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08-12-2014, 15:24
<table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="7" style="vertical-align:top;"><tr><td width="80" align="center" valign="top"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFe_8qWzLskXGMCi4AEmzsifFWG1Q&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=ztCFVJCaO7OUigaC9IDQCg&url=http://www.cnet.com/news/ralph-baer-father-of-home-video-game-console-dies-at-92/"><img src="//t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQJx-_YmSjYS34Ar2f9ujoy80jiDCZDbJG2abMEmkKa3T1gyeZuIpD7 nDVCEZ6Ru1tBWbFSYXII" alt="" border="1" width="80" height="80"><br><font size="-2">CNET</font></a></font></td><td valign="top" class="j"><font style="font-size:85%;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br><div style="padding-top:0.8em;"><img alt="" height="1" width="1"></div><div class="lh"><a href="http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=t&fd=R&ct2=en_ie&usg=AFQjCNFe_8qWzLskXGMCi4AEmzsifFWG1Q&clid=c3a7d30bb8a4878e06b80cf16b898331&ei=ztCFVJCaO7OUigaC9IDQCg&url=http://www.cnet.com/news/ralph-baer-father-of-home-video-game-console-dies-at-92/"><b>Ralph Baer, father of home video game console, dies at 92</b></a><br><font size="-1"><b><font color="#6f6f6f">CNET</font></b></font><br><font size="-1">Priced at $100, the Odyssey sold nearly 100,000 units in 1972, five years before the <b>Atari 2600</b> video game console took the gaming world by storm. While Baer admitted in a 2011 interview that at the time he could not foresee the revolution his <b>...</b></font><br><font size="-1" class="p"></font><br><font class="p" size="-1"><a class="p" href="http://news.google.ie/news/more?ncl=dhFIf-0eptptqGM&authuser=0&ned=en_ie"><nobr><b></b></nobr></a></font></div></font></td></tr></table>

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