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Meet Ralph Baer - The Father of Video Games - RIP
« on: December 09, 2014, 09:05:40 am »
Saw a segment on last night's evening news about his passing.

Vice posted this documentary this morning.


Neat guy.  I hadn't heard about him before.
The segment on the evening news said while serving in the US Army he would build radios out of parts pulled from captured German mine detectors.
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Re: Meet Ralph Baer - The Father of Video Games - RIP
« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2014, 09:40:23 am »
Quote from: BadMouth on December 09, 2014, 09:05:40 am
Neat guy.  I hadn't heard about him before.

You can thank Nolan Bushnell for that.

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Re: Meet Ralph Baer - The Father of Video Games - RIP
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2014, 01:44:59 pm »
I still have some Telephone/Modem Couplers  ;D
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Re: Meet Ralph Baer - The Father of Video Games - RIP
« Reply #3 on: December 14, 2014, 05:40:15 pm »
If everyone contributed as much as he did, the world would be an awesome place.
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Re: Meet Ralph Baer - The Father of Video Games - RIP
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2014, 05:54:42 pm »
He was one of the few I would have liked to meet.

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