{"id":191,"date":"2017-07-27T09:21:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T23:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/ralph-baer-video-game-inventor\/"},"modified":"2017-07-27T09:21:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T23:21:00","slug":"ralph-baer-video-game-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/ralph-baer-video-game-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ralph Baer &#8212; Video Game Inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/83ThW_HjtBg\" width=\"440\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> <b>Thanks to Stephen G7VFY for alerting us to this very nice video. Ralph Baer did pioneering work in video games. It is fun to see him in his workshop. He obviously has a variant of The Knack. Stephen hinted at a reference to &#8220;noodling&#8221; but I didn&#8217;t hear it &#8212; perhaps Stephen meant that the whole thing was about what we&#8217;d call noodling. I found the box on his bench labeled &#8220;Wire Wrap Materials&#8221; kind of ominous &#8212; remember our April 1 announcement about the launch of the new &#8220;Wire Wrap Rap&#8221; podcast?<\/b><\/p>\n<p> <b>I liked Ralph&#8217;s summary comment about how these days he just has fun building things.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to Stephen G7VFY for alerting us to this very nice video. Ralph Baer did pioneering work in video games. It is fun to see him in his workshop. He obviously has a variant of The Knack. Stephen hinted at a reference to &#8220;noodling&#8221; but I didn&#8217;t hear it &#8212; perhaps Stephen meant that the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2017\/07\/27\/ralph-baer-video-game-inventor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ralph Baer &#8212; Video Game Inventor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,14,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knack-stories","category-video","category-workbench"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}