Object Details
- patent holder
- Baer, Ralph H.
- inventor
- Baer, Ralph H.
- Description
- This strange-looking contraption was actually used to play an early video game.
- To play the golf game on the “Brown Box,” a prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram video game system, Baer and his colleagues mounted a golf ball on a joystick handle. This allowed the player to use a real golf club to practice his or her putting skills. Magnavox licensed the "Brown Box" and released the system as the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. Though it was never produced commercially, the golf accessory was covered with brown wood-grain, self-adhesive vinyl so that it would match the "Brown Box."
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Ralph H. Baer
- 1968
- ID Number
- 2006.0102.11
- accession number
- 2006.0102
- catalog number
- 2006.0102.11
- Object Name
- game accessory
- Physical Description
- aluminum (overall material)
- paper (overall material)
- vinyl (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 6 in x 10 1/4 in x 4 1/2 in; 15.24 cm x 26.035 cm x 11.43 cm
- Related Publication
- Baer, Ralph H.. Videogames: In The Beginning
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- Popular Entertainment
- Baer
- Family & Social Life
- Computers & Business Machines
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1302398
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ab-e722-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
