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==Gaming career== He patented a game similar to [[Pong]], partnered with [[Magnavox]] to create the first console, and displayed it at a trade show, where it inspired [[Nolan Bushnell]] of [[Atari]] to create [[Pong]]. They later sued him him and won. Bushnell says today that he was not impressed by Baer's games, but the video game technology. He eventually went on to invent [[Simon]], that electronic toy where you try and memorize a series of button presses that get progressively harder. There is some controversy on the title of "father of video games". While Baer has the patent, some dispute that [[William Higinbotham]], who created a pong-like game that was played on the oscilloscope called ''Tennis for Two'', was the first true inventor of the video game.
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