9-year-old inventor and gaming industry veteran, Ralph H. Baer, is known as "The Father of Video Games." The man's contributed a lot to the early days of gaming, including the first video-game home console -- the Magnavox Odyssey -- almost 40 years ago.

And in a new interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Baer proudly looks back on his role in shaping the industry. Later on during the interview, however, he confesses that while games have come along way since his "little brown box," he's ashamed of how the medium has come to embrace so many violent games.

"I think it's a disgrace," Baer says. "What I created got abominated," adding that the same is true for "any form of art."

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wow, hes only 9 and was making shit 40 years ago!!! thats crazy... this kid is really talented.

i think you mean 90

Tree-hugging pussy.

Yearly releases of Call of Duty is the disgrace!!!!!

Violent games started over 2 decades ago with Doom, so he is quite late in the game lol

I was expecting you to come into this thread and say something like this to be honest.

No, he was an inventor at the age of nine, as in he had started making inventions at that age, not that he IS nine years old.

Amen, :D.

Few games have little or no form of violence. Aside from the obvious ones like shooters, horrors etc Mario jumps on enemies to kill them as well as leaving dangerous obstructions on the road whenever he goes driving and Donkey Kong goes berserk when his bananas get stolen.