Monday, December 8, 2014 – 17.11 h
Ralph Baer , considered the father of the game pet, died Saturday at his home in Manchester (New Hampshire, USA) at 92 years, reports the BBC. The German-American engineer occupies a place of honor in the history of consumer electronics through its Magnavox Odyssey , the first console to play on the TV screen, which was released in 1972.
Born in Germany in 1922, his –judía– family emigrated to the United States before World War II. In the North American country was started in electronics and worked as a radio engineer.
After the war, he developed a successful career as a electronics engineer which led him to create, in 1966, the first prototype console in which two people could compete in various games that included a primitive version of table tennis .
The invention found the back of the TV maker Magnavox , which launched in 1972 with the name Odyssey . The success was immediate, which favored the development of the first generation of consoles connected to the TV.
A slipstream of the Odyssey, Baer developed some peripheral –as the first allowing gun fire at targets that were reproduced in a pantalla– and invented several popular video games.
He also made inroads into the games with the Simon , popular in 80 and that was to repeat a sequence of colors on a board with four large buttons.
Baer , which had over 150 patents to his name, received in 2004 the National Medal of Technology, USA, and in 2010 was inducted into the Hall of Fame US Inventors. His work was vital to boost an industry like the game, which now manages billions of euros.
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