Ralph H. Baer is a video game pioneer, inventor, and engineer known as "The Father of Video Games" who is noted for his many contributions to games and the video game industry.
In 2006, he was awarded the National Medal of Technology for inventing the home console for video games and spawning the video game industry.
He held more than 150 patents.
He helped to develop the Simon electronic game.
His family fled Germany before WWII and emigrated to the United States. As a teenager, he got into electronics and trained as a radio service engineer. He became an electrical engineer.