Memory Lane: The Light Gun
Scott Peltz writes: "Ralph Baer is responsible, almost single handedly, for video games. So it goes, in 1966 Baer came up with the idea of interacting with a computer program on a television screen via controller. He wrote up a small paper describing his idea, and within a couple of years had a working prototype known as the Brown Box, a machine capable of playing something slightly more rudimentary than Pong. Just like that, video gaming was suddenly a thing."
