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Title: The Boy Who Thought Outside the Box Condition: New EAN: 9781454932598 ISBN: 9781454932598 Publisher: Sterling Format: Hardback Release Date: 12/05/2020 Item Height: 276mm Item Length: 216mm Author: Marcie Wessels Illustrator: Beatriz Castro Contributor: Beatriz Castro (Illustrated by) Language: English Subtitle: The Story of Video Game Inventor Ralph Baer Country/Region of Manufacture: US Book Series: People Who Shaped Our World Genre: Children's Reference Description: 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.”
Release Year: 2020
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