He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 2004. He is credited for creating the first light gun and game for home TV use which was known as Shooting gallery. Baer’s ideas resulted in the video game Pong. He is credited with co-developing the electronic games Simon and Super Simon. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2010 and donated all of his hardware prototypes and documents to the Smithsonian Institute in 2006. Ralph Baer passed away on December 6, 2014 at 92 years old.