Writer: Nestor Luis Garrido
Composer: Daniel Jimenez
Starring: Ralph H. Baer, William H. Harrison
More info: IMDb
Plot: This is the story of a German-Jew that escapes from the persecution of the Nazis in Germany in World War II. He arrives in the USA., studying and working as an engineer of TV at Sander & Associates. He then creates the concept of video-games on September 1, 1966 and materializes the first prototype of a home video-game console called The Brown Box, which is then transformed into the Odyssey Magnavox, the first home video-game console that appeared for the first time in the commercial market on May 3, 1972.
My rating: 6.5/10
Will I watch it again? No.
Albeit dryly produced, this informative documentary about Baer's groundbreaking creation of the first home video console is interesting, plus you're getting it straight from the horse's mouth. It's only 40 minutes which feels about right for this. You get to see lots of early concepts as well as hearing from his collaborator, Bill Harrison who helped with the outer box and who also invented the light gun (very cool). It's not going to blow you away with any bells and whistles but you'll learn a little bit. The quality of the film feels like an early 90s VHS teaching video with the narration and all.
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