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Title: TIL: Ralph Baer Was Responsible for Digitizing the faces in JOURNEY
Post by: mrdude on December 11, 2014, 10:59:25 pm
Heads up John!  I'm not sure if you knew this, but Ralph Baer (father of video games) was responsible for digitizing the faces of some celebrities. The last one he did was for an arcade game called Journey.

http://youtu.be/5lndyruZSok?t=9m58s



Title: Re: TIL: Ralph Baer Was Responsible for Digitizing the faces in JOURNEY
Post by: knaagi on December 12, 2014, 05:36:57 am
I´m sure he is aware  ;)

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8242 (http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8242)


Title: Re: TIL: Ralph Baer Was Responsible for Digitizing the faces in JOURNEY
Post by: mrdude on December 12, 2014, 10:20:47 pm
Doh...I'm always late to the party!