At the dawn of the television age in 1951, a young American engineer named Ralph Baer approached ... licensed the technology to Magnavox in 1971. The console, the Odyssey, arrived in shops the ...

Ralph Baer, the 91-year old inventor of the world’s first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is pretty sure his legacy is intact, despite various claimants to the honor of bringing video games ...

UPDATE, 12/7/2014, 5:25p CT: News broke this afternoon that inventor and gaming pioneer Ralph Baer passed ... the German-born Baer is the inventor of the Magnavox Odyssey, the world’s first ...

Magnavox’s console was built on technology ... that it would a signal transmitted from dozens of miles away. Ralph Baer (Odyssey’s creator) didn’t invent the RF modulator, but his use ...

was the Magnavox Odyssey. The Odyssey was invented by an electrical engineer named Ralph Baer. While many consider Nolan Bushnell, the enigmatic founder of Atari, to be the father of the video ...

That's what the pop-entertainment landscape might have looked like today without the brainchild of legendary inventor Ralph Baer, the Odyssey ... the middle of 1972 by Magnavox, before the ...

Ralph Baer, the creator of the first home video ... creating the first home device, the Magnavox Odyssey. The battery-powered console included a controller with two knobs players could twist ...

Ralph Baer, one of the unsung heroes in the history of video gaming, has died at age 92, according to Gamasutra. Baer developed the Brown Box (which became the Magnavox Odyssey) and came up with ...

"Ralph Baer had carefully documented his work," reports the National Museum of American History. "Magnavox could prove that they demonstrated Odyssey to the public in 1972 and that Bushnell had ...

The Odyssey was developed by Ralph Baer, a man who would go on to receive ... the Odyssey's tennis gameplay after trying it out at a Magnavox product showcase. This lead his burgeoning company ...

Fifty years ago today, an episode of the BBC's Tomorrow's World introduced the Magnavox Odyssey ... US The invention was the brainchild of Ralph Baer, a German-American engineer, who had been ...

The first home video game system had a lot of the right ideas, just not at the right time Drew Robarge The Magnavox Odyssey with its cover box, controllers, and carts. (2006.0102.08) NMAH In ...