As was determined, not only game consoles, but also game cartridges fall under the patented technology and as such require a sublicense under Magnavox.
These legal decisions enabled Magnavox to maintain a monopoly of sorts over the video gaming industry through the required sublicenses. As Sanders began receiving money from the lawsuits and Odyssey sales profits, Baer was given a new role and the title of Engineering Fellow at Sanders, which afforded him more freedom to work on projects of his choosing.
At Sanders, Baer also transformed his video gaming insights to a military context by developing a precision rifle training apparatus for military training purposes U. He furthermore partnered with a company called Coleco to help develop their game called Telstar, another ping-pong game that ran on a new chip, an AY single chip.
After working on the frequency stabilization, Baer and his team helped design new games for Coleco, making an arcade and combat game as well as their next generation Telstar Alpha game unit.
In , he also began working independently during his off-time to design and develop electronic toys and games through his newly founded consulting firm, R. Baer Consultants. He continued this work well after his retirement from Sanders in Even though most of his card designs did not make it to the market place, Hallmark kept him on salary as an outside consultant for about two and a half years.
He also developed a recording device for FTD Flowers, which allowed people to record a voice message onto a keepsake to be delivered with the flowers. Morrison, Donald K. Fletchie, and Albert G. Keller , the invention and production of single-chip, microprocessor controlled games such as Simon and Maniac the technology for which is patented under the following: U.
Morrison, U. Morrison and Jeffrey D. Breslow, and U. Throughout his life, Baer remained a passionate inventor of electronic games and toys. His invention received international acclaim and afforded him visits back to Germany later in life.
He visited Germany for the first time in to visit the Computerspielemuseum in Berlin, which he financially sponsored, to give an interview and donate one of his Brown Boxes. In Germany and elsewhere in Europe, Baer was an honored guest at gaming symposia and conferences. In , President George W.
Bush credited him as a leading innovator in the United States by presenting him with the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Social Security Death Index, [database on-line]. Baer once said. It was a smash hit and variants are still sold today. This article is more than 6 years old. In , Baer was a recipient of the National Medal of Technology. Induction Event Collegiate Inventors Event.
Back to Inductee Search Ralph H. Baer Video Games. Baer faced increasing anti-Semitism growing up. The Nuremberg Laws—a series of highly repressive measures passed in that deprived German Jews of political and social freedom—forced him to leave school at age thirteen, though he pursued his studies on his own.
Unlike so many during that time, the Baer family was fortunate to have the means to escape Germany for America months before Kristallnacht—the Night of Broken Glass—in On November 9 of that year, Nazi troops throughout Germany smashed windows of stores and homes owned by Jews and set fire to synagogues, injuring—and even killing—German citizens of Jewish decent.
These state-sponsored, anti-Jewish riots are considered to be the start of the Holocaust. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Television Engineering in and was consistently employed as an engineer afterwards. In , he joined Sanders Associates, an electronics firm that did most of its work for the military. During this same period, Baer started his own family. He and Dena Whinston married in and they had three children: sons James born and Mark born and daughter Nancy born To be closer to his family, Baer set up a lab in his basement to work on any after-hours projects.
In , Baer had an epiphany while waiting at a bus stop. He remembered how, as a new graduate in , he had proposed to the television company that employed him that they should build games into their brand of television sets to differentiate them from those of their competitors.
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