Ralph Baer , engineer popularly known as the “father” of video games, died at his home in the US city of Manchester last weekend at 92 years of age, as confirmed Yesterday his family.
In 1966, Ralph Baer came to design a “box” that would allow Americans to play on their TVs. The idea came to him while waiting at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York to a friend arrived.
“The purpose of my experiment was to create a device that could connect to any TV and play interesting games,” he wrote in his book “Video games at first” (2005).
Baer, born in Germany within a judía- family and the company he worked for, Sanders Associates, requested the first patent in 1971. The video game console that designed transformed the role of television and laid the foundations of an industry that generated billions of dollars last year.
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