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I wrote a 4-page Disclosure Document on 1 September 1966. It lays out the then novel concept of playing games on a standard home TV set. After building 6 successively more complex and capable game systems, the seventh was a programmable machine (the Brown Box, the original of which is now at the Smithsonian) which played ping-pong, tennis, handball, volleyball, chase games and a light-gun game. Several patents issued and Magnavox produced the first consumer product, their Odyssey game, in 197, under license to those patents.
BTW, at a Magnavox dealership demonstration (in Burlingame, CA) of The Odyssey in May of 1972, Nolan Bushnell, Atari's president at the time, played the Odyssey's ping-pong game hands-on and subsequently hired Alan Alcorn. It was Alan who designed the eminently successful Pong arcade game that first appeared in late 1972 and established Atari as the pre-eminent arcade video game producer of that period.
Magnavox went on to produce and sell 350,000 Odysseys over the next two years which effectively started the home console industry.
Anyone interested in the many documents generated during the process of developing those 7 original video game consoles can find them at this Smithsonian Institute's website:
<http://invention.smithsonian.org/resources/fa_baer_index.aspx>
All of those documents are in high-res tiff formal. That includes the 4-page original Disclosure Document. The site also contains a chronological, illustrated description of those six developmental game systems and of the Brown Box.
For more information, go to my website at <www.ralphbaer.com>
Cheers!
Ralph H. Baer
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What did Ralph baer invent?
he invented video games..
Who invented the video game console an which year?
In 1972, the first commercial video game console that could be played in the home, the Odyssey was released by Magnavox and designed by Ralph Baer The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first video game console. It was first demonstrated in May 1972 and released that fall, predating the Atari Pong home consoles by several years. The Odyssey was designed by Ralph Baer, who had a working prototype finished by 1968. This prototype, known as the "Brown Box", is now at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Who are Ralph H. Baer's parents?
Dena Whinston and James Baer
When did Ralph H. Baer die?
he hasn't yet...
What was the first game ever made?
Pacman ---- The first popular true computer came was Space Invaders which came out in 1978, Pacman wasn't released until 1980. The actual first graphical 'computer game' was a version of tic-tac-toe written in 1952 by A.S. Douglas at the University of Cambridge William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first game intended for computer use. In 1967, Ralph Baer wrote the first video game played on a television set, a game called Chase. The first arcade game called Cumputer Space was created in 1971 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The arcade game Pong was created by Nolan Bushnell a year later in 1972. Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney started Atari Computers that same year. In 1975, Atari re-released Pong as a home video game.
