Ralph H Baer Quotes

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity.
By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
Going back to the technical track of my life, note that I have been designing electronic products, both of the consumer and defense electronics variety, since Pluto was a pup. Many of these products broke new ground... creativity at work!
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
Most inventions are based on some prior history.
Never let an engineer try to sell his stuff. It rarely works unless you are Akio Morita.
People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money, for that matter.
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
Pong can clearly be credited with having starting the coin-operated arcade videogame industry with a bang!
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal.
The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Ralph H. Baer
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BirthDate
08 March, 1922
DeathDate
06 December, 2014
Country
Germany
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