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Magnavox Odyssey Inventor RALPH BAER and his Legacy

Ralph Baer, the 91-year old inventor of the world's first home console, the Magnavox Odyssey, is pretty sure his legacy is intact, despite various claimants to the honor of bringing video games into the world.

In a new interview with Ars Technica, the retired engineer looks back at some of the earliest attempts to make video games, including academic experiments Tennis for Two and Spacewar, neither of which, he said, had any influence on his commercial work in the late 1960s and early 197…

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