Patentmania: The Golden Age of Electronic Games

The first era of computerized fun was crude, clunky...and unforgettable.

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Preprogrammed Television Gaming

Filed February 22nd, 1974

This Sanders Associates patent, credited to videogame pioneer Ralph Baer, shows games being loaded via a reel-to-reel tape recorder. Real early consoles settled on ROM cartridges as the principal form of media, thank heavens.

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