Meet the American who invented video games, Ralph Baer, a German Jew who fled Nazis, served US Army in WWII
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"Father of Video Games" Ralph Baer was born in Germany and fled the Nazis as a teenager on the eve of the Holocaust. He invented the first video game in 1967.
Ralph Baer invented video games. "Moving to America was magic to my dad." — Mark Baer "I think he was inspired by his loneliness. Later in life he saw video games as a way to bring people together." — Marcie Wessels, author "The minute we played ping-pong, we knew we had a product." — Ralph Baer "So the first thing I don’t do is call it a toy. But I can call it gaming." — Ralph Baer "His greatest legacy is resilience. He learned from his childhood that he could make something essentially from nothing." — Mark Baer Kerry J. Byrne is a lifestyle reporter with Fox News Digital.
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