Ralph Baer received the ‘National Medal of Technology’ from George W. Bush.
The man knows as The Father of Video Games, Ralph H. Baer has passed away at the age of 92 on December 6, 2014.
Baer was born on March 8, 1922 in Germany. He moved to USA before World War II. He was an inventor, engineer and video game pioneer.
In the 60s he worked on a videogame console prototype called The Brown Box. This console was later released in 1972 under the name Magnavox Odyssey.