GAME DESIGNER

Ralph H. Baer

1922 - 2014

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Ralph Henry Baer (born Rudolf Heinrich Baer; March 8, 1922 – December 6, 2014) was a German-American inventor, game developer, and engineer. Baer's family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter. Through several jobs in the electronics industry, he was working as an engineer at Sanders Associates (now BAE Systems) in Nashua, New Hampshire, when he conceived the idea of playing games on a television screen around 1966. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ralph H. Baer has received more than 781,520 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Ralph H. Baer is the 5th most popular game designer (down from 3rd in 2019), the 1,555th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,253rd in 2019) and the most popular German Game Designer.

Ralph H. Baer is most famous for inventing the first video game console, which he called the "Brown Box." He is also credited with creating the first home video game system, the Magnavox Odyssey.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 39

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.89

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among GAME DESIGNERS

Among game designers, Ralph H. Baer ranks 5 out of 77. Before him are Shigeru Miyamoto, Hideo Kojima, Alexey Pajitnov, and Markus Persson. After him are Jeff Kinney, Gunpei Yokoi, Gabe Newell, Satoru Iwata, Satoshi Tajiri, Lizzie Magie, and Klaus Teuber.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Ralph H. Baer ranks 91. Before him are Roger Etchegaray, Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, Carlos Andrés Pérez, George Blake, and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann. After him are Abdul Razak Hussein, Yvonne De Carlo, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Salvatore Giuliano, Sven Nykvist, and Jonas Mekas. Among people deceased in 2014, Ralph H. Baer ranks 81. Before him are Menahem Golan, Siegfried Lenz, Sabah, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, and Larry Scott. After him are Joan Rivers, Gottfried John, B. K. S. Iyengar, Run Run Shaw, Riz Ortolani, and Mike Nichols.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ralph H. Baer ranks 1,555 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828), Maria Reiter (1911), Heinrich Füger (1751), George, Duke of Brunswick-Calenberg (1582), Arnold Janssen (1837), and Helmuth James von Moltke (1907). After him are Ottmar Walter (1924), Philipp Franz von Siebold (1796), Carl Ludwig Willdenow (1765), Joos van Cleve (1485), Leo Frobenius (1873), and Julius Schaub (1898).

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Among GAME DESIGNERS In Germany

Among game designers born in Germany, Ralph H. Baer ranks 1. After him are Reiner Knizia (1957).

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