Ralph Baer is the guy who basically invented home video gaming with the Magnavox Odyssey back in August 1972. He’s also not a fan of what happened next.
“I think it’s a disgrace,” he told the Salt Lake Tribune in a recent interview. “What I created got abominated. You can see the same thing in music, literature, art — any form of art.
“All I did was come up with what I thought was a fun idea that was the result of a little box that was attached to a television set. It just grew and grew and grew.”
And grew and grew into games prominently featuring heads exploding, although it kind of stands to reason that if something keeps growing, it’s probably going to grow up.
In 2006, Baer was awarded a National Medal of Technology for his “groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialisation of interactive video games”, and last year was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.
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Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
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