First videogame console peripheral
- WHO
- Shooting Gallery light gun
- WHAT
- First
- WHERE
- Not Applicable
- WHEN
- 1972
Ralph Baer, the man behind the Magnavox, is also the creator of the first videogame console peripheral – the light gun that came with the Shooting Gallery game for the Odyssey in 1972. Some 80,000 units of this innovative gaming rifle were sold.