The father of video games has passed away at 92.
Ralph Baer, widely considered the father of video games, has passed away at the age of 92.
Baer, whose family fled Nazi Germany before the Kristallnacht attacks, is credited with inventing one of the first home video game systems. What was originally called the "brown box" would later be known as the Magnavox Odyssey, released in 1972.
He is also credited with the invention of the light gun, the first video game peripheral that can be seen in later incarnations such as the famous NES Zapper.
Baer received a number of honors for his work in the video game industry, including the National Medal of Technology and induction into the National Inventors Hall of Fame.
Here is video footage of Baer demonstrating the brown box prototype in 1969:
