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. That invention sparked a revolution — one that has shaped the way humans play, and even how they interact with one another. (…) here are some of the people, titles and events that shaped four decades of video games in the home.

De Atari a la Master System, pasando por la figura de Ralph Baer, míticos anuncios de la industria o “"retratos" de alguno de los culpables de la "crisis del 83". 40 años de historia del Videojuego transformados en una divertida galería de imágenes que recoge, de forma ligera y entretenida, los pasos dados por el videojuego desde sus comienzos hasta ahora. Si buscan algo mas trabajado e igual de entretenido para profundizar, mi consejo es que se repasen los artículos de Marta Peirano y su excelente "35 años de Videojuegos y Pong"


Console Portraits, 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming [+]