Ralph Baer created the first game console that can be connected to your home TV. The console called the Magnavox Odyssey appeared on the market in 1972. CNBC writes that the invention gave rise to the industry worth $ 100 billion.
The first system to the game cost $ 100 the first year and has sold 100 thousand. copies. Odyssey pointed the way corporations such as Atari, Nintendo, Sony or Microsoft. Research firms predict that in the next year, the entire industry reached 111 billion US dollars.
Ralph Baer is not only known as the inventor of the first console – had a total of more than 150 different patents. He died at his home in New Hampshire.
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