People love video games because they do things they obviously can't do in real life. That's especially true with sports games because fans love to step into the shoes of their favorite athletes.
- Ralph Baer
Love, Sports, Obviously, Athletes
By and large, I'm in the same boat as other inventors. If we're lucky, of the 10 or 15 items we do a year, maybe one or two of them wind up with a licensing agreement.
- Ralph Baer
Lucky, Other, Agreement, Boat
When technology is ready for something novel, when the components needed to build something new become affordable, it is going to be done by someone and more likely by several people.
- Ralph Baer
New, Affordable, Likely, Novel
Coming up with novel ideas and converting them into real products has always been as natural as breathing for me.
- Ralph Baer
Natural, Always, Been, Novel
All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.
- Ralph Baer
Friends, Them, Outlived, All My Friends
When you built television sets, you have all this test equipment. And you'd have all these lines and squares on the screen to test it. So it occurred to me that it might be fun for people to control the lines and squares on the screen.
- Ralph Baer
Test, Sets, Occurred, Squares
I had the misfortune of being born in a horrendous situation.
- Ralph Baer
Born, Misfortune, Had, Horrendous
Most inventions are based on some prior history.
- Ralph Baer
Some, Most, Based, Prior
For me, inventing video games was just one successful thing I had done among many others.
- Ralph Baer
Had, Video, Many, Successful
When you get to be over 80, your coordination goes to hell and a half.
- Ralph Baer
Goes, Over, Half, Coordination
The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
- Ralph Baer
Going, Straight, Curve, Heaven
If I learned anything from the Army, it was about being able to get things done, no matter how tough the assignment, and it served me later in life.
- Ralph Baer
About, Being, Learned, Assignment
There's nothing in the Bible that says, 'You must play video games.'
- Ralph Baer
Bible, Play, Nothing, Video Games
Perhaps at some time in the future, when you ask a friend to come up and look at your etchings, you will plug in your collection of video art.
- Ralph Baer
Art, Will, Some, Perhaps
Coming up with ideas isn't hard. The real challenge is finding the time to actually build something and then finding a home for it.
- Ralph Baer
Ideas, Real, Then, Finding
In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
- Ralph Baer
Mind, Thoughts, Using, Ordinary
'Pong' is simply a knockoff of the Odyssey Ping-Pong game.
- Ralph Baer
Game, Simply, Odyssey
It's like I'm basically an artist. I'm no different from a painter who sits there and loves what he does.
- Ralph Baer
Artist, Like, Loves, Basically
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