<![CDATA[Kotaku: Ralph Baer]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Ralph Baer]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/ralph baer http://kotaku.com/tag/ralph baer <![CDATA[The World's First True Shooting Game]]> While Nintendo was a pioneer of video game light guns, first for its elaborate shooting parlours and then its Zapper for the NES, it didn't create the first home version of the technology. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5815694&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Father Of Video Games Fled The Nazis, Fought Them Then Took All Their Guns]]> Ralph Baer is widely acknowledged to be the "father of video games", thanks to his work in the 1960's pioneering the device that would become the Magnavox Odyssey, the world's first ever video game console. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797942&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Classy Documentary Charts the Early History of Video Games]]> Playing the Revolution is an upcoming documentary series by Italian outfit Junk Food, which chronicles "the Spacewar! milestone to the rise of the 16-bit era". More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5797574&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Man Who Invented Home Video Games Knew His Guns]]> The man who invented home video games may have known more about real guns than any other game creator in history. But, he tells Kotaku, that's not why the first game console had a gun. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5628722&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Incoming Class of the International Video Games Hall of Fame]]> The International Video Games Hall of Fame inducts its first class in August. Located in Ottumwa, Iowa, known for its ties to the gaming's early arcade days, the Hall will enshrine more twice as many high score champions as developers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5589762&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Say Thank You To This Guy For Video Game Consoles.]]> Thank you. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5507939&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Happy 40th Birthday, Videogames!]]> Today marks the 40th anniversary of the first two-player TV game competition between two Sanders Associates engineers, Ralph Baer and Bill Harrison, on the early prototypical game known as "Bucket Filling Game." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=260679&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Father of Video Games "Had Enough" of New Fangled Gaming]]> 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: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=246968&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Clip: Bushnell on Rasberry Mojitos]]> Nolan Bushnell hits Game Head to talk UWink, Atari and the current state of the industry. My favorite part: When he smack talks Ralph H. Baer, saying the man behind the first Pong, light gun and Simon wasn't very good at invention and that "nobody uses his stuff." More »
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