Und: Ohne Nazis wäre der Mr. Baer der Herr Bär und die Gaming-Konsole eine Deutsche Erfindung. Aber dann wären auch die Deutschen auf den Mond geflogen... Räusper ;)

Bild: Schaut seine Bude an. Geil, oder? :D
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drb drb
2006/09/11
... und hätten die besten wissenschaftler und meisten nobelpreise, und und und ;)) oder so ...

auf jeden fall, der typ ist cool!! ;)

Plato Plato
2006/09/11
Yep, der Typ ist echt schräg, den hatten sie bei dieser Reportage auf Premiere interviewt... ein Veteran aus dem 2. Weltkrieg als Urvater der heutigen Videospiele... echt schräg. :-)

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