Ralph Henry Baer was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer.
Baer in 2009
Baer addresses the first annual Gametronics Conference in San Francisco in 1977.
Baer working on a Brown Box reproduction in 2010
Baer (left) receives the National Medal of Technology from President George W. Bush (right) in 2006.
A home video game console is a video game console that is designed to be connected to a display device, such as a television, and an external power source as to play video games. While initial consoles were dedicated units with only a few games fixed into the electronic circuits of the system, most consoles since support the use of swappable game media, either through game cartridges, optical discs, or through digital distribution to internal storage.
A collection of home video game consoles, arranged in chronological order from bottom to top, at The Finnish Museum of Games, Tampere