Blips on a screen : how Ralph Baer invented TV video gaming and launched a worldwide obsession by Hannigan, Kate 

BTSB Prebound(Knopf, 2022)

BTSB #: 418267 Available

Dewey: 794.8092/BAges: 4-8   
Lexile: 1000 AD

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Subjects: Baer, Ralph H Video game designers - United States - Biography Inventors - United States - Biography Video games - History

Summary: A picture book biography of Jewish refugee, Ralph Baer, the pioneering inventor of home video gaming.

Jerry changed the game! : how engineer Jerry Lawson revolutionized video games forever by Tate, Don 

BTSB Prebound(Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2023)

BTSB #: 872686 Available

Dewey: 794.8092/BAges: 4-8   
AR: 5.3 LG

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Subjects: Lawson, Jerry,|d1940-2011 Video games - History Video game designers - United States - Biography Electrical engineers - United States - Biography African American engineers - Biography

Summary: Explores how Jerry Lawson, a Black engineer, revolutionized the video game industry by building a brand new kind of video game console--one that allowed players to switch out video game cartridges instead of buying new consoles for each individual video game. He also founded Video Soft, Inc., the first African American owned video game company in the country.

Ralph Baer : the man behind video games [Smithsonian little explorer, Little Inventor]by Dickmann, Nancy 

BTSB Prebound(Pebble, 2020)

BTSB #: 278106 Available

Dewey: 794.8092/BAges: 6-9   
AR: 3.5 LG Lexile: 570 F&P: P

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Subjects: Baer, Ralph H Video game developers - United States - Biography Video games - History

Summary: A biography of Ralph Baer, inventor of video games.

Video games : a graphic history [Amazing inventions (Graphic Universe)]by Tulien, Sean 

BTSB Prebound(Graphic Universe, 2021)

BTSB #: 892368 Available

Dewey: 794.8/NAges: 8-12   
AR: 4.5 MG Lexile: 720 GN

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Subjects: Video games - History Technological innovations Internet games

Summary: Video games evolved from simple consoles to cutting-edge home entertainment to some of the world's most popular apps. Find out more about the technological innovations, major players, and controversies that have made video-game history. In graphic novel format.