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GDC 08: Creating an Industry: Ralph Baer & Al Alcorn

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2008-02-21 18:33:18 by Destructoid.com in Destructoid - Hardcore video game blog
...Ralph Baer and inventor of Pong Al Alcorn meant the world to me. And kind of changed my life a little bit Sitting in a room with two of the biggest names in gaming history was a huge honor, to say the least. Not to be dramatic, but without these two gentlemen, none of you would be reading this blog since this Web site about an industry that...
 
Tags: gdc, alcorn, industry, -al alcorn, gdc seminar, retro videogame fans, videogame ralph baer, bad game, huge honor
 
 
 
 
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Watch Pong Creator Ralph Baer Lose At Pong

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2008-02-29 11:45:21 by Harold Goldberg in VH1 Game Break
 
...Ralph Baer, the legendary inventor of Pong and all around nice guy. But thanks to YouTube, theres a record of some of the panel. Here, he plays the game with Al Alcorn, who designed the arcade version of Pong. Of course, its quite difficult to play a video game while talking, but both gents dont seem to play all that well. I love it when Baer...
 
Tags: game developers conference, game, pong, ralph baer, video game, baer misses, panel, legendary inventor, nice guy
 
 
 
 
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Game|Life The Video, #5: Ralph Baer, Al Alcorn

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2008-03-12 16:46:33 by Chris Kohler in Wired: Game|Life
 
...Ralph Baer, inventor of the first home game system Odyssey, and Al Alcorn, designer of that seminal arcade game Pong Then, Chris Baker returns as we talk over our feelings about God of War: Chains of Olympus for PSP And yes, we are sticking with a Monday schedule. This week's delay comes courtesy of salmonella, which hospitalized our video...
 
Tags: video, ralph baer, chris baker returns, pong creators discuss, video editor, olympus, olympus sweet, videogame industry, chains
 
 
 
 
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Ralph Baer crushes Utrecht, the Netherlands mayor at Pong

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2008-06-18 00:00:00 by Jason Dobson in Joystiq
...Ralph Baer opened the event by taking the region's mayor to town in a game of Pong . The match was played on a classic 1960's era machine, and saw the father of the gaming industry defeating the mayor 2-0. Clearly, even at 86 years young, Baer can sure swing a mean paddle As one of Europe's largest gaming events, the NLGD Festival of Games...
 
Tags: pong, nlgd festival, nlgd, baer, mayor, school pong, school, games offers, games
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: Bell, Game, and Candle - 'Tall Tales About Anticipation and (Not Much) Accomplishment'

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2008-08-01 08:00:57 by Alex Litel in GameSetWatch
...Ralph Holden. Holden was on his way to examine Commodore Five as a possible outpost for the remaining human colonial population This ragtag gang of space pirates, who have these rad mechs and stuff, discovers himtechie named Zach, tough-as-nails chick named Zip and her too-cool-for-school adopted bro Zap, who is the leader. Leader quickly...
 
Tags: bleszinski, clifford michael bleszinski, clifford, game, zip, game gears, gears, zeta offers zip, video game
 
 
 
 
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Pong, 'Odyssey' Creators Team Up For GDC Session

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2007-12-20 13:11:25 by Chris Kohler in Game | Life
...Ralph Baer, creator of the first video game console "Odyssey," will team up to tell the story of the creation of their games at this year's GDC The session title? "How To Create An Industry As a young engineer, Ralph Baer was the one struck by history's random bolt of inspirational lightning when he wondered if a television could be used to...
 
Tags: pong, game, game developers conference, session, video game console, odyssey, baer, pong games, games
 
 
 
 
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What gets your motor running?

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2007-12-11 21:28:29 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...Ralph Fulton, Chief Game Designer, that "we want to make racing exciting again", which seems a little odd coming from a company that produced Dirt, arguably this year's best and most exciting racer Grid focuses on everything that happens between the start grid and the chequered flag: the drama, the rivalries, the aggression and the crashes,"...
 
Tags: chief game designer, ralph, enthuses ralph, grid, game, grid focuses, colin mcrae dirt, dirt, racer
 
 
 
 
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GDC 2008 Recommendations: Steve 'Fullbright' Gaynor's Picks

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2008-01-11 16:00:39 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Ralph H. Baer Game Design 60-minute Lecture Overview: The year was 1966. Television had a huge installed user base, but only featured a single, passive application with only a few channels. Ralph Baer decided there needed to be something more. He created the Brown Box, the world's first electronic console that enabled people to not just...
 
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GDC: Baer, Alcorn Talk 'Brown Box' Beginnings, Industry Birth

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2008-02-27 08:00:54 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...Ralph Baer and Al Alcorn at their extremely entertaining lecture Ralph Papa Game Baer and Atari VCS designer Al Alcorn split an hour to sit and reminisce about their roots how their lives and social contexts conspired for them to design and build the two seminal video game consoles Baer started off by leaping back to the late 30s, the time...
 
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