{"id":15415,"date":"2011-11-08T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T09:28:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"game-console-inventor-calls-current-generation-a-disgrace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/15415-game-console-inventor-calls-current-generation-a-disgrace","title":{"rendered":"Game console inventor calls current generation a \u201cdisgrace\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20487-Ralph-Baer\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Person Information\">Ralph Baer<\/a> is the guy who basically invented home video gaming with the Magnavox Odyssey back in August 1972. He&rsquo;s also not a fan of what happened next.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think it&rsquo;s a disgrace,&#8221; he told the Salt Lake Tribune in a recent interview. &#8220;What I created got abominated. You can see the same thing in music, literature, art &mdash; any form of art.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>And grew and grew into games prominently featuring heads exploding, although it kind of stands to reason that if something keeps growing, it&rsquo;s probably going to grow up.<\/p>\n<p>In 2006, Baer was awarded a National Medal of Technology for his &ldquo;groundbreaking and pioneering creation, development and commercialisation of interactive video games&#8221;, and last year was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in Akron, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Article:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/5300-The-History-Video-Games.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"The History of Video Games\">The History of Video Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/sltrib\/lifestyle\/52850548-80\/game-baer-video-television.html.csp?page=2\">The Salt Lake Tribune<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20373-Father-of-the-game-console-calls-the-current-generation-a-&ldquo;disgrace&rdquo;\" target=\"_self\" title=\"Game console inventor calls current generation a &ldquo;disgrace&rdquo;\"><strong>Game console inventor calls current generation a &ldquo;disgrace&rdquo;<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; Comments and views<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn kids, get off my lawn!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":157,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/157"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}