Ralph Baer
Prior to Ralph Baer’s involvement in the video game industry no video games were ever released to the general public or commercialized due to the expense of the technology that was needed for these games to be played. Previous games were created with no commercial potential in mind as they were experiments in university labs. It wasn’t until 1966 when Ralph Baer came up with the idea to create a gaming system that would work on a standard television set with inexpensive materials.