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Ralph Baer - The Father of Videogames?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the credit-where-credit-is-due dept.

mcgeek writes "Lauren Gonzalez interviews Ralph Baer, co-creator of Odyssey over at the High Times website. Is he the 'father of videogames?' An interesting detailed interview, with comments on graphics versus game play, patents, Odyssey, the arcade business mafia, Ping-Pong, and the games of today." Mr. Baer seems to be all over the place lately.

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  1. Enough with the question marks! by lightspawn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Video games do not have a father. They can have a "father", in which case it means whatever you want it to mean. It could be RB, it could be the person who first played pong-on-a-scope, or it could be some obscure SF writer who did a short story about them in the thirties.

    Asking the question in the title is completely meaningless.

    Mod this as a troll if you like, but I have to say it again: Question marks do not belong in article titles. If it's ask slashdot, fine, but otherwise...

    Let's try the slashdot treatment on the front page of CNN.com.

    Bidding farewell to Reagan?
    McDonald's gets low-carb Coke?
    Kimmel show pulled for comments?
    Florida drivers sue over records?

    See what I mean? It just doesn't work.

    Here, I'm posting with no karma bonus, so only two people have to mod me down to get to -1.

  2. Re:No. by johannesg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm sorry, but I have to disagree. He has been exceptionally influential and productive, but there were many years of videogaming before he ever arrived on the scene (around 1980 or so).

  3. Re:What Machine, Again? by king-manic · · Score: 2, Interesting

    When it was release 128 mb of ram would cost $671,088,640.00. memory costs.

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    "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."