{"id":216,"date":"2006-06-28T08:32:41","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T06:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=216"},"modified":"2007-06-02T11:52:01","modified_gmt":"2007-06-02T09:52:01","slug":"ralph-h-baer-at-computerspielemuseum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=216","title":{"rendered":"Ralph H. Baer at Computerspielemuseum"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President George W. Bush presents a National Medal of Technology, Monday, Feb. 13, 2006 to Ralph H. Baer of Manchester, N.H., during ceremonies in the East Room of the White House. Baer was honored for his groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialization of interactive video games. White House photo by Eric Draper
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Yesterday night Andreas Lange of the Computerspielemuseum<\/a> showed a video of a visit of Ralph H. Baer<\/a> on June 16 in Berlin<\/a>.
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\nRalph Baer is an engineering pioneer and inventor of numerous Computergames. He was recently awarded the “National Medal of Technology” <\/a> for his inventions (see image above). He is reckoned as the inventor of game consoles. His inventions led in 1972 to the first console called Odyssey. The Tennis game on that console gave way to the invention of the pong game of Atari in the same year. <\/p>\n

It was the first time since May 1938 that he visited Germany, the country were he was born and which he had to leave when he was 16. Talking about nazis and Germany’s past he expressed his discomfort with state control and total surveillance. In this context he also showed concern about the current tendencies in US politics. <\/p>\n

His stories are very interesting and vivid. He is emanating the old engineering\/inventor spirit and he is well aware of the fact that this spirit rather belongs to old times. He asserted that nowadays engineering tasks usually mean that you are a little wheel in a big industry and that this fact may also be a reason, why not so many people like to study engineering anymore.<\/p>\n

I hope that Andreas can make the video documentation available online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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