May 2007
Console Portraits: A 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming
Forty years ago this month Ralph Baer -- a German-born inventor who fled to America from fascist Germany -- built and played the first home-video game. Called the "Brown Box" the proto-console was a nondescript unit powered by D-cells and wired to a black-and-white TV. "It's obvious that no one could have foreseen what it would develop into," Baer says today.
July 2005
Retro Arcade - a photoset on Flickr
Most of these pictures were taken from projected slides - rescued from the dumpster.
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