Simon in Smithsonian
We gay gamers have a lot of thanking to do to a guy who escaped the Nazi’s and was the father of all things video games. Ralph H. Baer created, according to Smithsonian Magazine:
Voice-activated intercom (1949); the first lightgun video game (1967); an interactive video quiz game (1968); a talking aircraft altimeter (1969); a programmable remote record changer (1975); a hand-held gaming machine (1980); a talking bicycle speedometer and odometer (1996); and even a recordable talking doormat, the Chat Mat.
But all you need to know is that the guy created Simon and Pong. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History collected an early version of Simon recently, along with other inventions of Baer’s.
Baer told the Smithsonian, “Coming up with ideas isn’t hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something, and then finding a home for it.’’
Alexander
Posted to Video Games on 29 August 2006
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we really owe him a LOT.
haha i used to be a Simon addict when i was a kid!!
:D