In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind. Ralph H. Baer More Quotes by Ralph H. Baer More Quotes From Ralph H. Baer What I created got abominated. Ralph H. Baer creating creation criticism People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes. Ralph H. Baer love sports life people It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does. Ralph H. Baer who like different artist Most inventions are based on some prior history. Ralph H. Baer inventions some most history When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen. Ralph H. Baer me you fun people If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life. Ralph H. Baer me army matter life Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it. Ralph H. Baer challenge home time ideas An entire generation of talented people - engineers, artists, scriptwriters, musicians, programmers - have been busy creating a whole new art form for us. The name of this new game is interactivity. Ralph H. Baer game busy people art People thought I was wasting my time and the company's money, for that matter. Ralph H. Baer money matter time people There's no way anybody could have predicted how fast this industry would take off. Ralph H. Baer fast how industry way Three cheers for the artistry of the lone designer doing his thing! Ralph H. Baer cheers doing designer three When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people. Ralph H. Baer new someone technology people I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation. Ralph H. Baer misfortune being situation born The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven. Ralph H. Baer straight going talent heaven 'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game. Ralph H. Baer simply game odyssey All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all. Ralph H. Baer outlived them friends gone That we plug in carts or CDs with megabytes of memory when only yesterday we were happy to have 64K or 128K in our Apple II and PC workhorses... that's nothing short of phenomenal. Ralph H. Baer short memory yesterday happy Pong can clearly be credited with having starting the coin-operated arcade videogame industry with a bang! Ralph H. Baer arcade having starting industry Never let an engineer try to sell his stuff. It rarely works unless you are Akio Morita. Ralph H. Baer engineer never try you Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me. Ralph H. Baer me always real ideas
