Ralph Baer passed

[bob]

R.I.P.

Apparently passed peacefully in his new hampshire home. An inspiration and a legend.

[SuperGrafx]

No way!
It's a sad day for the industry.  R.I.P to the father of the modern video game.   

[esteban]

Good bye, comrade.

[Arjak]

I was just about to create a thread on this if no one else had. This is indeed a great loss for gaming. Ralph Baer's work changed my life for the better, and he will definitely be missed. Without him, I would be a very different person today.

Good luck, Mr. Baer, and Godspeed.

[HailingTheThings]

This is sad. He lived a long, fulfilling life, though, so kudos, Ralph Baer ghost*, kudos to you for making me a gamerbutt. <3

*surely watching over us now and forever. :3

[TR0N]

RIP to the father of video games.

[Nazi NecroPhile]

I bet ol' Ralph is up in heaven playing Simon with Jesus.

[Arkhan Asylum]

really had to laugh about this one.  not because it happened, but because of all the fuckin slowtards born in the mid to late 90s and later that were like

OMFG RIP RALPH BAER.

As if they'd ever actually heard of the guy before he died.

[esteban]

really had to laugh about this one.  not because it happened, but because of all the fuckin slowtards born in the mid to late 90s and later that were like

OMFG RIP RALPH BAER.

As if they'd ever actually heard of the guy before he died.

Q: What Would Baby Jesus Do?

A: Forgive them.

[cjameslv]

This guy was way before most of our times (if your in your mid 30s) unless we got some old mofos in here?...anyway most i doubt will remember him for video games. I was born in the 70's and only reason i knew of him at all was because of a documentary that came out a few years ago about video games history. Nolan bushnell and his arcade machines & atari is pretty much where everyone starts at i think. I know as a kid the arcades were where it was at. I used to live in those bitches.

[roflmao]

really had to laugh about this one.  not because it happened, but because of all the fuckin slowtards born in the mid to late 90s and later that were like

OMFG RIP RALPH BAER.

As if they'd ever actually heard of the guy before he died.

Lol, in college I created a 3D animated interactive history about him (and Nolan Bushnell, and Willy Higinbotham, among others)-- in the mid to late 90s. I spent all semester modeling, animating and coding while my classmates made shitty Flash portfolio websites. I got a C for that class and many of the others aced it. :/

[Medic_wheat]

This guy was way before most of our times (if your in your mid 30s) unless we got some old mofos in here?...anyway most i doubt will remember him for video games. I was born in the 70's and only reason i knew of him at all was because of a documentary that came out a few years ago about video games history. Nolan bushnell and his arcade machines & atari is pretty much where everyone starts at i think. I know as a kid the arcades were where it was at. I used to live in those bitches.

Same for me as I am in my mid 30s. Sigh. But once I started to read books about video game development it's history and watch various documentaries/informative YouTube shows I started to realize who this guy was!

From pong to Atari to MFing Chikie cheese! This guy had his hands in many aspects of my childhood.

[bob]

This guy was way before most of our times (if your in your mid 30s) unless we got some old mofos in here?...anyway most i doubt will remember him for video games. I was born in the 70's and only reason i knew of him at all was because of a documentary that came out a few years ago about video games history. Nolan bushnell and his arcade machines & atari is pretty much where everyone starts at i think. I know as a kid the arcades were where it was at. I used to live in those bitches.

Same for me as I am in my mid 30s. Sigh. But once I started to read books about video game development it's history and watch various documentaries/informative YouTube shows I started to realize who this guy was!

From pong to Atari to MFing Chikie cheese! This guy had his hands in many aspects of my childhood. 

LOL.   
You know it wasn't Bushnell that died, right?

[Medic_wheat]

This guy was way before most of our times (if your in your mid 30s) unless we got some old mofos in here?...anyway most i doubt will remember him for video games. I was born in the 70's and only reason i knew of him at all was because of a documentary that came out a few years ago about video games history. Nolan bushnell and his arcade machines & atari is pretty much where everyone starts at i think. I know as a kid the arcades were where it was at. I used to live in those bitches.

Same for me as I am in my mid 30s. Sigh. But once I started to read books about video game development it's history and watch various documentaries/informative YouTube shows I started to realize who this guy was!

From pong to Atari to MFing Chikie cheese! This guy had his hands in many aspects of my childhood. 

LOL.   
You know it wasn't Bushnell that died, right?

Wait am I getting my guys mixed up. Runs to google lol.

Lol oh my well the long part was "right". Yes the guy who's idea was ripped off BY bushnel lol.