If the Wii, Playstation and Xbox traced their ancestry, the family tree would lead to Ralph Baer. In the late-1960s, Baer designed some of the first home video games, pioneering systems that enabled video games to be played on your television. He also invented Simon, another popular electronic game in the early 1980s.
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