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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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