Badass inventor Ralph Baer demonstrates functional home shopping, schoolwork, and videogames via cable TV in 1973. He plays his Pong videogame about six and a half minutes in and shows something I hadn’t seen before: an “English” control that lets you adjust the course of the ball in flight after you hit it. Pretty great stuff.

Video game inventor demonstrates multimedia box…in 1973

Home video game inventor Ralph Baer demonstrates the "All Purpose Box" in this rare video from nearly forty years ago, showing how even in the 1970s, video game consoles were thought to have potential beyond games.