The boy who thought outside the box : the story of the video game inventor Ralph Baer / Marcie Wessels.
Crazy about Wii, Nintendo, X-Box, and PlayStation? Meet the inventor whose work made them all possible: Ralph Baer, creator of the first home video game system! Today, the video game industry keeps growing, with ever more platforms available to fans. But how did the very first system come about? This picture-book biography of Ralph Baer, whose family fled Nazi Germany for the US, introduces kids to a great inventor AND the birth of the first home console. Using wartime technology, Baer thought outside the box and transformed the television into a vehicle for gaming; Baer's invention, the Odyssey, is a precursor to the Atari gaming system. Today, interactive systems like Wii and PlayStation are descendants of Ralph's innovative ٢Brown Box,٣ making this award-winning inventor the true ٢Father of Video Games.٣
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- ISBN: 9781454932598
- ISBN: 1454932597
- Physical Description: 1 volume (unpaged) ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Sterling Pub Co Inc, 2020.
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Target Audience Note: | 5+ 740L Lexile |
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The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box : The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer
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The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box : The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer
Crazy about Wii, Nintendo, X-Box, and PlayStation? Meet the inventor whose work made them all possible: Ralph Baer, creator of the first home video game system! Today, the video game industry keeps growing, with ever more platforms available to fans. But how did the very first system come about? This picture-book biography of Ralph Baer, whose family fled Nazi Germany for the US, introduces kids to a great inventor AND the birth of the first home console. Using wartime technology, Baer thought outside the box and transformed the television into a vehicle for gaming; Baer's invention, the Odyssey, is a precursor to the Atari gaming system. Today, interactive systems like Wii and PlayStation are descendants of Ralph's innovative "Brown Box," making this award-winning inventor the true "Father of Video Games."