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The inventor of the videogame dies at 92.

Ralph Baer, who invented, patented and released the first television videogame console, passed away the evening of December 6 at his home in New Hampshire, WIRED has learned.

On September 1, 1966, while working as Chief Engineer For Equipment Design at defense contractor Sanders Associates, Baer wrote a four-page hand-written document detailing a “Conceptual TV Gaming Display.” Over the next few years, Baer led a team of Sanders engineers as they developed prototypes of home videogame machines, patenting the “Television Gaming Apparatus and Method” in 1969.

While other inventors, hackers, and students had experimented with creating electronic games, it was Baer’s independent invention of games that could be played on a consumer television that directly led to the creation of today’s multi-billion-dollar home videogame industry.

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