'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.
, near the border of France, to Leo and Lotte Baer, and later raised in Cologne, an ancient Roman city on the Rhine River. "This economic disaster had social consequences as well," reports the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum."Many Germans who considered themselves middle class found themselves destitute."
His social life quickly unraveled, she said, citing Baer's private personal memoir. The boy was kicked out of school. His best friend joined the Hitler Youth. "The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box" by Marcie Wessels tells young readers the dramatic story of Ralph Baer, a German Jew who fled Nazi persecution and invented video games after being freed to pursue his talents in the United States.
Ralph Baer arrived in the U.S. in 1938 at age 16. He served in the famed military intelligence unit"The Ritchie Boys" in the U.S. Army in World War II. Video game inventor Ralph Baer, a German Jew who fled Nazi Germany, served in the U.S. Army in World War II. A note from Baer that accompanied this photo indicates he's seated second row from bottom, second from left.
He pursued his own innovations in his home workshop at nights and on weekends, many of them games. Television had reached almost every American home by 1966. Baer took another look at the idea of turning the tube into a platform for play. He approached his employer with the idea, understanding toys would be a tough sell for the military contractor.
Sanders Associates bit and agreed to support his research. He produced a working interactive console in 1967, dubbed"The Brown Box" because of its clunky design. Sales were modest. But Baer's vision proved the standard for video games to come. Proof of its potential came in the form of efforts to duplicate his technology.
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