MANCHESTER, NH – Today is National Video Games Day, an occasion to celebrate an industry that has grown into a global entertainment and cultural force.
But 60 years ago, there was no video-game industry to celebrate.
On Sept. 1, 1966, engineer and inventor Ralph H. Baer committed to paper an extraordinarily simple but revolutionary idea: The television set did not have to …
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