http://www.metafilter.com/tags/baer Posts tagged with 'baer' at MetaFilter. Wed, 16 May 2007 18:01:53 -0800 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:01:53 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/61232/Baers%2DOdyssey <a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/05/gallery_game_history">Console Portraits: A 40-Year Pictorial History of Gaming.</a> Inventor <a href="http://www.ralphbaer.com/">Ralph Baer </a>designed the <a href="http://www.classicgaming.com/museum/odyssey/">first videogame console </a>for the home. In May 1967 he played the first-ever two-player game. "I lost!" Baer notes. At times <a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/05/gallery_game_history?slide=11&slideView=8">offensive</a> and <a href="http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/07/15/news_6129301.html">controversial</a>, console videogames have survived <a href="http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/multimedia/2007/05/gallery_game_history?slide=15&slideView=6">hard times </a>to remain at the forefront of <a href="http://www.emuunlim.com/doteaters/">videogame</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_video_games">history</a>, and at times a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Theft_Auto_III">reflection of ourselves</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2007:site.61232 Wed, 16 May 2007 18:01:53 -0800 Baer console history mario pitfall pong videogames NationalKato http://www.metafilter.com/38992/The%2DBest%2DWriter%2DYou%2DDont%2DKnow <a href="http://www.willchristopherbaer.com/misc.php">Have you heard of Will Christopher Baer?</a> He writes twisty, noir fiction. His trilogy of Phineas Poe books (Kiss Me, Judas, Penny Dreadful, and Hell's Half Acre) have just been re-released, and Kiss Me, Judas was optioned for a movie. (more inside) tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.38992 Wed, 26 Jan 2005 06:03:53 -0800 authors baer detectives fiction hellshalfacre kissmejudas noir novels pennydreadful phineaspoe sometimesrachel willchristopherbaer braun_richard