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'Father of Video Games' Ralph Baer passes away at 92

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Ralph Baer, popularly known as "The Father of Video Games" has passed away at the age of 92 years, a report said.

Baer first started toying with the idea of playing games on a TV set in 1966 and finished his first prototype for the very first video game console, the Brown Box, in 1968. The Brown Box technology was then used to unveil the world's first commercial video game console in 1972, reported the Mashable.

He was also the creator of the first video game light gun and game. In 1978, Baer co-developed a memory game named Simon.

He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2006 for his work and inducted into the National Inventor's Hall of Fame in 2010.

 

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First Published: Dec 08 2014 | 10:57 AM IST

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