"Father of Video Games" Ralph Baer was born in Germany and fled the Nazis as a teenager on the eve of the Holocaust. He invented the first video game in 1967.

“Father of the Video Game” Ralph Baer escaped Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany as a teen and served in the U.S. Army in WWII. After coming of age in tough times, he felt driven to bring ...

Inventor Ralph Baer. Photos courtesy the Ralph H. Baer Trust. O n July 17, 1969, German-born Ralph Baer found himself standing beside a 19-inch TV at the front of the Magnavox corporate boardroom in ...

Ralph Baer passed away on December 6. The world will remember him as the inventor of the first video game. Here at the Smithsonian, we also see him as a remarkable icon of American innovation. We are ...

I love being around inventors. I love the quality of their imaginations, but most of all, I love the kind of people they are, their personalities honed by their creative interests and life experiences ...