{"id":293,"date":"2007-03-24T09:21:39","date_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/?p=293"},"modified":"2007-03-24T09:36:17","modified_gmt":"2007-03-24T14:36:17","slug":"benjs-ralph-baer-interview-in-this-months-game-developer-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/archives\/293\/benjs-ralph-baer-interview-in-this-months-game-developer-magazine","title":{"rendered":"<em>VC&#038;G&#8217;s<\/em> Ralph Baer Interview in This Month&#8217;s Game Developer Magazine, Gamasutra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/features\/20070323\/edwards_01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/images\/interviews\/baer_interview_1.jpg\" alt=\"Benj's Ralph Baer Interview\" class=\"alignright\" \/><\/a>Back in January, I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct an extensive telephone interview with the inventor of home video games, Ralph Baer (I&#8217;ll be writing more on him soon, so stay tuned).  That epic interview, in a much shorter form, appears in the March 2007 edition of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gdmag.com\/homepage.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Game Developer magazine<\/a>, which is available on newsstands now.  (Just to note, there is a slight factual error in the introduction of the interview about <em>Spacewar<\/em> in the print version, not written by me, but there will be a correction published next issue.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>The good news for you is that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/gamasutra.com\/features\/20070323\/edwards_01.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">much longer version of the interview up on Gamasutra<\/a> right now that you can read through online.<\/strong>  Check it out, and look for more of my interviews with computer and video game industry pioneers in the coming months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in January, I had the wonderful opportunity to conduct an extensive telephone interview with the inventor of home video games, Ralph Baer (I&#8217;ll be writing more on him soon, so stay tuned). That epic interview, in a much shorter form, appears in the March 2007 edition of Game Developer magazine, which is available on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,32,21,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-video-game-info-and-history","category-interviews","category-news-current-events","category-vcg-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vintagecomputing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}