Ralph Baer and His All-Purpose Boxes

"Back in the late 60s, German-born gadgeteer Ralph Baer began inventing what later became known as video games. Over the ensuing decades he would develop Pong, the rifle you could point at the screen that was the precursor to the Duck Hunt shotgun, and the germ of countless other important concepts that the gaming industry is founded on."

http://www.motherboard.tv/2009/11/16/ralph-baer-and-his-all-purpose-boxes--2