Ralph Baer has passed away

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http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/23173...s_away.php

The person who helped develop the Magnavox Odyssey console and the light gun, has passed away yesterday. 

[Psychospacecow]

Gentlemen, a great man of the nation has been lost today.

It is important to understand the significance this man has had on our industry and the luck that we ever had him.
Ralph H. Baer was born on March 8th, 1922 in Germany. His father worked in a factory making shoes.
His family is Jewish. Two months before The Kristallnacht, The Baer family fled Germany to The United States. In America, he taught himself what he knew and worked in a factory until graduating from The National Radio Institute. In 1943, he was drafted to work for military intelligence at the US Army HQ in London. In 1949, he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Television Engineering. He designed and built epilators, muscle-toning machines, surgical cutting machines among numerous other pursuit working for IBM, Loral Electronics, Transitron Inc., Sanders Associates until 1987. He is responsible for The Brown Box, The Light Gun and The Magnavox Odyssey.

He didn't have to do what he did. He escaped the grasps of Nazi Germany when many of his fellow countrymen could not. He pioneered and succeeded where others fell for more than 30 years. He was a success in multiple facets that affect our daily lives in ways that we don't even realize, and for all he's done and all we will do because of him, I salute Ralph H. Baer. A survivor, a soldier, a hero, a pioneer, a legend.

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Man, what a guy.

I remember reading about his recently, I didn't think he'd go as soon as he did.

Let's hope he's cooping vidya with God in Heaven ;_;7