{"id":16167,"date":"2023-01-15T15:27:27","date_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-birth-of-video-games\/"},"modified":"2023-01-15T15:27:27","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T15:27:27","slug":"the-birth-of-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/the-birth-of-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"The Birth of Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/2011\/01\/15\/the-birth-of-video-games\/rhb3a\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-405\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-405\" title=\"Ralph Baer\" alt=\"Ralph Baer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/ab4cc__rhb3a-211x300.jpg\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhb3a-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhb3a.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>January 15, 1968<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ralphbaer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ralph Baer<\/a>, generally considered the father of the video game industry,\u00a0applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This patent eventually leads to the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magnavox_Odyssey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Magnavox Odssey<\/a>, the first home video game machine. Ralph Baer is also well-known for many other products such as the electronic game <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Simon_(game)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SIMON<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/15\/the-birth-of-video-games\/\">The Birth of Video Games<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/15\/the-birth-of-video-games\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 15, 1968 Ralph Baer, generally considered the father of the video game industry,\u00a0applies for a patent on a TV game system he designed. This patent eventually leads to the Magnavox Odssey, the first home video game machine. Ralph Baer is also well-known for many other products such as the electronic game SIMON. The Birth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1757,78,461],"class_list":["post-16167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-birth","tag-games","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}