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Ralph H. Baer, an Uncommon card
Ralph Henry Baer was a German-born American inventor, game developer, and engineer.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 74
- Power
- 147
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 48,000
Power 147 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Ralph H. Baer quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Ralph H. Baer card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
In which decade?
Through several jobs in the electronics industry, he was working as an engineer at Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire, when he conceived the idea of playing games on a television screen around ____.
Answer
1960s. Through several jobs in the electronics industry, he was working as an engineer at Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire, when he conceived the idea of playing games on a television screen around 1966. From the Ralph H. Baer article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Contemporary history. Contemporary history 81 · Physics beyond the Standard Model 76 · Ralph H. Baer 73 · Battle of Quiberon Bay 70 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Abydos, Egypt. Abydos, Egypt 85,000 · Contemporary history 62,000 · Ralph H. Baer 48,000 · Ingvar Carlsson 33,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Baer's Jewish family fled Germany just before World War II and Baer served the American war effort, gaining an interest in electronics shortly thereafter.
- Through several jobs in the electronics industry, he was working as an engineer at Sanders Associates in Nashua, New Hampshire, when he conceived the idea of playing games on a television screen around 1966.
- With support of his employers, he worked through several prototypes until he arrived at a "Brown Box" that would later become the blueprint for the first home video game console, licensed by Magnavox as the Magnavox Odyssey.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Ralph H. Baer article was read about 48,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 74: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Ralph H. Baer (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Michael Schilling, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
