(Fellow archivists, back me up here-when you spend an extended amount of time examining a person’s handwriting and deciphering their personal organizational system, you start to feel like you know the person, right?) As I worked on making his collection available for research use, carefully removing thousands of staples (because Ralph never used one staple when eight would do) and verifying that his carefully dated pages were in order, I realized that I was getting attached to Ralph. Ralph’s papers spanned more than 40 years of his lengthy career in the toy and game industry. He donated his professional papers to The Strong, and I had the privilege of processing them in 2013. As numerous other writers have noted, Ralph invented the “Brown Box” home video game console (produced as the Magnavox Odyssey) and the electronic game Simon. Baer had died on December 6, 2014, at the age of 92. I was deeply saddened to hear that Ralph H.
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