Game site Gamasutra has a fantastic interview up with Father of Video Games Ralph Baer. Besides developing Pong, he also created the first commercial console (the Magnavox: Odyssey) and was the brains behind the first light gun. What does he think of today's games? Says Baer:

I don't play. Recently, one of my grandsons brought an Xbox with him, and we played a race game. Well, I couldn't manage that damn thumb joystick. I was always hitting the walls. I couldn't steer the car worth a damn. After about fifteen minutes, I said "Forget it , I've had enough."

But, what about the PlayStation 2? Everybody just loves the PS2.

More recently, somebody played a PS2 game with me — some kind of a game where you sail some kind of a boat. And I was always hitting the docks and the obstacles — just couldn't really control the stuff. At this age, my reflexes are much too slow. My eyeballs don't work as well as they used to, so I can't play those games.

You'd think Nintendo would've sent the 85 year-old Baer a free Wii by now. He's their new demographic. Brian Ashcraft

Baer Interview [Gamasutra via Insert Credit]

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